Today's Topics: 1. Greetings from Technical Services IG! (Elise Y Wong)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Happy New Year to our CLA Technical Services Interest Group (TSIG) Members and friends! At the CLA Annual Conference in November, we were proud to celebrate Elaine Francos's achievements and her CLA Member of the Year Award. We hope that you have benefited from our Serials Cataloging pre-conference workshop and several TSIG programs in Pasadena. We have another eventful year planned and are looking forward to bringing you news, professional development opportunities, and more! Welcome and thank you to our 2015-2016 volunteers, committee members, and officers for their commitment to TSIG. A lot of work has been happening behind the scenes since CLA Annual (in November) to get the new year off to a great start. Let us begin by introducing ourselves, the TSIG Executive and Steering Committee members along with our email addresses. (Please feel free to contact us!) Chair: Elise Wong, Cataloging and Reference Librarian, Saint Mary's College of California: [email protected] Vice Chair/Chair Elect: Luiz Mendes, Cataloging Coordinator, Collection Access & Management Services, California State University, Northridge: [email protected] Past Chair: Julie Renee Moore, Special Collections Catalog Librarian, California State University, Fresno: [email protected] Steering Committee: Elaine Franco, Original Cataloger, Shields Library, University of California, Davis: [email protected] Mary Cohen, Technical Services Department Manager, Palos Verdes Library District: [email protected] Sarah Buchanan, Doctoral Student in Information Studies, University of Texas at Austin: [email protected] Stephanie Roach, Cataloging, Online & Digital Resources Librarian, College of San Mateo Library: [email protected] Yu-Lan Chou, Program Coordinator - Technical Services, Santa Clara City Library: [email protected] Ann M. Duarte, Senior Library Assistant ? Acquisitions, OC Public Libraries: [email protected] Imad Abuelgasim, Original Cataloger, Metadata Creation Unit, Catalog and Metadata Services, Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley: [email protected] Jane Rosario, Librarian, Original Cataloging, Main Library, Metadata Creation Services, University of California, Berkeley: [email protected] Jennifer Lawson, Cataloging and Collection Development Manager, San Diego County Library: [email protected] Kathryn Foster, Trustee, Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library: [email protected] Alvarado, Sacramento Public Library: [email protected] Here is what is happening now:Committees for our two awards will be forming soon. If you would like to participate, please consider becoming a member of an award committee to help us select CLA's next Technical Services New Leader Award and Technical Services Award of Achievement recipients. The nomination/application period opens early in the year, and award recipients are typically selected in May. If you are interested or have questions, please contact Luiz Mendes. Thank you for your responses to our October survey on your interest in attending a MarcEdit workshop in Spring 2016. Planning for a MarcEdit workshop is now underway. If you have additional comments please do not hesitate to contact us. When details are finalized, we will make announcements about the times and places. Please join us on Facebook and Twitter to find out the latest news, event updates, professional development opportunities, and discussions. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/clatsig/ Twitter: @clatsig We remain steadfastly committed to our goals, as stated on the TSIG page: To provide continuing education programs on Technical Services subjects; To facilitate exchange of ideas among those with day-to-day Technical Services responsibilities; To incorporate new technology in the Technical Services workflow; To acknowledge an outstanding individual in Technical Services with the Technical Services Award of Achievement; To acknowledge a new leader who has actively and enthusiastically embraced their role within both TSIG and CLA with the Technical Service New Leader Award; To contribute to the overall success of the California Library Association. We look forward to hearing from you this year. Remember to watch for our updates via the CLA TSIG mailing list. For details on how to update your mailing list settings, visit our list. Happy New Year to you all! Sincerely, Your CLA TSIG Officers Elise Wong, ChairLuiz Mendes, Vice Chair / Chair ElectJulie Moore, Past Chair Tsig mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.cla-net.org/mailman/listinfo/tsig_listserv.cla-net.org End of Tsig Digest, Vol 45, Issue 3 ***********************************
