COSELL's Technical Services Roundtable
SEAALL Annual Meeting
Thursday, April 11 2002
3:45 - 4:30 p.m.

Summary of Meeting

Approximately 10 people attended the Technical Services Round Table meeting on Thursday, April 11 from 3:45-5:00 p.m. Carol Avery Nicholson asked for input and suggestions for "Mano a mano", a program at which she would speak the following day. As a result, the group spent most of its time discussing the topic of relations between technical services and public services departments. Many in the group reported good relationships between the two departments at their own libraries. Mutual respect and regular communication were considered to be two essential factors.

A couple of the libraries represented at the roundtable meeting were in the process of choosing a new integrated library system so the group also briefly discussed the positive and negative aspects of the systems available.

The group forwarded two program ideas to the COSELL Board:

(1) The competition between the online catalog and the home page (a topic to be covered at AALL in Orlando but deemed important enough for a SEAALL reprise).

(2) Dealing with GPO record tapeloads from Marcive (the group thought a positive approach would include representation by Marcive and any libraries which may have solved some of the problems inherent in the tapeload process).

Reported by Linda Tesar <l.tesar@law.vanderbilt.edu>

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