Core Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group

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Purpose: Provides a forum to discuss common issues surrounding the role of professional librarians in technical services and professional activities such as training, project management, research, assessment, supervision, or hiring in the technical services area of academic research libraries..

This interest group is part of Core's Metadata and Collections Section.

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ALA Core IG Week program - Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group (RPLTS)

  • 1.  ALA Core IG Week program - Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group (RPLTS)

    Posted Feb 17, 2022 05:40 AM

    (Apology for cross-posting)

     

    Please join ALA Core Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group (RPLTS) for its Core IG Week program. The RPLTS program will take place virtually on Wednesday March 9, 2022, from 2-3 Central / 3-4 Eastern.

     

    The program is free and open to all. ALA or Core membership is not required

    Register at https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EvdRT03fSpGrcbYK-sTHWw

     

    Want to be a Cataloging Manager?

     Kevin Yanowski, Department Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services, University of North Texas

    Sian Brannon, Associate Dean for Collection Management, University of North Texas

    Catherine Sassen, Principal Catalog Librarian, University of North Texas  

     The presenters will share their research on job advertisements for cataloging manager positions in academic libraries from 2015 through 2020. They will discuss how required and preferred qualifications have evolved over time. Recommendations for writing job advertisements to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion will be provided.

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    Practical Tips for Training, Development, and Evaluation within Technical Services

     Matt Frizzell, Assessment Librarian, Georgia Institute of Technology

    Marlee Givens, Modern Languages Librarian & Library Learning Consultant, Georgia Institute of Technology

     Library work requires constant learning, whether due to organizational change, new technologies, or evolving user needs. A learning organization "facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself" (Wikipedia). Teaching and learning new skills can be rewarding, but also intimidating, frustrating, and time consuming. Research in fields of organizational psychology and human resource management points to correlation between satisfaction with workplace training, overall job satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and employee retention. This program will examine training and development methods from instructional design best practices,  effectiveness and assessment, how it applies to technical services training. 

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    Revamping the Wiki with Training Documents

     Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    George Gottschalk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Stephanie Baker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Rachel Riffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

     

    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library migrated its integrated library system to Alma in Summer 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. In preparation for the system migration, the Acquisitions and Cataloging Services unit created new acquisitions and cataloging workflows and shared those documents in two places: acquisitions in the Wiki, which are only available for the acquisitions staff, and cataloging workflows in LibGuide, as some contents are relevant to all library colleagues. However, a strong need to have all the documents in a single, more structured place, with more workflow documents that include step-by-step guidance with images, emerged as in-person training became harder and harder and staff members became more comfortable with learning with documents on their own. So the unit decided to revamp the Wiki in the Fall of 2021 to meet those needs.

     This presentation will share the reasons why the UIUC Acquisitions and Cataloging Services unit decided to use a Wiki as a place for its workflow documents, how the Wiki is structured, how staff members use the Wiki, and what plans we have for additional improvements.

     

    Register at https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EvdRT03fSpGrcbYK-sTHWw

     

    For full IG Week schedule visit https://www.ala.org/core/continuing-education/interest-group-week

     

    RPLTS Co-chairs

    Sherab Chen,  chen.1140@osu.edu

    Sofia Slutskaya, sofia.slutskaya@emory.edu

     

    RPLTS Co-vice-chairs

    Amy Fry, amyfry@illinois.edu

    Marina Morgan, mmorgan@flsouthern.edu



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    Sofia Slutskaya
    Head, Resource Description
    Emory University Library
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