**Excuse the cross-posting**

Let’s Get Technical is a column in the journal Against the Grain which focuses on practical problems and solutions in Technical Services departments. Columns are typically 1500 words in length.

Some topics that are under consideration:

• Text and Data Mining licensing and workflow issues from patron to access
• Issues and workflows around OER
• Assessment and review processes of on-going commitments
• Discovery and access issues
• Budgeting for and managing streaming media (film and audio)
• Collecting models for monographs: EBA, PDA, DDA, and approval
• Acquisitions and ILL workflows and collaboration
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion in technical services (collecting, cataloging, management)
• Managing university accessibility requirements for electronic resources
• Course reserves – physical versus online material needs and issues
• Cataloging and metadata workflows and solutions
• Data clean-up and other inventory issues
• Any of the above topics with an emphasis on shared environments

What other problems have you found a solution for?  We would like to hear from a wide variety of voices!

Proposals should include: 

• Article title
• Abstract or summary (less than 200 words)
• Name, title, affiliation, and email address for all writers

Please send proposed article submissions to the Let’s Get Technical column co-editors: Kyle Banerjee ([log in to unmask]) and Susan Martin ([log in to unmask]).