Today's Topics: 1. Call for Submissions: My ALCTS Experience (Elaine Franco) 2. FW: **CORRECTED** ALCTS Publishing: Topics (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 The editorial team at ALCTS News is looking for volunteers to share their stories for the My ALCTS Experience column. This is a regular column that highlights the experience of one of our members. Some recent examples can be found here: http://www.ala.org/alctsnews/my-alcts-experience-ellen-cunningham-kruppa http://www.ala.org/alctsnews/columns/july-14-exp-willer Possible topics to cover include: How did you discover ALCTS? What has your experience with ALCTS been like so far? Has ALCTS helped you get a job? Has ALCTS helped you on the job? Have you made awesome networking/mentoring/peer contacts through ALCTS? Do you have any advice for other ALCTS members? If you?re interested in being featured, would like to nominate someone else who might be interested, or have questions/comments/cool ideas, please contact Shanna Hollich at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. === Shanna Hollich, MLIS [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: @srhlib ------------------------------ Message: 2 ALCTS seeks authors for its publications, which include the well-respected, peer-reviewed journal, Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS); ALCTS News; ALCTS Monographs; Sudden Selector?s Guides (SSG); and white papers and ?think pieces? for ALCTS News. Authors are needed for topics suggested by ALCTS members. The full list of suggested topics may be found at http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/info/topics. The broad topical categories are listed below: Acquisitions Altmetrics Authority Control Cataloging Collection Assessment Collection Development/Management Collaboration Communication Consortial Purchasing, E-books, and Databases Continuing Resources Data Curation Data Sets Digital Projects and Metadata Disaster and Emergency Plans Discovery Layer Electronic Resources Gifts ILL ILS Institutional Repositories Metadata Open Access Resources Patron/Demand Driven Acquisitions Perpetual Access Issues Predatory Publishing Preservation Scholarly Communications and the Role of Technical Services Shared Print Collections/Repositories Technical Services Departments and Organization Tools and Standards Training and Continuing Education, Value Editors of ALCTS Division Publications Library Resources & Technical Services: Mary Beth Weber, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ALCTS News: Rebecca Mugridge, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ALCTS Monographs: Susan Thomas, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sudden Selector?s Guides: Helene Williams, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Additional contact: Mary Miller, Chair, ALCTS Publications Committee, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Association for Library Collections & Technical Services a division of the American Library Association www.ala.org/alcts<http://www.ala.org/alcts> ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 46, Issue 8 ***********************************
