Discover Technical Services    

April 29, 2010

No kittens were harmed in the making of this presentation. (It's okay, because I made a trifold

handout.)

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• It's on the third floor• Also in the basement• We've thought about changing our name

o Good to have "digital" or "research"Research and Technical Services (RATS)Services, Technical and Research (STAR)Digital, Research, and Technical Services

(DRATS)Digital and Research Technical Services (DARTS)Try it! CATS, CARTS, etc.

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• The cycleo Identifying, acquiring, providing access,

providing consistency, physical processing and conservation

• Acquisitions• Cataloging• Database Maintenance• Preservation

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• Major activitiesoSerials review

bibliographic, order, payment, check-in, holdings

oPre-inventoryitem-level data in the catalog

oOutside collections Cataloging campus collections that are open for use

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Links and contact information • TS wiki •o  

http://libinfo.unl.edu/techser/index.php/Main_Page

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Links and contact information •    TS Project list

http://libresources.unl.edu/techservices/

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Links and contact information• Submit  a project requesthttp://libresources.unl.edu/techservices/pages/request•  Submit a list requesthttp://libresources.unl.edu/techservices/pages/create_list_request

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Links and contact information• Map  http://libinfo.unl.edu/techser/index.php/Map

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• ThemesoTargeted activityoPartnershipoTake a glad song and make it better oTracking

• StrengthsFinderoWe're strategic maximizing achieversoCollaborative problem-solving

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Learning Organization• Team learning

oCollaborative problem-solving• Personal mastery

oHigh level of experience and expertise• Systems thinking

oWhole > Sum of the partsoParts = Essential to the whole

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• Technical Services Councilo "New TOG"oRepresentatives from TS faculty and staff,

public services, Law Library

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• Cataloging optionsoOCLCoSkyRiveroZ39.50 public domain searchoMARC records from vendorsoshelf-ready

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Re-engineering• "Next Generation" Technical Services• Training • New skills and activities • Workflow and service