Library technical services : adapting to the changing environment / edited by Stacey Marien.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: The Challenges Facing Library Technical Services: A Dialogue / Rebecca Ciota and R. Cecilia Knight -- Challenge One: The Evolution of Library Cataloging and Metadata -- From Records to Data: The New Purposes of Cataloging / Kara D. Long -- Measuring Metadata Quality: A User Research Approach / Erin Elzi and Kevin Clair -- Technical Services Advocacy: Partnerships in the Library and Beyond / Bridget Euliano, Peggy Griesinger, Kimberley A. Edwards, and Tricia Mackenzie -- A Road Taken: A Cataloging Team Becomes a Metadata Team / Scott M. Dutkiewicz and Jessica L. Serrao -- Challenge Two: Improving Collection Evaluation and Management -- Assessing the Work of Technical Services Through an In-Depth Analysis of Physical Resource Usage / Laura Kirkland -- Building Better Collections Through Relationships: Sharing Expertise During Collection Downsizing / Mary C. Aagard, Nancy Rosenheim, Marlena Hooyboer, and Cheri A. Folkner -- Bound for the Stacks: Strategic Rightsizing and Classification of Print Journals Collections / Emily A. Hicks and Fred W. Jenkins -- Space Reclamation: The Cataloging Department's Role in Weeding Projects / Muriel D. Nero and Jia He -- Relocating, Downsizing, and Merging: Inventory Projects to Manage Change in a Digital Environment / Gail Perkins Barton and Rachel Elizabeth Scott -- Challenge Three: Rethinking Library Space Usage -- For Efficiency's Sake: Consolidating Workflows, Managing Change, and Positioning Ourselves for the Future / Mary S. Laskowski and Jennifer A. Maddox Abbott -- A Framework for Addressing the Psychological Aspects of Relocating Technical Services Off-Site / Christine Korytnyk Dulaney -- Building an Infrastructure: Integrating Access and Technical Services for Improved Service Quality Utilizing a Supply Chain Model / Karen Glover, Elizabeth Winter, and Emy Nelson Decker -- Challenge Four: Staffing Technical Services -- Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services / Rhonda Y. Kauffman and Martina S. Anderson -- Creative Solutions to Technical Services Staffing Challenges in an Academic Library / Meghan Banach Bergin and Sally Krash -- Auraria Library: One Technical Services Department, Three Institutions / Sommer Browning -- Redefining the Pie: Doing More With Less in Technical Services / Monika Glowacka-Musial, Ellen Bosman, and John Sandstrom -- Crossing Conventional Lines: Innovative Staffing and Cross-Training in Technical Services / Lisa Kallman Hopkins -- Challenging the Status Quo: Collaboration and Creativity in Small Academic Libraries / Susanne Markgren -- Out From the Shadows: Transforming Technical Services During an Academic Library's Reorganization / Courtney McAllister -- Technical Metamorphosis by Design / Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter -- Responding to Evolutionary Workflow Challenges Through Staffing Adaptation: A Play in Five Acts / Kimberly W. Stevens, Mary Bevis, Bethany Latham, and Jodi Poe -- Challenge Five: Government Documents Collections in a Digital Era -- Using CRDP to Manage Cataloging in a Federal Depository Library / Edith K. Beckett -- Bridging Functions: Government Publications Librarians as Technical and Public Service Ambassadors / McKinley Sielaff -- Challenge Six: Adapting for the Future -- Facing Distance Education Challenges in the Library Through Collaboration Between Technical and Public Service Departments: A Case Study / Katherine Hill and Samantha Harlow -- Evolving Ethos and Etiquette: Why and How We Altered Our Library-Vendor Relationships / Laurel Sammonds Crawford and Allyson Rodriguez -- Adopting Agile: Workflow and Personnel Management in Technical Services at a Small Academic Library / Paromita Biswas.

"Libraries are experiencing major changes concerning the role of technical services. Technical services librarians also are being challenged about their relevance and role, sometimes revealed by a lack of understanding of the contribution technical services librarians make to building and curating library and archival collections. The threats are real: relocation from central facilities, the dramatic shift to electronic resources, budgetary constraints, and outsourced processing. As a result, technical services departments are reinventing themselves to respond to these and similar challenges while embracing innovative methods and opportunities to advance librarianship in the twenty-first century. Library Technical Services provides case studies that highlight difficult realities, yet embrace exciting opportunities, such as space reclamation, evolving vendor partnerships, metadata, retraining and managing personnel, special collections, and distance education. Written for catalog and metadata librarians and managers of technical services units, this book will inspire and provide practical advice and examples for solving issues many libraries are facing today"--

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