Thursday, April 12, 2018

Call for Panelists: New and Successful ways to Manage Library IT (ALA Annual 2018 - New Orleans)

Call for Panelists: New and Successful ways to Manage Library IT
URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4qpYpJZSJC2tFlqJFCKq8gHQIJrZq-GwmBlM5xCXOvX79vg/viewform?c=0&w=1

Have you found a way to make managing a project feel less like herding cats? Is staff scheduling as easy as a button click? The Open Source Systems and Heads of Library Technology Interest Groups encourage you to submit a panelist proposal. This panel will be held at ALA Annual 2018 in New Orleans on June 23 from 9 to 10 am. Please have your proposal submitted by May 13, 2018.

Suggested topics include:
- Project Management
- Library Automation
- Staff Scheduling
- Documentation and Knowledge base management

Panel Description: As technology changes, the way IT is managed must be able to keep pace. With the newer and free technologies that are emerging, the Heads of Library Technology and Opensource Systems Interest Groups have assembled a panel representing different size libraries to discuss how they manage their IT systems.