Join us October 3, 2025 for the NOTSL Fall General Meeting: Tectonic Shifts: Technical Services of Today via Zoom.
Keynote speaker Steve Kelley, Head of Continuing Resources & Database Management at Wake Forest University, and CORE President Elect, will present "Tectonic Shifts: The Changing Landscape of Technical Services". His presentation will discuss the state of technical services in libraries today. Topics will include the growth of electronic collections/the shrinkage of physical collections, the increase in subscription models of acquisitions, AI in technical services work, the changing staffing needs of technical services departments, and more.
Lacie Griffin, Collection Development Manager, Johnson County Library, and Past Chair of CORE's Metadata and Collections Section, will present "Technical Services in Public Libraries". Public libraries are navigation a shifting landscape in technical services, where decisions around outsourcing versus in-house processing, digital access, and metadata ownership are more critical than ever. This program explores the evolving role of technical services in supporting access and discovery in both physical digital collections.
Cynthia M. Whitacre, Sr Metadata Operations Manager at OCLC (recently retired), will present "Musings on Past, Present, & Future of Technical Services." Cynthia will discuss the major changes she has seen during her career in cataloging and will emphasize the shifts that she sees occurring now with use of artificial intelligence and the ongoing move to linked data.
Daniel N. Joudrey, Professor and Director of the Libraries and Librarianship Concentration, Simmons University, will present "Technical Services: The Next Generation." This session offers an inside look at how new librarians view cataloging and metadata work. Drawing on real conversations, Joudrey shares their hopes and concerns in a candid discussion about the evolving future of technical services.
Registration is now open. All are welcome; membership is conferred on all attendees
