“What Do You Do?”: Talking about Technical Services in Library School
Adrienne Nguyen
Scholarly Resources and Metadata Law Librarian
University of California, Irvine Law Library
eCAUG Lightning Talk
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Outline
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Context
The Problem
What I Have Done
Suggestions
Context
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Librarian in library school
Predominant image of librarianship
Opportunities to answer, “What do you do?” and talk up colleagues
Limited knowledge of day-to-day of colleagues
The Problem
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The System?
LMS
Catalog
Processing
Cataloguing
Electronic Resources
Collection Development
Acquisitions
What I Have Done
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Talked about my day-to-day in collection development
Talked about colleagues in acquisitions and electronic resources
Emphasized nothing works on the front end without people working the back end
Suggestions
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Greater Awareness of Technical Services
Alumni opportunities
Talking with colleagues
Cross-departmental collaboration
Student workers
Marketing
Questions? More suggestions?�Tell me what your day-to-day looks like!
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