OVGTSL 2024 Hybrid Conference
A Century of OVGTSL:
Technical Services in the Past, Present, and Future
May 22-24, 2024
In 1924, the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) held its first meeting in Ohio. For 99 years, technical services librarians from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky have met to discuss changing standards in the profession and their effect on local, regional, and national practices. OVGTSL’s centennial meeting will be held May 22-24, 2024 at The Conference Center at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio with an opening reception at The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library in Columbus. At the OVGTSL 2024 Conference, we wish to highlight a century of creative approaches to meeting challenges in technical services among Ohio Valley libraries, including electronic resources, acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, open access initiatives, serials, and more. In taking stock of our past, we can not only appreciate how far we have come in our important work, we can also find inspiration in the work of our predecessors to continue moving forward.
In addition to our typical request for proposals that focus on workflows and practices that you are using in your libraries today, we are especially interested in showcasing presentations on technical services topics with a historical perspective.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Sources of inspiration
- DEI
- Cross-departmental collaboration and beyond
- Emerging trends in discovery and access
- Data-driven decision making
- Tools and processes for large-scale editing of metadata (OpenRefine, MarcEdit, etc.)
- Open access, including open educational resources
- Primary resources and rare collections
- Electronic resources lifecycle management
- Evolving technical services workflows
- Training and supporting staff
- Department reorganization
- Collection assessment
- Large scale weeding projects
- Print and/or acquisitions management
- Work-life balance
This year, the OVGTSL conference will be hybrid. The presentations will be held in-person at The Conference Center at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio. In-person attendees will be able to join one of three concurrent sessions at a time, with personal interaction and social events. Virtual attendees will also be able to attend one concurrent session at a time. All presentations will be recorded and made available for in-person and virtual attendees after the conference until the end of July 2024.
The in-person attendees can bring a guest to the opening reception or Thursday dinner by adding the corresponding guest ticket(s) to their registration.
Thank you for your interest in OVGTSL and supporting our ongoing connection in library technical services. If you are not able to attend OVGTSL 2024, please consider renewing your membership.
Reservations
Embassy Suites Columbus Dublin - 5100 Upper Metro Place, Dublin, Ohio 43017
Room rate: $139 + tax, per room, per night
https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/ohiovalleygrptsl-90w/
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Call 1-800-220-9219
Registration questions? Please email Megan Johnson, OVGTSL Treasurer at johnsonm@oclc.org.
