Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) is pleased to announce our 81st Annual Meeting:
Choosing Your Battles
Friday April 6, 2018 • 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
San Francisco Public Library • Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Enter at 30 Grove Street and proceed to the Koret Auditorium on the Lower Level

Register Here
Choosing Your Battles
We all agree people who work in libraries are amazing, right? It's rare that we do just one or two things in our day-to-day job. We work with systems and people, print and electronic, old and new, bulk and unique. Even so, we can't do everything, no matter how much someone wants us to. Thus this year's theme: Choosing Your Battles. Our speakers will share how they re-examined and reshaped their workflows to meet modern needs and capacities. Make time for new skills within current duties. Discern best practices from outmoded habits. Get buy-in to let go and say no.
We're going to tap the experience of all our NCTPG members as well. We’ll have space available throughout the day to post problems and gather ideas, and network.
As always, we aim for a broad representation of types of libraries (public, academic, special) and a diverse representation of roles within and around technical services.
Programs & Speakers
For presentation abstracts and more information, please see our website.

Permanent Collections vs Temporary Collections: Considering the Future of Academic Library Collection Development
Michael Levine-Clark - Dean of Libraries, University of Denver

Raising the Bar on High Volume Depositories: Barcode-based Accession Shelving
Agustin Castaneda - Print Materials Manager & Ricardo Dominguez - Library Page Supervisor
University of Southern California

A New Workflow for Thesis Cataloging
Jason Vasché - Catalog & Metadata Coordinator, San Francisco State University

Lightning Talks

Before and After: Seeing is Believing
Yu-Lan Chou - Program Coordinator for Technical Services, Santa Clara City Library

Weeding Made Easy and Green
Wen-Ying Lu - Head of Cataloging, Santa Clara University

Problem Sharing Activity

Have a problem? Someone (probably) has an answer!
Facilitated by Michelle Paquette - Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, Stanford University

When you join us at our annual meeting this year, please come thinking of ONE problem you have at work that you need help with. Among our members' varied skill sets, there will probably be at least one person at the meeting who has the knowledge you're looking for, and we're going to help you find them. You'll get to know your fellow NCTPG members a bit while simultaneously helping you get one step closer to solving that problem.
Tours
We continue our new tradition of hosting optional tours after the annual meeting.

Registration & Information
Register online to start or renew your membership and attend the Annual Meeting.
$35 in advance, $40 at the door.
For more information about the annual meeting and programs, please see our website.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Rice Majors at rmajors@scu.edu or you can email us at nctpg1@gmail.com.
This is not a San Francisco Public Library Sponsored Program. Please use public contact information provided above.
Note: Refreshments are not allowed in the Auditorium.

About NCTPG
The Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) is an independent organization affiliated with the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services of the American Library Association. We host programs and forums for exchanging ideas about libraries and the technical processes that make them run.