Core Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

Please respond with ideas or relevant experiences that you have that will address this conundrum:

In my library, two long-term catalogers are getting ready to retire on the same day.  In order to replace them and hire new catalogers, I need to justify that the positions are needed both to my director and to the administration.  Open positions are not currently being filled due to budgetary constraints, so it will take some extraordinary justification.  My director is hinting that at least one of those positions might be moved to public service, where it is easier to make a case for hiring a full-time librarian because there, they would be working directly with the students.  What concrete ideas do you have to help me justify keeping the two cataloging positions in my department and filling them with full-time librarians?

If you are facing a different conundrum and would like to mine the experience of this interest group, please send a brief description to rbuser@cscc.edu.

Thanks for your input,

Robin Buser

Chair, CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

rbuser@cscc.edu

Please respond with ideas or relevant experiences that you have that will address this conundrum:

In my library, two long-term catalogers are getting ready to retire on the same day.  In order to replace them and hire new catalogers, I need to justify that the positions are needed both to my director and to the administration.  Open positions are not currently being filled due to budgetary constraints, so it will take some extraordinary justification.  My director is hinting that at least one of those positions might be moved to public service, where it is easier to make a case for hiring a full-time librarian because there, they would be working directly with the students.  What concrete ideas do you have to help me justify keeping the two cataloging positions in my department and filling them with full-time librarians?

If you are facing a different conundrum and would like to mine the experience of this interest group, please send a brief description to rbuser@cscc.edu.

Thanks for your input,

Robin Buser

Chair, CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

rbuser@cscc.edu

Hello Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group!

Please take a few minutes to respond to the February conundrum if you have any thoughts on what this librarian could do.  You don't need to have a complete solution or a well-crafted post.  An informal response with your thoughts on the topic will be much appreciated.

I am also seeking a conundrum to post for March, so if there is a challenge that you are facing, please send me a brief description.

I look forward to the help that I know this group can provide.

Robin Buser

Chair, CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

rbuser@cscc.edu

Please respond with ideas or relevant experiences that you have that will address this conundrum:

In my library, two long-term catalogers are getting ready to retire on the same day.  In order to replace them and hire new catalogers, I need to justify that the positions are needed both to my director and to the administration.  Open positions are not currently being filled due to budgetary constraints, so it will take some extraordinary justification.  My director is hinting that at least one of those positions might be moved to public service, where it is easier to make a case for hiring a full-time librarian because there, they would be working directly with the students.  What concrete ideas do you have to help me justify keeping the two cataloging positions in my department and filling them with full-time librarians?

If you are facing a different conundrum and would like to mine the experience of this interest group, please send a brief description to rbuser@cscc.edu.

Thanks for your input,

Robin Buser

Chair, CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

rbuser@cscc.edu

Hello Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group,

This is your weekly reminder to please take just a few minutes to respond to the February Conundrum and help out a fellow librarian.

Thanks!

Robin Buser

Chair, CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

rbuser@cscc.edu

Hello Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group!

Please take a few minutes to respond to the February conundrum if you have any thoughts on what this librarian could do.  You don't need to have a complete solution or a well-crafted post.  An informal response with your thoughts on the topic will be much appreciated.

I am also seeking a conundrum to post for March, so if there is a challenge that you are facing, please send me a brief description.

I look forward to the help that I know this group can provide.

Robin Buser

Chair, CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

rbuser@cscc.edu

Please respond with ideas or relevant experiences that you have that will address this conundrum:

In my library, two long-term catalogers are getting ready to retire on the same day.  In order to replace them and hire new catalogers, I need to justify that the positions are needed both to my director and to the administration.  Open positions are not currently being filled due to budgetary constraints, so it will take some extraordinary justification.  My director is hinting that at least one of those positions might be moved to public service, where it is easier to make a case for hiring a full-time librarian because there, they would be working directly with the students.  What concrete ideas do you have to help me justify keeping the two cataloging positions in my department and filling them with full-time librarians?

If you are facing a different conundrum and would like to mine the experience of this interest group, please send a brief description to rbuser@cscc.edu.

Thanks for your input,

Robin Buser

Chair, CORE Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

rbuser@cscc.edu