MOVING INTO THE FUTURE: TECHNICAL SERVICES IN TRANSFOR-MATION. A REPORT OF THE TECHNICAL SERVICES MANAGERS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES INTEREST GROUP MEETING, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, DC,JUNE 2010

摘要

As tremendous cultural and technological transformations impact libraries and library work, library technical services are undergoing significant changes. Moving into the future requires technical services to embrace many new initiatives, including such trends as user-initiated services and acquisitions, network level data management, globalization of resource access, elimination of localization, social networks for internal communications, changing organizational structure, and others. Technical services staff will need to respond to the swift changes today and tomorrow; developing the essential competencies and skills is imperative. As General Eric Shinseki said: "If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less!"