2. Discover Technical Services April 29, 2010

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

5. Discover Technical Services 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.

6. Discover Technical Services The cycle o Identifying, acquiring, providing access, providing consistency, physical processing and conservation Acquisitions Cataloging Database Maintenance Preservation

7. Discover Technical Services Major activities o Serials review  bibliographic, order, payment, check-in, holdings o Pre-inventory  item-level data in the catalog o Outside collections  Cataloging campus collections that are open for use

8. Discover Technical Services Links and contact information TS wiki o http://libinfo.unl.edu/techser/index.php/M ain_Pagehttp://libinfo.unl.edu/techser/index.php/M ain_Page 

9. Discover Technical Services Links and contact information TS Project list http://libresources.unl.edu/techservices/ http://libresources.unl.edu/techservices/ 

10. Discover Technical Services Links and contact information Submit a project request http://libresources.unl.edu/techservices/pages /request Submit a list request http://libresources.unl.edu/techservices/pages /create_list_request

11. Discover Technical Services Links and contact information Map http://libinfo.unl.edu/techser/index.php/Map

12. Discover Technical Services Themes o Targeted activity o Partnership o Take a glad song and make it better o Tracking StrengthsFinder o We're strategic maximizing achievers o Collaborative problem-solving

13. Discover Technical Services Learning Organization Team learning o Collaborative problem-solving Personal mastery o High level of experience and expertise Systems thinking o Whole > Sum of the parts o Parts = Essential to the whole

14. Discover Technical Services Technical Services Council o "New TOG" o Representatives from TS faculty and staff, public services, Law Library

15. Discover Technical Services Cataloging options o OCLC o SkyRiver o Z39.50 public domain search o MARC records from vendors o shelf-ready

16. Discover Technical Services Re-engineering "Next Generation" Technical Services Training New skills and activities Workflow and service