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| Month/year | Article discussed | Discussion leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Kohl, Laura (2018). “Gifts of Plenty: Library Gift Procedures at the University of New Mexico,” Technical Services Quarterly, 35:1, 28-41 https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2017.1385293 | Emily | ||
| June 2018 | Cancelled due to peer review meeting/ALA Annual | |||
| May 2018 | Breeding, M. (2018). Library Systems Report 2018. American Libraries,49(5), 22-35. Retrieved May 5, 2018, from https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/05/01/library-systems-report-2018/ | Autumn | ||
| April 2018 | Cancelled due to a conflicting all-library staff meeting. | |||
| March 2018 | Cancelled due to self-evaluations season. | |||
| February 2018 | Weng, Cathy and Erin Ackerman (2017). "Towards Sustainable Partnership: Examining Cross Perceptions of Public and Technical Services Academic Librarians," LRTS 61:4, 198-211. | AutmunAutumn | ||
| January 2018 | Cancelled due to ALA Midwinter | |||
| December 2017 | Cancelled due to illness. | Autumn | ||
| November 2017 | Taniguchi, Shoichi (2017). "Is BIBFRAME 2.0 a Suitable Schema for Exchanging and Sharing Diverse Descriptive Metadata about Bibliographic Resources?," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2017.1382643 | Emily | ||
| October 2017 | Mitchell, Erik T. (2017). "Assessing service quality and organizational goal alignment for service units," Technical Services Quarterly 34:4 http://dx.doi.org.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/10.1080/07317131.2017.1356072 | Lee | ||
| September 2017 | Cancelled due to RPCAM meeting | |||
| August 2017 | Chang-FitzGibbon, Kerry & Jianrong Wang (2017). "In the Spotlight: Technical Services Professionals in Library-Wide Assessment," Technical Services Quarterly, 34:2, 157-173, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2017.1286845 | Emily | ||
| July 2017 | Marshall Breeding’s Library Systems Report 2017 | Autumn | ||
| June 2017 | Cancelled due to CMS meeting with Special Collections Cataloging Librarian candidate. | |||
| May 2017 | Cancelled. | |||
| April 2017 | Kirsten Ostergaard & Doralyn Rossmann (2017). “There's Work to be Done: Exploring Library–Vendor Relations,” Technical Services Quarterly, 34:1, 13-33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2017.1238196 | Emily | ||
| March 2017 | Grissom, A. R., Knowlton, S. A., & Scott, R. E. (2017). Perpetual access information in serials holdings records. Library Resources & Technical Services, 61(1), 57-62. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1864046747?accountid=12598 | Lee | ||
| February 2017 | Juliya Borie, Kate MacDonald & Elisa Sze (2015). “Asserting Catalogers’ Place in the “Value of Libraries” Conversation,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, (53:3-4), 352-367. http://www.tandfonline.com.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/doi/full/10.1080/01639374.2015.1007543 | Emily | ||
| January 2017 | Cancelled | |||
| December 2016 | Lee | November 2016 | Matthew Harrington, Christee Pascale, and Xiaoyan Song (2016). "Making the Unseen Seen: Discovering Discrepancies and Shedding Light on Automated E-Resource Reconciliation," Serials Review 42:3 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2016.1212601 | Lee |
| November 2016 | Cancelled due to low attendance. | Autumn | ||
| October 2016 | Jeehyun Yun Davis (2016). "Transforming Technical Services: Evolving Functions in Large Research University Libraries." LRTS 60:1 https://journals.ala.org/lrts/article/view/5901 | Emily | ||
| September 2016 | Cancelled. | |||
| August 2016 | Jennifer Wright (2016). "Electronic Outages: What Broke, Who Broke It, and How to Track It," LRTS 60:3 https://journals.ala.org/lrts/article/view/6041 | Lee | ||
| July 2016 | McKinnon, Dawn (2016). "Using Perceptions and Preferences from Public Services Staff to Improve Error Reporting and Workflows." LRTS 60(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.60n2.115 | Autumn | ||
| June 2016 | Mary S. Laskowski , Jennifer A. Maddox Abbott (2016). "Behind the scenes but not behind the times: Technical services support for New Service Model initiatives" Technical Services Quarterly 33:1 | Emily | ||
| May 2016 | Postponed due to leader's car trouble. | |||
| April 2016 | Cancelled to allow staff to attend presentation on PDF accessibility. | |||
| March 2016 | Mary S. Laskowski (2016). "When Good Enough Is Not Good Enough: Resolving Cataloging Issues for High Density Storage," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 54:3, 147-158 DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2016.1138420 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639374.2016.1138420 | Autumn | ||
| February 2016 | http://orweblog.oclc.org/towards-the-facilitated-collection/ (blog post) | Ranti | ||
| January 2016/December 2015 | Cancelled. | |||
| November 2015 | Riemer, John J. "The Transformation and Ascendancy of Authority Data." Technicalities 35.3 (2015): 1-7. AND a blog post that expands on Riemer’s idea of differentiating between establishing identifiers and authority work: “Getting Identifiers Created for Legacy Names” http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5463 | Lisa R. | ||
| October 2015 | Special topic: Proquest's acquisition of Ex Libris blogs: Marshall Breeding: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/proquest-to-acquire-ex-libris/ Roger Schonfeld: http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog/what-are-the-larger-implications-of-proquests-acquisition-of-exlibris/ Carl Grant: http://thoughts.care-affiliates.com/2015/10/another-perspective-on-proquest-buying.html?m=1 | Joshua | ||
| September 2015 | Belford, R. (2014). Evaluating Library Discovery Tools through a Music Lens. Library Resources & Technical Services,58(1). Retrieved from https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/5035/6096 | Autumn | ||
| August 2015 | Sandra Littletree & Cheryl A. Metoyer (2015). "Knowledge Organization from an Indigenous Perspective: The Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus of American Indian American Indian Terminology Project," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53:5-6, 640-657, https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1010113 | Lee | ||
| July 2015 | Hanson, Eric. "A Beginner's Guide to Creating Library Linked Data: Lessons from NCSU's Organization Name Linked Data Project." Serials Review, 40:4. DOI: 10.1080/00987913.2014.975887. | Emily | ||
| June 2015 | Cancelled. | |||
| May 2015 | Marshall Breeding's Library Systems Report 2015 | Lisa R. | ||
| April 2015 | Cancelled. | |||
| March 2015 | Cancelled. | |||
| February 2015 | A 90-minute Plan for Personal Effectiveness, Harvard Business Review "Managing Yourself" column, January 24, 2011 | Kay | ||
| January 2015 | Kari Schmidt & Christine Korytnyk Dulaney (2014) From Print to Online: Revamping Technical Services with Centralized and Distributed Workflow Models, The Serials Librarian: From the Printed Page to the Digital Age, 66:1-4, 65-75, DOI:10.1080/0361526X.2014.879033 | Lee | ||
| December 2014 | BIBFRAME Overview white paper by Paul Frank + related OCLC Research blog post | Autumn | ||
| November 2014 | Cancelled due to webinar scheduling conflicts. | |||
| October 2014 (inaugural) | Heather Lea Moulaison & Anthony J. Million (2014) The Disruptive Qualities of Linked Data in the Library Environment: Analysis and Recommendations, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 4, 367-387, DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2014.880981 | Emily |
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