ALCTS on the offensive

[Pat Wallace <DENWALL@AOL.COM>]

8-2-97
Forward  re:  ALCTS  web site

Please note the express purpose of this new web site:

"In order to provide additional support for librarians faced with management
decisions that might involve outsourcing....."

Does ALCTS not  speak to anyone but managers on this
issue????

Pat  Wallace, SLIS graduate student, & future school librarian
denwall @ aol.com
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997
From: Lois Ann Gregory-Wood <lgregory@ala.org>
To: ALA Council List <alacoun@ala1.ala.org>
Subject: Outsourcing

Councilor Alex Bloss asked me to post the following message on the Council
Listserv.
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ALCTS has developed a website on the outsourcing of library technical
services.  You may find it at http://www.ala.org/alcts/now.  What follows is
a press release giving more background on ALCTS and the source of the
documents on the website.  I invite you to look at it.            Alex Bloss,
ALCTS Councilor
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997
From: Karen Muller (ALA) <kmuller@ala.org>
Subject: Outsourcing Release -Forwarded
Library Technical Services Outsourcing

Over the years, the Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services (ALCTS) has provided information and forums for discussion about
responsible practices for all aspects of library technical services and
collection development, including outsourcing.  At the 1996 ALA Annual
Conference, the ALCTS Commercial Technical Services Committee sponsored a
preconference and a program on outsourcing, with part of these
presentations repeated for a special forum on outsourcing at the 1997
Midwinter Meeting.  The same committee has also collaborated on a
book,_Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Public,
Academic, and Special Libraries_, which will be published by ALA in a few
weeks.

In order to provide additional support for librarians faced with management
decisions that might involve outsourcing, ALCTS is making some of the
handouts from the preconference, program and forum available on web site.
 These include a general discussion of outsourcing, "Planning and
Implementing an Outsourcing Program, by Karen W. Wilson, Head Technical
Services Librarian/Assistant, J. Hugh Jackson Library, Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University. This is supplemented by a table that includes
a selection of acquisitions and collection development services and the
cataloging, physical processing, and preservation services available from
commercial vendors, matched with the scope of vendor services programs
available; a set of pros and cons of outsourcing, and a select bibliography.
 These will be updated from time to time as new information becomes
available.  The outsourcing documents are available at
http://www.ala.org/alcts/now and Fax-on-Demand, 800/545-2433, press 8.
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