NASIG Autumn 2024

1. Core Competencies and Acquisitions Job Ads: How Well Do They Match?

Core competencies provide a baseline understanding of the knowledge, skills, and abilities that practitioners should have, and are especially important in rapidly changing fields. NASIG first approved the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians in 2013, and those for Print Serials Management in 2015. A key component of Serials and Electronic Resources work is acquisitions; the other competency statements for acquisitions were developed by ALCTS in 2018. Do these competencies still reflect the needs of acquisitions leaders in academic libraries? The researchers have begun collecting recent job advertisements to analyze which competencies are most included and whether there are gaps to address.


2. Workflows, workarounds, and workouts: Successful cataloging from a distance

Stockton University’s Richard E. Bjork Library will be undergoing a massive renovation, displacing everyone in the library for at least 2 years. Library departments have started to move into various classrooms all over the main campus while Library Administration and the Metadata Librarian have been “housed” in a small ranch-style home over 2 miles away from the main campus. This presentation will highlight the early attempts to stay connected and revise workflows, despite being physically apart from the rest of the cataloging staff.