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Outsourcing program at LITA/LAMA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PACS-L Moderator)
Mon Oct 14 21:17:42 1996
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 18:21:42 -0500 (CDT)
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>From: jodiw@iii.com (Jodi Williamschen)
>Subject: Outsourcing program at LITA/LAMA
>
> "Outsourcing Relationships and Intentions: Hype or Reality"
>
> LITA/LAMA National Conference
>
> Tuesday, October 15, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
>
> Presented by the LITA Vendor/User Interest Group
>
>
>Cataloging has been the principal technical services area concerned with
>outsourcing to date. Librarians, however, are investigating serials,
>interlibrary loan, document delivery, and other areas as targets for
>outsourcing consideration, and a growing number of outsourcing projects are
>being planned and implemented in libraries of all types around the country.
>
>Program objectives:
>
>* An understanding of issues to be weighed in conducting an outsourcing
> analysis
>* An awareness of the pitfalls and benefits of ongoing outsourcing projects
>* A consideration of the complexities inherent in vendor system development
> and contractual relationships
>
>Speakers:
>
>* Robert Renaud, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services
> University of Arizona
>* Karen Wilhoit, Head, Bibliographic Control Department
> Wright State University
>* Bart Kane, State Librarian of Hawaii
>* Rick Branham, Product Manager, Conversion Services
> Ameritech Library Services
>* Sandra Weaver Westall, Vice President and Director, Reference Database
> Services
> Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
>
>* Moderator: Sandra Hurd, Director of Library Automation, EBSCO Information
> Services
>
>For more information, please contact Virginia Allen, Chair, LITA Vendor/User
>Interest Group, allen@library.lamar.edu or (409) 880-8849
>