TS article discussions

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

Month/yearArticle discussedDiscussion 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 2019Autumn
February 2019Alabi, 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 2018Cancelled due to peer review meeting/ALA Annual
May 2018Breeding, 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 2018Cancelled due to a conflicting all-library staff meeting.
March 2018Cancelled due to self-evaluations season.
February 2018Weng, 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 2018Cancelled due to ALA Midwinter
December 2017Cancelled 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 2017Mitchell, 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/10.1080/07317131.2017.1356072Lee
September 2017Cancelled due to RPCAM meeting
August 2017Chang-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/10.1080/07317131.2017.1286845Emily
July 2017Marshall Breeding’s Library Systems Report 2017 Autumn
June 2017Cancelled due to CMS meeting with Special Collections Cataloging Librarian candidate.
May 2017Cancelled.
April 2017Kirsten 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/10.1080/07317131.2017.1238196Emily
March 2017Grissom, 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=12598Lee
February 2017Juliya 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/10.1080/01639374.2015.1007543Emily
January 2017Cancelled
December 2016Matthew 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/10.1080/00987913.2016.1212601Lee
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 2016Cancelled.
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 2016McKinnon, 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.60n2.115Autumn
June 2016Mary 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 2016Postponed due to leader's car trouble.
April 2016Cancelled 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 2016http://orweblog.oclc.org/towards-the-facilitated-collection/ (blog post)Ranti
January 2016/December 2015Cancelled.
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 2015Belford, 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/5035/6096Autumn
August 2015Sandra 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/10.1080/01639374.2015.1010113Lee
July 2015Hanson, 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 2015Cancelled.
May 2015Marshall Breeding's Library Systems Report 2015Lisa R.
April 2015Cancelled.
March 2015Cancelled.
February 2015A 90-minute Plan for Personal Effectiveness, Harvard Business Review "Managing Yourself" column, January 24, 2011Kay
January 2015Kari 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.2014.879033Lee
December 2014BIBFRAME Overview white paper by Paul Frank + related OCLC Research blog postAutumn
November 2014Cancelled 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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