The Incredible Shrinking Cataloging Department: How to Do More with Less
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This is a free ALA event
With the current economic downturn, many cataloging departments have experienced or are facing staff reductions. With fewer catalogers around to process materials, those departments have to come up with ways to deal with the situation. Some have struggled while others have been more successful. Some have even managed to do more with less.
This e-Forum will be an open discussion about options, choices, strategies used in various cataloging departments. Please be prepared to share your own ideas and solutions. We are hoping we all will have a great and productive year ahead with the collective wisdom offered through this forum. The topics to be covered include:
- Outsourcing options
- Cooperative cataloging exchanges between libraries
- Managing foreign language materials
- Improving efficiencies in cataloging workflow
- Stopping tasks that are less value-added
Dates & Times
January 11-12, 2012
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 6am - 4pm
Mountain: 7am - 5pm
Central: 8am - 6 pm
Eastern: 9am - 7pm
