WHAT'S NEW WITH TECHNICAL SERVICES? A REPORT OF THE ALCTS TECHNICAL SERVICES MANAGERS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES INTEREST GROUP MEETING, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MIDWINTER MEETING, SEATTLE, WA, JANUARY 2013

摘要

The Technical Services Managers in Academic Libraries Interest Group (also known as "Medium Heads") met at ALA Midwinter 2013 for the usual round table discussions and sharing. The discussion theme was "What's New with Technical Services? Sharing Tips and Tricks," and five discussion tables covered the following five topics: 1. Changing staff roles for changing times, 2. Acquisitions/serials: changing workflows, changing relationships, 3. Resource description and access (RDA) implementation, 4. E-books: the changes and challenges they've brought to Technical Services, 5. Vendor machine readable cataloging (MARC) records.