Introduction: The Challenges Facing Library Technical Services: A Dialogue / Rebecca Ciota and R. Cecilia Knight
Challenge One: The Evolution of Library Cataloging and Metadata
From Records to Data: The New Purposes of Cataloging / Kara D. Long
Measuring Metadata Quality: A User Research Approach / Erin Elzi and Kevin Clair
Technical Services Advocacy: Partnerships in the Library and Beyond / Bridget Euliano, Peggy Griesinger, Kimberley A. Edwards, and Tricia Mackenzie
A Road Taken: A Cataloging Team Becomes a Metadata Team / Scott M. Dutkiewicz and Jessica L. Serrao
Challenge Two: Improving Collection Evaluation and Management
Assessing the Work of Technical Services Through an In-Depth Analysis of Physical Resource Usage / Laura Kirkland
Building Better Collections Through Relationships: Sharing Expertise During Collection Downsizing / Mary C. Aagard, Nancy Rosenheim, Marlena Hooyboer, and Cheri A. Folkner
Bound for the Stacks: Strategic Rightsizing and Classification of Print Journals Collections / Emily A. Hicks and Fred W. Jenkins
Space Reclamation: The Cataloging Department's Role in Weeding Projects / Muriel D. Nero and Jia He
Relocating, Downsizing, and Merging: Inventory Projects to Manage Change in a Digital Environment / Gail Perkins Barton and Rachel Elizabeth Scott
Challenge Three: Rethinking Library Space Usage
For Efficiency's Sake: Consolidating Workflows, Managing Change, and Positioning Ourselves for the Future / Mary S. Laskowski and Jennifer A. Maddox Abbott
A Framework for Addressing the Psychological Aspects of Relocating Technical Services Off-Site / Christine Korytnyk Dulaney
Building an Infrastructure: Integrating Access and Technical Services for Improved Service Quality Utilizing a Supply Chain Model / Karen Glover, Elizabeth Winter, and Emy Decker
Challenge Four: Staffing Technical Services
Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services / Rhonda Y. Kauffman and Martina S. Anderson
Creative Solutions to Technical Services Staffing Challenges in an Academic Library / Meghan Banach Bergin and Sally Krash
Auraria Library: One Technical Services Department, Three Institutions / Sommer Browning
Redefining the Pie: Doing More With Less in Technical Services / Monika Glowacka-Musial, Ellen Bosman, and John Sandstrom
Crossing Conventional Lines: Innovative Staffing and Cross-Training in Technical Services / Lisa Kallman Hopkins
Challenging the Status Quo: Collaboration and Creativity in Small Academic Libraries / Susanne Markgren
Out From the Shadows: Transforming Technical Services During an Academic Library's Reorganization / Courtney McAllister
Technical Metamorphosis by Design / Maaike Oldemans and Jennifer Kronenbitter
Responding to Evolutionary Workflow Challenges Through Staffing Adaptation: A Play in Five Acts / Kimberly W. Stevens, Mary Bevis, Bethany Latham, and Jodi Poe
Challenge Five: Government Documents Collections in a Digital Era
Using CRDP to Manage Cataloging in a Federal Depository Library / Edith K. Beckett
Bridging Functions: Government Publications Librarians as Technical and Public Service Ambassadors / McKinley Sielaff
Challenge Six: Adapting for the Future
Facing Distance Education Challenges in the Library Through Collaboration Between Technical and Public Service Departments: A Case Study / Katherine Hill and Samantha Harlow
Evolving Ethos and Etiquette: Why and How We Altered Our Library-Vendor Relationships / Laurel Sammonds Crawford and Allyson Rodriguez
Adopting Agile: Workflow and Personnel Management in Technical Services at a Small Academic Library / Paromita Biswas.