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Reminder of ALA session

Posted By Robin Buser Jun 24, 2025 11:54 AM
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Please join us for our discussion session at ALA: The Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) will be meeting at ALA in Philadelphia at 9am Sunday morning. We will be meeting in the same room as the Metadata & Collection All Section & Committee Meeting. Our meeting is not on the ...

CITSIG meeting at ALA 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Jun 16, 2025 11:13 AM
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The Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) will be meeting at ALA in Philadelphia at 9am Sunday morning. We will be meeting in the same room as the Metadata & Collection All Section & Committee Meeting. Our meeting is not on the ALA Scheduler, so be sure to pencil it in! Sunday, ...

Conundrum for April 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Apr 04, 2025 06:31 AM
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Thank you to those who responded to the March conundrum. Here is the April conundrum: My library has been given a collection of materials in languages that we don't usually collect: Russian (Cyrillic), Gujarati, and Thai. I have been tasked with cataloging them and making them a part of the collection, ...

Call for Topics and Facilitators at ALA Conference 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Mar 26, 2025 09:39 AM
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The ALA Core Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) is planning an in-person round table discussion at the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Philadelphia on Sunday, June 29, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. This session is meant to allow time for lively small group discussions ...

RE: Conundrum for March 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Mar 18, 2025 08:02 AM
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Here's a reminder to share what you have done to provide inexpensive professional development opportunities. What have you done? Thank you to those who have already responded with their approaches to this conundrum. Robin Buser Chair, Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group. ---- ...

Conundrum for March 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Mar 03, 2025 09:23 AM
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Hello CITSIG! Here's a conundrum for March. Please reply with your suggestions for this librarian. Our library has a new director who is emphasizing professional development but hasn't been given a budget to send anyone anywhere. Can anyone suggest inexpensive professional development opportunities ...

RE: Conundrum for February 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Feb 24, 2025 09:49 AM
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Hello CITSIG! This is the final week for the February conundrum. If you have any suggestions or experiences you are willing to share about advocating for filling empty positions, please post a reply to this message. If you have a conundrum in your technical services work life, please send a brief ...

RE: Conundrum for February 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Feb 18, 2025 08:27 AM
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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 ...

RE: Conundrum for February 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Feb 10, 2025 06:27 AM
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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 ...

Conundrum for February 2025

Posted By Robin Buser Feb 03, 2025 08:37 AM
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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 ...

Give us your conundrums

Posted By Robin Buser Jan 08, 2025 07:05 AM
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Hello! We all face new challenges in our technical services work every day. With 378 members in this interest group, someone else is probably facing the same challenge you are facing or has already come up with a creative solution. To help share those ideas and solutions, we are going to start posting ...

RE: Call for Vice-Chair, Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

Posted By Robin Buser Apr 24, 2024 01:12 PM
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Correction: I did not change the dates from 2023/2024 to 2024/2025. The appointment for Vice Chair will be from July 2024 through June 2025. The subsequent appointment as Chair will be from July 2025 through June 2026. My apologies for any confusion. Robin ------------------------------ Robin ...

Call for Vice-Chair, Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group

Posted By Robin Buser Apr 24, 2024 01:06 PM
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The ALA Core Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) seeks a new Vice-Chair for the coming two year term: Vice-Chair from (July 2023/June 2024) and Chair (July 2024/June 2025). As an interest group within ALA Core, the Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group provides ...