Massachusetts Library Association

Technical Services Section

We invite all technical services librarians and paralibrarians to join the Technical Services Section (TSS) of the Massachusetts Library Association (MLA).

Even if you’ve never served on a MLA committee or any professional committee, fear not. By checking off TSS on your MLA member application or renewal, you are a bona fide member and you need not be an officer to attend a meeting. There are no extra dues to be a TSS member.

We organize and sponsor 3-4 programs at the MLA annual conference, as well as occasional stand-alone workshops, on such topics as Successful Selling (how to make your book sale more profitable), Numerology (what does Technical Services cost your library), Connecting With Multilingual Communities (collection development for non-English speakers), etc.

Join us! Meet your colleagues! Enhance your skills and knowledge!

For more information please contact: TSS Chair, Cecile Bianco at Cecile.Bianco@umassmed.edu

Section Charge:

Technical Services

The objectives of the Section are: to provide a forum for discussion and programming dealing with technical services and technology; to maintain and enhance career awareness; to facilitate the exchange of information on recent developments in technical services and technology; and to respond to the changes in accordance with the membership's wishes.

MLA Technical Services Section Executive Board Slate of Officers for 2009-2010

Vice Chair/ Chair Elect
Alyssa Freden
Special Collection Cataloger
Webster Veterinary Library
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

Member-at-Large (term expires June 2011)
Damaris Chapin-Berner
Technical Services
Claire T. Carney Library
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Secretary
Heather Stone
Technical Services Librarian
New England College of Optometry

 

MLA Technical Services Section Executive Board 2008-2009

Chair
Cecile Bianco
Assistant Catalog Librarian
The Lamar Soutter Library
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA  01655-0002
Phone: 508-856-2368
Fax: 508-856-8363
E-Mail: Cecile.Bianco@umassmed.edu

Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Jennifer B. Forgit
Technical Services Associate
Pembroke Public Library
142 Center Street
Pembroke, MA 02359
Phone: 781-293-6771
Fax: 781-294-0742
E-Mail: jbunton@sailsinc.org

Past Chair:
Wei Jeng-Chu
Technology Division Head
Worcester Public Library
3 Salem Square
Worcester, MA 01608
Phone: 508-799-1726
Fax: 508-799-1652
E-Mail: wjenchu@cwmars.org

Secretary:
Lydia Pittman
Head of Technical Services
Brennan Library
Lasell College
80A Maple Street
Newton, MA 02466
Phone: 617-243-2207
Fax: 617-243-2458
E-Mail: lpittman@lasell.edu

Membership Chair: 
Lois Claire Bacon
Director, Publisher Services
EBSCO Walpole
1600 Providence Highway
Suite 145
Walpole, MA 02081
Phone: 508-850-7580 ext. 3016
Fax: 508-850-7583
E-Mail: lbacon@ebsco.com

Member-at-Large (term expires June 2009):
Catherine Willis
Technical Services Manager
Boston Public Library
700 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-859-2201
Fax: 617-424-1040
E-Mail:  cwillis@bpl.org

Member-at-Large (term expires June 2010):
Jeremy Goldstein
Technical Services Supervisor
Berkshire Athenaeum
1 Wendell Ave.
Pittsfield, MA 01201-6385
Phone: 413-499-9480 ext. 115
Fax: 413-499-9489E-_Mail: jgoldste@cwmars.org

Meeting Schedule:

Check out the MLA calendar of events for the next Technical Services Section meeting

Click here to read our bylaws
 

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