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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">The Role of Professional Librarians in Technical Services Interest Group (RPLTS IG) of Core seeks facilitators for face-to-face roundtable discussions for its meeting at the 2024 ALA
Annual Conference, taking place on Saturday, June 29, from 9-10am at the San Diego Convention Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">Those interested in participating as a discussion facilitator should submit a proposal that includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> * The topic you wish to explore. Topics should relate to the role of professional librarians in Technical Services (hiring, supervision, staff evaluation, training, management, assessment,
etc.) in academic libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> * An abstract explaining the topic and its importance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> * Three sample discussion questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">Potential discussion topics could include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">advocacy and outreach<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">artificial intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">assessment<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">equity, diversity and inclusion<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">hiring best practices<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">management techniques<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">project management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">research related to technical services<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">staff development<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">systems and workflows<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#082E4F;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif">vendor relations<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">Roundtable discussions are small, informal group discussions intended to give participants the opportunity to network, discuss best practices, and share information. Discussion facilitators
are responsible for identifying and developing a topic, creating discussion questions, facilitating a discussion and sharing back to the larger group. If similar proposals are submitted and accepted, facilitators may be asked to co-facilitate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">Please submit your proposal at the link below by May 15, 2024:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i81qOtvZOhLGpTWHVytExJNLgpgNZbHtwaZkZY9ujJM/edit">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i81qOtvZOhLGpTWHVytExJNLgpgNZbHtwaZkZY9ujJM/edit</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">Housed within the Core division of ALA, the Role of Professional Librarians in Technical Services Interest Group was created to provide a forum to discuss common issues surrounding
the role of professional librarians in technical services and professional activities such as training, project management, research, assessment, supervision, or hiring in the technical services area of academic research libraries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">Alayne Mundt and Greg Ferguson, Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;color:#082E4F">Anne LePage and Rebecca McClure, Vice Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Alayne Mundt</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Director of Technical Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">American University Library<br>
<a href="mailto:mundt@american.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">mundt@american.edu</span></a><br>
202-885-3344<span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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