Today's Topics: 1. FW: ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation - Soliciting Nominations (Elaine Franco) 2. ALCTS Seeks Candidates for the 2017 Election (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Collaboration Citation. If you are interested in nominating a candidate for this award, contact the chair of the award jury. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is Dec. 1. Outstanding Collaboration Citation This award recognizes and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation or archiving of library materials. It recognizes actions, services or products that improve and benefit the providing and managing of library collections. The citation may be presented to two or more individuals or groups who have participated jointly in an appropriate achievement. Accomplishments that expose problems may be as valuable as successes. The citation will be presented in a year when an achievement of merit has occurred. Recognized forms of collaboration must be between library personnel and other individuals or such groups as publishers, vendors, cultural organizations, government agencies, philanthropic organizations and the like. Results of a collaborative effort must demonstrate advancement in collection management or technical services working environments. Send nominations, along with written justification for the citation in terms of demonstrated outcomes in work achieved through actions, services or products; how the achievement contributed to the fulfillment of needs in the work of collection management or technical services and any other factors relevant to the merit of the achievement and two letters of recommendation to: Sarah Wallbank<mailto:[email protected]?subject=ALCTS%20Oustanding%20Collaboration% 20Award>, chair, Citation Jury. Visit the Outstanding Collaboration page<http://www.ala.org/alcts/awards/profrecognition/collaborationcite> for more information. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. An international member-driven association, ALCTS engages the library community on issues and policies that affect the acquisition, management, discovery and preservation of library collections. Sarah B. Wallbank Electronic Resources & Serials Cataloging Librarian The UCI Libraries University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92623-9557 949-824-4174 [email protected] ------------------------------ Message: 2 Dear ALCTS Members, The ALCTS Sections are beginning to put together slates for the 2017 election. We ask that you recommend candidates with proven leadership skills who you believe would be successful in an elected position. Please contact the past-past chair of each section with nominations. Self-nominations are most welcome! The following offices need candidates. Each term of service lasts three years, 2017 - 2020. Acquisitions Section Chair-elect Member-at-Large Cataloging and Metadata Management Section Chair-elect Member-at-large (2) Collection Management Section Chair-elect Member-at-Large Secretary Continuing Resources Section Chair-elect Member-at-large Preservation And Reformatting Section Chair-elect Member-at-large Send nominations for these offices to the following Nominating Committee chairs no later than September 30th, 2016. All recommendations will be confidential during the vetting period. * Acquisitions ? Lisa Spagnolo [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> * Cataloging and Metadata Management ? Melinda Flannery [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> * Collection Management ? Michael Levine-Clark [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> * Continuing Resources ? Jennifer Young [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> * Preservation and Reformatting ? Kara McClurken [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Thank you, Mary -- Mary Page Associate Director for Collections and Technical Services University of Central Florida Libraries P.O. Box 162666 Orlando, FL 32816-2666 407-823-2564<tel:407-823-2564> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 53, Issue 17 ************************************ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
