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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Posted on behalf of the OVGTSL 2020 planning committee, please pardon any duplication<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">OVGTSL 2020 CONFERENCE: TECHNICAL SERVICES TODAY</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">MAY 17-19, 2020 -- UNIVERSITY OF AKRON, AKRON, OHIO</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fideaexchange.uakron.edu%2Fovgtsl2020%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ccdb858303beb4b05cfe108d756599d9d%7Ce8575dedd7f94ecea4aa0b32991aeedd%7C0%7C0%7C637072815205497137&sdata=CacNpsopH6JuRlfBJ4PyL%2FZlQXLUdyk%2FZae9xEh9h%2BQ%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/ovgtsl2020/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Technical Services librarians are faced with multiple changes in workflows, budgets, and technology. We are seeing an increase in usage of electronic resources, evidence-driven collection development,
challenging budgets, space, and staffing, as well as rapidly changing technologies.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The OVGTSL 2020 Conference Program Committee invites forward thinking submissions in all areas related to technical services librarianship including acquisitions, cataloging, serials, electronic
resources, collection development and management, systems, and preservation in academic, public, and special libraries. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Participants are invited to submit proposals that report on recent research, address emerging trends, or showcase new tools, services and projects. Time slots for all sessions are 50 minutes in length
including time for questions. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Authority control</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Automation tools such as batch processing, regular expressions, MarcEdit, OpenRefine, APIs, widgets, dashboards, etc.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Collaboration within and outside the library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Communicating data in meaningful ways for library decision making</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Completed projects, including outcomes and learned experiences</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Current roles of technical services in open access, research data, scholarly communication, and other arenas</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Digital initiatives and collections</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Discovery and access</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Diversity and inclusion in technical services</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Electronic resource management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ethical issues in technical services</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Evidence-driven collection development</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Integration of non-MARC metadata within MARC cataloging workflows</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Managing change</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Metadata creation, reuse and interoperability</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">New staffing models</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Practical applications for BIBFRAME and/or linked data</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Special formats cataloging and/or circulation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Strategies for working with limited budgets and resources</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Training and staff development</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Workflow management, best practices, and documentation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions for presentations, workshops and panel sessions will be considered in addition to specific proposals to lead sessions in non-traditional formats.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">To submit a program proposal, visit</span><span style="color:black">
</span><a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FEfg9fkp5EDSaY8q99&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ccdb858303beb4b05cfe108d756599d9d%7Ce8575dedd7f94ecea4aa0b32991aeedd%7C0%7C0%7C637072815205507132&sdata=7r0TMpZRcG4GEgbwIkO49lIG0uCJh6fiFwW%2B4X%2BDGKo%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://forms.gle/Efg9fkp5EDSaY8q99
</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">to submit the following information by November 1st, 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Title of presentation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Type of program [presentation, workshop, panel, other please specify]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract (no longer than 250 words)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Names, titles, institutional affiliations, phone, email of all presenters</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Primary contact for presenters</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Equipment and other special needs</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Notification regarding acceptance will be sent via e-mail in early January 2020</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Additional information is available by contacting: Margaret Maurer at
</span><a href="mailto:mbmaurer@kent.edu"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">mbmaurer@kent.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) was founded in 1924 and draws its members from the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. The annual conference rotates among these
three states on a regular basis. Membership is open to anyone interested in library technical services.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Patrick Conners Jr., MLIS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Catalog Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Akron-Summit County Public Library<o:p></o:p></p>
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