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Georgia Library Association - Technical Services Interest Group, Linh Uong, Rachel Evans, Rebecca Hunnicutt

Georgia Library Quarterly

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One Cataloger’S Action-Packed Adventures With Alma Migration, Erin M. Grant

Georgia Library Quarterly

A cataloger/technical services librarian's personal narrative of involvement in a library system migration.

Fast Times In Technical Services: Challenges And Opportunities, Audrey Fenner

The Southeastern Librarian

Both challenges and opportunities are plentiful in libraries these days. A quick summary of the current situation is that technical services departments must do more with the same or fewer financial and human resources and, at the same time, become involved in new library initiatives. Karen Calhoun of Cornell University Library wrote recently that organizational and operational assumptions about technical services are changing. This is her summary of the challenges facing technical services:

• Growing user expectations for electronic and digital services
• Wide array of formats and types of materials
• Rapid technological change
• Rising prices for library materials
• Close scrutiny of …