--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:38:49 -0800 (PST) From: Aimee Quinn <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Info needed on merging documents with other areas please Do you know a library that merged Documents with Reference? Do you know a reference librarian or an administrator at a library that has merged a previously separate government documents department with reference services? Do you know a reference librarian or an administrator at a library that has created a separate government documents department whose functions previously had been part of reference services? The Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) Program Committee is seeking panelists for its 1999 program at ALA Conference. We want to have as a panelist an administrator, a technical services librarian, a reference librarian, and a documents librarian for whom merging government documents departments with other departments in the library has been a positive experience. We also want to have as a panelist another librarian in each category for whom merging the departments has been a negative experience. Details about the program are below: Name of group: Government Documents Round Table Program Day: Monday Program Date: June 28, 1999 Program Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12 noon Program title: "To Merge or Not to Merge--What Are the Questions?: Integrating Documents Units into Reference or Technical Services." Program description: A moderated panel discussion of the pros and cons of integrating government documents functions into reference and technical services departments and of what factors and strategies can help if the transition is necessary. Includes speakers from administration, government documents, reference, and technical services. Topics include training, acquisitions and serial cataloging, staffing levels, automation issues, levels of reference service, coordination of documents collection development with the rest of the collection, and user perspectives. Thanks for any information you can provide to me. Please send your responses to me rather than to the list. Larry Romans, Political Science Bibliographer and Head, Government Information Services, Central Library, Vanderbilt University, 419 - 21st Ave. South Nashville TN 37240-0007 phone (615) 322-2838; FAX (615) 343-7451 E-mail (office): [log in to unmask] E-mail (home): [log in to unmask] --- End Forwarded Message ---