Mohican 2012: Radical Opportunities, New Trends for Technical Services

Hosted by the OLC’s Technical Services Division

October 2-3, 2012

Mohican State Park Lodge and Conference Center

Loudonville, Ohio

Technical services staff in Ohio's public libraries find themselves on a continual journey through an evolving landscape of changing formats, standards, services, and administrative demands.  Limited resources, increased competition, and shifting standards and priorities may sometimes make us feel like we've reached the end of the trail.  But through the tangles and around every bend lies a fresh perspective.  With the right skill sets and a grasp of managed risk for guidance, technical services will forge ahead to new vistas.

Join your colleagues from Ohio and beyond at Mohican 2012, the Ohio Library Council’s recurring two-day retreat for library technical services specialists, to discuss issues ranging from cataloging to preservation, automation to authority control, and collection management to marketing and advocacy.  The transitional realities and necessities of today's library world call for hard choices in technical services as elsewhere.  Discover the radical opportunities presented by the latest trends in economics, demographics, and technology: what's impacting us now, what the future could look like, and the real-world paths we can take to get there.

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Deberah England
Electronic Resources Librarian
Wright State University Libraries
3640 Col. Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435-0001

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