Library technical services : adapting to the changing environment /
edited by Stacey Marien.
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
- Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The Challenges Facing Library Technical Services: A Dialogue / Challenge One: The Evolution of Library Cataloging and Metadata -- From Records to Data: The New Purposes of Cataloging / Measuring Metadata Quality: A User Research Approach / Technical Services Advocacy: Partnerships in the Library and Beyond / A Road Taken: A Cataloging Team Becomes a Metadata Team / Challenge Two: Improving Collection Evaluation and Management -- Assessing the Work of Technical Services Through an In-Depth Analysis of Physical Resource Usage / Building Better Collections Through Relationships: Sharing Expertise During Collection Downsizing / Bound for the Stacks: Strategic Rightsizing and Classification of Print Journals Collections / Space Reclamation: The Cataloging Department's Role in Weeding Projects / Relocating, Downsizing, and Merging: Inventory Projects to Manage Change in a Digital Environment / Challenge Three: Rethinking Library Space Usage -- For Efficiency's Sake: Consolidating Workflows, Managing Change, and Positioning Ourselves for the Future / A Framework for Addressing the Psychological Aspects of Relocating Technical Services Off-Site / Building an Infrastructure: Integrating Access and Technical Services for Improved Service Quality Utilizing a Supply Chain Model / Challenge Four: Staffing Technical Services -- Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services / Creative Solutions to Technical Services Staffing Challenges in an Academic Library / Auraria Library: One Technical Services Department, Three Institutions / Redefining the Pie: Doing More With Less in Technical Services / Crossing Conventional Lines: Innovative Staffing and Cross-Training in Technical Services / Challenging the Status Quo: Collaboration and Creativity in Small Academic Libraries / Out From the Shadows: Transforming Technical Services During an Academic Library's Reorganization / Technical Metamorphosis by Design / Responding to Evolutionary Workflow Challenges Through Staffing Adaptation: A Play in Five Acts / Challenge Five: Government Documents Collections in a Digital Era -- Using CRDP to Manage Cataloging in a Federal Depository Library / Bridging Functions: Government Publications Librarians as Technical and Public Service Ambassadors / Challenge Six: Adapting for the Future -- Facing Distance Education Challenges in the Library Through Collaboration Between Technical and Public Service Departments: A Case Study / Evolving Ethos and Etiquette: Why and How We Altered Our Library-Vendor Relationships / Adopting Agile: Workflow and Personnel Management in Technical Services at a Small Academic Library / Rebecca Ciota and R. Cecilia Knight -- Kara D. Long -- Erin Elzi and Kevin Clair -- Bridget Euliano, Peggy Griesinger, Kimberley A. Edwards, and Tricia Mackenzie -- Scott M. Dutkiewicz and Jessica L. Serrao -- Laura Kirkland -- Mary C. Aagard, Nancy Rosenheim, Marlena Hooyboer, and Cheri A. Folkner -- Emily A. Hicks and Fred W. Jenkins -- Muriel D. Nero and Jia He -- Gail Perkins Barton and Rachel Elizabeth Scott -- Mary S. Laskowski and Jennifer A. Maddox Abbott -- Christine Korytnyk Dulaney -- Karen Glover, Elizabeth Winter, and Emy Nelson Decker -- Rhonda Y. Kauffman and Martina S. Anderson -- Meghan Banach Bergin and Sally Krash -- Sommer Browning -- Monika Glowacka-Musial, Ellen Bosman, and John Sandstrom -- Lisa Kallman Hopkins -- Susanne Markgren -- Courtney McAllister -- Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter -- Kimberly W. Stevens, Mary Bevis, Bethany Latham, and Jodi Poe -- Edith K. Beckett -- McKinley Sielaff -- Katherine Hill and Samantha Harlow -- Laurel Sammonds Crawford and Allyson Rodriguez -- 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"--