Resource Services
Preservation Team

Office Location: General Library Building, Rooms 408, 408A, and 813
Mailing Address: 419 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240
Telephone: (615) 322-3504 Fax: (615) 343-1292

The Preservation Team binds, labels, and repairs library materials for Resource Services customer libraries. Staff are responsible for selecting appropriate binding methods for materials sent to the bindery as well as maintaining a binding database. Staff generate spine labels for monograph, unbound serials, and non-book items. Repair lab staff treat items from all Heard libraries, including Eskind Biomedical and Law. Treatments range from simple page tip-ins to spine replacements to clamshell boxes. High quality physical processing is a top priority for all team members. The team is available to assist you in deciding what kind of preservation treatment is most appropriate for your library materials. Contact appropriate individuals below with specific questions.

Team Members

Sue Davis

Telephone: 322-2464
E-Mail address: daviss@library.vanderbilt.edu

Sue leads the team and also serves as preservation librarian for the Heard Library system. Sue will be happy to consult on any preservation-related issue such as disaster response planning, collection environmental control, material handling issues and staff training. Another resource for preservation information is the web. CoOL is one of the best sites.

Machelle Keen

Telephone: 322-3504

E-Mail address: keen@library.vanderbilt.edu

Machelle's foremost responsibility is to input data in LARS for all bindery materials except Central Library's custom monographs. She also sorts monographs into appropriate binding tracks. Machelle updates serial holdings in Acorn as the the items are bound. She shares bindery invoice processing and binding problem-solving with Karen Pillow. She also manages monthly binding statistics.

Sheranda Lee

E-Mail address: lees@library.vanderbilt.edu

Sheranda's responsibilities focus primarily on processing periodical binding shipments, both incoming and outgoing, and RUSH labeling. She charges incoming marking books on Acorn. She also updates Acorn holdings for branch library periodicals sent to the bindery.

Charlotte Lew

Charlotte is the lead book repair technician and is responsible for quality control in the book repair lab's work. The in-house repair program has been designed to complement the commercial binding program. Treatment options include tip-ins, spine replacements, recasing, and protective enclosures.

Ann Mallette

Telephone: 343-1968

E-Mail Address: mallette@library.vanderbilt.edu

Ann's major tasks are to label monographs and unbound serials. The labeling process includes stamping with the Heard Library ownership stamp, gluing in gift plates, and adding security strips as well as generating the spine labels themselves. She makes book deliveries to various areas within the GLB.

Karen Pillow

Telephone: 343-7255

E-Mail address: pillow@library.vanderbilt.edu

Karen has two main responsibilities. A major portion of her time is spent coordinating daily marking workflow. She shares binding processing oversight responsibilities with Machelle. Karen inputs data into LARS for Central Library's custom monographs. She processes serials; keeps track of monthly marking data, and shares bindery invoice processing and binding problem-solving with Machelle.

Patti Skipper

Telephone : 343-7255

E-Mail address: skipper@library.vanderbilt.edu

Patti spends most of her time processing different types of monograph binding for both outgoing and incoming binding shipments. She updates Acorn holdings for Central periodicals sent to the bindery.

Daphne Walker

Telephone: 343-1250

E-Mail address: walkerd@library.vanderbilt.edu

Daphne works part time in the book repair lab and performs the full range of book repair treatments.

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Last updated 8/19/2002