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Time To Get Technical About Technical Services: Reorganizing Technical Services At Bowling Green State University, Patricia Falk
Time To Get Technical About Technical Services: Reorganizing Technical Services At Bowling Green State University, Patricia Falk
OVGTSL 2023: Ongoing Challenges, Creative Solutions
Technical Services in libraries has been undergoing changes in the past ten years and Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is no exception. Changes in technology, processes, and attrition in staffing have been just a few of the reasons for this significant change. University Libraries (UL) at BGSU has recently made a change in its organizational structure that has been affected by some of these factors. Previously, our Technical Services area included numerous classified staff catalogers, a head of cataloging, head of serials, head of acquisitions, an e-resources librarian, and several other support staff members to assist with processing and cataloging …
Training Buffet: Self-Service Acquisitions Training For Librarians And Staff, Cara Calabrese, Ginny Boehme
Training Buffet: Self-Service Acquisitions Training For Librarians And Staff, Cara Calabrese, Ginny Boehme
OVGTSL 2023: Ongoing Challenges, Creative Solutions
While acquisitions workflows and tools have updated over the years, our training methods have seemingly not evolved with the same speed. At ALA Annual there were a few conversations about teaching and training new acquisitions staff. Many emphasized that learning on the job was one of the best tools, and many of our colleagues have had success with implementing asynchronous instructional materials. For example, after a colleague was able to develop a copyright course, she was then able to turn her attention to other pressing tasks. Why can't we do the same for acquisitions?
In 2022, Acquisitions partnered with Instruction …
An Odyssey: Merging Two Interlibrary Loan Departments Into One (Lighting Talk), Courtney Taulbee, Amanda Williams
An Odyssey: Merging Two Interlibrary Loan Departments Into One (Lighting Talk), Courtney Taulbee, Amanda Williams
OVGTSL 2023: Ongoing Challenges, Creative Solutions
Lightning Round #2
During the 2021/2022 fiscal year, the University of Kentucky Libraries decided to take the opportunity to make service updates while workflow was altered or restricted by the pandemic. The Main Campus and Medical Center Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery services at the University of Kentucky Libraries merged in order to streamline services and resources for both our patrons and staff. Having assessed this idea in the past, it was determined that this would be a suitable time to implement this change. Some of the highlights include merging OCLC symbols, reorganizing staff responsibilities and workflow, centralizing the patron interface, and …
Even Flow : Using Microsoft Flows To Streamline Library Acquisitions Work, Carissa Thatcher
Even Flow : Using Microsoft Flows To Streamline Library Acquisitions Work, Carissa Thatcher
OVGTSL 2023: Ongoing Challenges, Creative Solutions
Have you seen the Power Automate icon in Microsoft 365 and wondered what that does? Or maybe you've heard about this thing called Flow but not sure what the big deal is? Would you like to up your acquisitions game, but not sure where to start? We'll kick off this session with Microsoft Power Automate and Flow basics such as naming conventions, expressions and variables. Then move on to the fun stuff, demonstrating how you can streamline your acquisitions processes through Microsoft Power Automate by harnessing the power of automating emails, populating SharePoint spreadsheets from a form, and how to …
Managing A Large Scale Project: Using Strengthsfinder In The Website Redesign, Laura Edwards, Cristina Tofan
Managing A Large Scale Project: Using Strengthsfinder In The Website Redesign, Laura Edwards, Cristina Tofan
EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship
After doing a library-wide StrengthsFinder assessment that highlighted the strengths of its individuals, EKU Libraries decided to put this strategy into practice by applying it to one of the most complex projects in the life of an academic library: the website redesign. This decentralized approach allowed project managers to align strengths-based teams with phases of the redesign that would most benefit from that team’s unique strengths.