TS article discussions

TS article discussions

Add a row to the top of the table for each new month's article. 

Month/year

Article discussed

Discussion leader

Month/year

Article discussed

Discussion leader

November 2019

Chapter 1, "Understanding the Migration Process," from: Banerjee, K., & Parks, B. (2017). Migrating library data: A practical manual. Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association. 

Autumn

September 2019

Marshall Breeding's 2019 Library Systems Report: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/05/01/library-systems-report-2019/

Autumn

February 2019

Alabi, J. (2015). Racial microaggressions in academic libraries: Results of a survey of minority and non-minority librarians. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(1), 47-53. https://doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.10.008 

Autumn

December 2018

Mugridge , Rebecca L., Rebecca Nous, Nancy Poehlmann & Wendy West (2018). “Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices in ARL Libraries,” Technical Services Quarterly, 35:4, 323-337, https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2018.1509432

 

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

Autumn

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.

Autumn

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

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 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

 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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