Preface
INTRODUCTION: The Challenges Facing Library Technical Services: A Dialogue, by Rebecca Ciota and R. Cecilia Knight
CHALLENGE ONE: The Evolution of Library Cataloging and Metadata
CHAPTER 1: From Records to Data: The New Purposes of Cataloging, by Kara D. Long
CHAPTER 2: Measuring Metadata Quality: A User Research Approach, by Erin Elzi and Kevin Clair
CHAPTER 3: Technical Services Advocacy: Partnerships in the Library and Beyond, by Bridget Euliano, Peggy Griesinger, Kimberley A. Edwards, and Tricia Mackenzie
CHAPTER 4: A Road Taken: A Cataloging Team Becomes a Metadata Team, by Scott M. Dutkiewicz and Jessica L. Serrao
CHALLENGE TWO: Improving Collection Evaluation and Management
CHAPTER 5: Assessing the Work of Technical Services Through an In-Depth Analysis of Physical Resource Usage, by Laura Kirkland
CHAPTER 6: Building Better Collections Through Relationships: Sharing Expertise During Collection Downsizing, by Mary C. Aagard, Nancy Rosenheim, Marlena Hooyboer, and Cheri A. Folkner
CHAPTER 7: Bound for the Stacks: Strategic Rightsizing and Classification of Print Journals Collections, by Emily A. Hicks and Fred W. Jenkins
CHAPTER 8: Space Reclamation: The Cataloging Department's Role in Weeding Projects, by Muriel D. Nero and Jia He
CHAPTER 9: Relocating, Downsizing, and Merging: Inventory Projects to Manage Change in a Digital Environment, by Gail Perkins Barton and Rachel Elizabeth Scott
CHALLENGE THREE: Rethinking Library Space Usage
CHAPTER 10: For Efficiency's Sake: Consolidating Workflows, Managing Change, and Positioning Ourselves for the Future, by Mary S. Laskowski and Jennifer A. Maddox Abbott
CHAPTER 11: A Framework for Addressing the Psychological Aspects of Relocating Technical Services Off-Site, by Christine Korytnyk Dulaney
CHAPTER 12: Building an Infrastructure: Integrating Access and Technical Services for Improved Service Quality Utilizing a Supply Chain Model, by
Karen Glover, Elizabeth Winter, and Emy Nelson Decker
CHALLENGE FOUR: Staffing Technical Services
CHAPTER 13: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services, by Rhonda Y. Kauffman and Martina S. Anderson
CHAPTER 14: Creative Solutions to Technical Services Staffing Challenges in an Academic Library, by Meghan Banach Bergin and Sally Krash
CHAPTER 15: Auraria Library: One Technical Services Department, Three Institutions, by Sommer Browning
CHAPTER 16: Redefining the Pie: Doing More With Less in Technical Services, by Monika Glowacka-Musial, Ellen Bosman, and John Sandstrom
CHAPTER 17: Crossing Conventional Lines: Innovative Staffing and Cross-Training in Technical Services, by Lisa Kallman Hopkins
CHAPTER 18: Challenging the Status Quo: Collaboration and Creativity in Small Academic Libraries, by Susanne Markgren
CHAPTER 19: Out From the Shadows: Transforming Technical Services During an Academic Library's Reorganization, by Courtney McAllister
CHAPTER 20: Technical Metamorphosis by Design, by Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter
CHAPTER 21: Responding to Evolutionary Workflow Challenges Through Staffing Adaptation: A Play in Five Acts, by Kimberly W. Stevens, Mary Bevis, Bethany Latham, and Jodi Poe
CHALLENGE FIVE: Government Documents Collections in a Digital Era
CHAPTER 22: Using CRDP to Manage Cataloging in a Federal Depository Library, by Edith K. Beckett
CHAPTER 23: Bridging Functions: Government Publications Librarians as Technical and Public Service Ambassadors, by McKinley Sielaff
CHALLENGE SIX: Adapting for the Future
CHAPTER 24: Facing Distance Education Challenges in the Library Through Collaboration Between Technical and Public Services Departments: A Case Study, by Katherine Hill and Samantha Harlow
CHAPTER 25: Evolving Ethos and Etiquette: Why and How We Altered Our Library-Vendor Relationships, by Laurel Sammonds Crawford and Allyson Rodriguez
CHAPTER 26: Adopting Agile: Workflow and Personnel Management in Technical Services at a Small Academic Library, by Paromita Biswas
Glossary
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
