Notes
Outline
Vanderbilt University Library
Time and Cost Analysis
Tested Staff Allocations Project Centers & Tasks
Adequacy of definitions
Issues with recording time
Data collected November 10-16, 2003 (cannot generalize to full year)
Costs include benefits
Organizational area participating: Library Administration, Central Library (Social Science & Humanities), Divinity Library, Science & Engineering Library, Special Collections, Technical Services, Technology, ILL
Non-participants: Law, Biomedical, Peabody (Education), Music, Management
Vanderbilt Results November 10-16, 2003
Staff Allocations Project
Centers
Product & Service Centers: 14
Overhead Centers: 3
Paid Leave
Automation & Systems
Administrative & Support Services
Administration, Meetings, Professional Work, General Reading, Staff Development, Office Management, Business & Building Activities, Grants, Personnel, Budget
Staff Allocations Project
Product Centers
Acquisitions
Catalog Maintenance
Cataloging
Circulating Materials
Collection Dev. & Management
Conversion or Major Projects
Development & PR
Digital Collections
ILL & Doc. Delivery
Instruction
Preservation
Storage & Stacks
User Assistance
Volume Preparation
Vanderbilt Staff Time
Vanderbilt Technical Services Centers
Vanderbilt’s Centers Combined
Vanderbilt’s Largest Tasks
Vanderbilt Center Costs
Vanderbilt Staff Costs
Vanderbilt Percentages: Cost & Time
Vanderbilt Costs: Overhead Centers Combined
Vanderbilt Costs: Overhead Center Costs
Spread to Product Centers
Vanderbilt’s Most Expensive Tasks
Staff Allocations Project
Results of Vanderbilt’s Test
Added Product Centers
Electronic Resources
Manuscripts & Archives Processing
Renamed Conversion and Major Projects Center
Major Projects Center
Revised ILL & Document Delivery Center
Correlated with ARL ILL
Expanded definitions
Changed production category to Filled Transactions
Tasks
Added
Renamed
Expanded definitions
Staff Allocations Project: Next Steps
Gather more time and cost data
Next time study: February 23-29, 2004
Participants
Vanderbilt University Library
Notre Dame University Library
Results of next time study
Evaluate centers and tasks
Analyze results of each library
Compare results of two libraries