Staff Allocations Project

Time Centers

November 10-17, 2003

 


Overhead Centers: Activities not resulting in products or services but supporting provision of products and services  2

AS  Administrative & Support Services. 2

AU  Automation and Systems. 3

LV  Leave. 3

Product and Service Centers. 3

Common Definitions. 3

AC  Acquisitions. 4

CA  Cataloging. 5

CM  Catalog Maintenance. 6

VP  Volume Preparation. 6

PR  Preservation. 7

DC  Digital Collections: Creation and Management 7

SS  Storage and Stacks Maintenance. 8

CD  Collection Development and Management 8

IN   Instruction. 8

CR  Circulating Materials. 8

IL   Inter-Library Loan and Document Delivery. 9

UA  User Assistance. 9

DP  Development and Public Relations. 10


 

Overhead Centers: Activities not resulting in products or services but supporting provision of products and services

Administrative & Support Services          

AS01 Training, Procedures, and Policies
AS02 Consulting and Problems

·         Liaison work

AS03 Administrative Work

·         Administrative work, statistics review and analysis, reports, memos

·         Job related reading requiring response

·         Planning and strategizing

·         Vision and direction of library initiatives

·         Evaluation and assessment of programs and resources

·         Overseeing operations and services; analyzing, assessing and monitoring services/products; user assessment studies

·         Vendor relationships

·         License negotiations

·         Administrative work covering multiple product centers and cannot be easily divided between product centers

AS04 Meetings: not related to a Product/Service Center

·         All institution sponsored meetings, demonstrations and presentations not related to a specific product/service center.  If the meeting concerns product and service center issues, place time in the appropriate product/service center. Includes travel time to meetings, but if work accomplished during travel, count in appropriate center.

·         Consulting and referring, responding to inquiries

AS05 Other
AS06 Professional Work

·         Research, writing, teaching not included in position description, vitae preparation, professional service, conference attendance and meetings not required by position. Includes travel time to meetings, but if work accomplished during travel, count in appropriate center

AS07 General Reading

·         Informational reading for professional development (journals, books, reports, memos)  

AS08 Staff Development

·         Demonstrations and presentations 

·         Annual performance reviews; employee conferences

·         Recruitment strategy development

AS09 Committee Preparation not Related to a Product/Service Center.

·         Preparation time for committees like library staff association, library faculty, university faculty senate, promotion and tenure committee activities, university committees, selection committees, interinstitutional committees.

AS10 Office Management

·         Typing, filing, organizing, sorting, photocopying, inputting and editing, statistics compilation, scheduling meetings and appointments, completing questionnaires, maintaining calendars, travel arrangements, etc.

AS11 Business Activities

·         Supplies maintenance and acquisition

·         Mail room functions

AS12 Building Activities

·         Maintenance and monitoring

·         Opening and closing activities

·         Planning and construction activities

AS13 Grants Preparation and Maintenance
AS14 Personnel Activities
AS15 Budget Activities
AS16 Copyright Management

 

Automation and Systems

AU01    Training, Procedures, and Policies

·         Limited to general knowledge training and demonstrations that cannot be limited to a specific Center (e.g. E-mail training). If intended for performing tasks in a Center (e.g. acquisition vendor system), record time in appropriate Center. If supports work in more than one Center, split time accordingly. Allocate training time to the appropriate Center whenever possible

·         Demonstrations and presentations 

·         Procedure and policy documentation 

·         Revising of other’s work when done as a separate task

AU02    Consulting

·         Consulting and responding to inquiries and questionnaires

·         Liaison work

AU03 Administrative Work
AU04 Meetings

AU05 Other

AU06    Solving Problems and Maintaining Software/Hardware

·         Diagnosing and handling problems with hardware and software and other automation related activities. Checking records for system functionality

AU07    Installing Software/Hardware

·         Setting up/installing software. Reading and deciphering documentation, calling vendors, initializing disks. Hooking up and maintaining hardware

AU08    Programming and Application Development

·         Programming, developing applications, setting up databases and spread sheets, documenting

·         General Web design support and digital services support

AU09    Network/Workstation Management

·         Tape and file processing; backing up; loading and copying new records and indices

·          Organizing and maintaining file structures

 

Leave

LV01 Vacation
LV02 Sick Leave
LV03 Holiday

 

Product and service Centers

Common Definitions

Training, Revision, Procedures, and Policies

·         Training: Used by individuals training others and staff being trained who are accomplishing no work. If work is accomplished, time is counted in appropriate task.

·         Demonstrations and presentations

·         Procedure and policy documentation

·         Revision of other’s work when done as a separate task

Consulting and Problems

·         Consulting and responding to inquiries and questionnaires, including e-mail

·         Problem-solving falling outside of normal procedures and guidelines. Often work is referred because an individual did not know how to proceed. Does not refer to complex investigation or verification which is part of an assigned task

·         Liaison work

Administrative Work

·         See activities listed under AS03

·         If the administrative work covers more than one product or service center, split time between product/service centers.  If  the administrative work covers many product/service centers or library-wide issues, place time in AS03

Meetings

·         All time spent in meetings

·         If a meeting covers more than one product or service center, split time between product/service centers.  If a meeting covers many product/service centers or is administrative in nature, place time in AS04

Other

·         Use for unusual activities that are not identified by the center definitions

Acquisitions

AC01 Training, Revision, Procedures, and Policies
AC02 Consulting and Problems
AC03 Administrative Work

·         Evaluating costs, terms, and sources; vendor analysis and report preparation

AC04 Meetings

AC05 Other

·         Mail preparation (labels, boxes, envelopes)

·         Sorting, shelving, distributing

·         Other

AC06 Searching

·         All pre-order searching (resulting records may be used for both cataloging and ordering purposes) and searching of gifts for a retention decision

AC07 Ordering

·         All creation of order records and first-time preparation of check-in records (on or off-line) Assigning vendors and determining exchange partners

·         Estimating prices and verifying discounts

·         Serial source changes

AC08 Record Maintenance

·         Claims, cancellations, and all correspondence

·         Updating order and check-in records

·         All associated record filing and pulling

AC08.1 Record Maintenance - Firm Orders, Continuations