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Navigating Library Evolution: Challenges and Strategies in Technical Services Transformation

Explore the shifting landscape of library technical services amidst the new normal, discussing acquisitions, cataloging, and financial aspects. Learn how libraries are adapting, embracing change, and exploring creative financing to stay relevant.

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Navigating Library Evolution: Challenges and Strategies in Technical Services Transformation

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  1. Technical Services “Living with the new Normal” Gloria Kelley Dean of Library Services Central Piedmont Community College

  2. Session Outline • Acquisitions • Cataloging • Finance/Budgeting

  3. Library Myths • Libraries/Librarians are no longer needed • Technical Services is Dead • Libraries have a new Normal

  4. What are Libraries Experiencing? • Changing, adapting, changing, adapting…… • To remain relevant, change is necessary • Library Makeover • Are libraries self serving? • New models of operation • Budget strains force radical change  

  5. Changes in TS • Shift from Print to Digital • Information Delivery instead of ownership • Reduction in subscriptions • Collective Purchasing – Consortium agreements •  Outsourcing of services • Reassigning personnel • Library-Publisher Collaboration • Systems – upgrades, new generations

  6. Creative Financing • State Budget • Institutional budget • Accreditation (SACS, program) • Grants • Collaboration with academic departments • Foundation • Collaboration with campus Foundation Offices to establish endowments

  7. Creative Financing • Internal Collaboration • Departmental /Division/Library- cost is covered by subject areas or cost is shared • Fees • (Library versus Lab fees) • Etc.

  8. Which One are You?

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