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		<title>Transformation Team Wrapping Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the submission of the consultants&#8217; report last week and this week&#8217;s Town Hall meetings with Jeff, the Transformation Team is winding down.
In the coming weeks, Jeff and the AULs will be reviewing the consultant&#8217;s report and work of the team in more detail. This review process will guide our progress toward a 21st century [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=33&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consultants&#8217; Report Released Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Trzeciak, McMaster University Librarian, released the Report from Consultants Peter Hausdorf and Karen Boa today.
Entitled &#8220;Stakeholder Review of the McMaster University Library Transformation Initiative&#8221; the report outlines 21 recommendations in the areas of Operations, Staffing, Teaching, Research and Partnerships.
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&#8220;Successful organizational change can be linked to four key components:

leadership and employee commitment
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		<title>&#8220;What I Want From My Library&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, October 2 we heard from three faculty colleagues about how they use/view our libraries: Dr. Brian Detlor (Business), Dr. Claude Eilers (Classics) and Dr. Geoffrey Rockewell (Multimedia). Stay tuned for a summary from the Transformation Team. Or post one yourself!
We&#8217;ve posted slides from Brian Detlor and Claude Eilers (though you really had to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=22&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transformation Consultants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consultants Peter Hausdorf and Karen Boa have  been hired to work with the Transformation Team. They were selected because of their work in strategic human resources, and because Peter (the Lead Consultant) has a connection with McMaster. He received his PhD from the School of Business in Business Administration specializing in Human  Resources [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=20&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Ridley on &#8220;The 21st Century Library:  What could it look like?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Transformation Team invited Mike Ridley from the University of Guelph to join our transformation conversation today.  We had seventy-two people turn out to hear his provocative talk. I wish we had podcast it, but we digital immigrants on the Transformation Team didn&#8217;t think of it! However, his slides are available, and the library [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=19&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transforming Libraries &amp; Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue (August 2006) of American Libraries, the monthly newsletter of the American Library Association, includes a message from new ALA President Leslie Burger.
With an eye to both libraries and the communities they support, Berger will be focusing on transformation during her year-long term as President. In her message, Berger recognizes that, &#8220;librarians and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=18&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Cataloguing? &#8212; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks since I posted part 1. In that post, I touched on some of the common themes emerging from my readings of various papers on the future of catalogues and cataloguing.
As I mentioned there, I think we need to give serious thought to these common strategies. In particular, I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=17&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Cataloguing? &#8212; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading through various documents on directions that cataloguing and description might take. Some of the reports are listed here. 
The full reports are well worth reading. If pressed for time (and who isn’t?), the executive summary of the University of California report and Karen Calhoun’s “Blueprint for Phased Implementation” (p. 16) are useful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=12&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing Change?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us participated in an &#8220;Embracing Change&#8221; workshop earlier this summer and recognize that change involves a lot of uncertainty. Since the Transformation Team was established many colleagues have asked me &#8211; &#8216;what exactly will this change look like?&#8217; or  &#8216;what exactly am I supposed to embrace?&#8217; My answer: we don&#8217;t know. yet.
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		<title>McMaster Libraries 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Libraries today are at the heart of unprecedented change.  This change is fueled primarily by new technologies, new resources and new services that were unimaginable as recently as three years ago.  Never before have the challenges we face been so exciting or the opportunities so great.    
Increasingly our organizations are being called upon to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ultransform.wordpress.com&blog=358204&post=1&subd=ultransform&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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