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Core Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group (RPLTS IG) invites speakers to present as part of the 2025 Core Virtual Interest Group Week. The RPLTS session will take place virtually on Tuesday, March 4, at 1:00 pm Central Standard Time.
Over the past five years, libraries have faced many challenges, some old, some new. Organizational restructuring and new economic uncertainties continue to impact library technical services, along with new book banning campaigns, the recent emergence of AI, growing DEI efforts and challenges, and a myriad of other established responsibilities. These changes are reshaping users' needs and expectations along with the future of technical services work.
We are seeking proposals for presentations about how technical services librarians think about and respond to recent trends at their institutions, in librarianship, or across society.
Potential areas to address could include, but are not limited to:
- advocacy and outreach
- artificial intelligence
- assessment
- equity, diversity and inclusion
- management techniques
- new partnerships and collaborations
- new user needs
- staffing challenges
- systems and workflows
- vendor relations
We aim to provide a session with 2-3 short presentations (20 minutes maximum each) followed by a brief Q&A. We welcome your presentation proposals by January 31, 2025, with selection communicated by February 10, 2025.
You do not need to be a member of ALA/Core to present or attend.
Please submit your proposal using this form.
If you have questions, please contact us. We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Co-Chairs - Anne LePage (alepage@mta.ca) and Rebecca McClure (mcclurerl@cofc.edu)
Co Vice-Chairs - Mohammad AlHamad (mohammad.alhamad@tamucc.edu) and Elizabeth Richey (emrichey@uci.edu)
Rebecca McClure, MLIS
she/her/hers
Metadata Services Librarian
College of Charleston Libraries
mcclurerl@cofc.edu
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Rebecca McClure
Metadata Services Librarian
College of Charleston
She/Her/Hers
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