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1977 new titles cataloged by TS 1281 new titles cataloged by CAT 197 of which were original contributions or national level enhancement 138 titles recataloged 67 titles reconned 365 items withdrawn 5392 new or modified authority records delivered by Marcive 394 local changes made to names on bib records outside of normal cataloging 254 local changes made to subjects on bib records outside of normal cataloging 58 local changes made to series on bib records outside of normal cataloging 80 authority records deleted 6049 volumes in the TS inventory at the Annex on Jan 1, 2008 18528 volumes in the TS inventory at its peak in February 1998
Received and processed: Serials/Periodicals: 2128 Approvals: 974 Added to Acorn SSO's: 111 Gifts: 294 Placed 1238 new orders
Volumes Sent to Bindery 483 monographs 45 rebinds 104 periodicals 26 serials Total 658
Marking 3407 items labeled 276 RUSH Repair 307 volumes were treated with 429 repairs
Technical Services held its annual Christmas party in the Baker Building and invited its neighbors, LITS and TVNews. Alice Cunningham, Yan-xia Zhong, Jo-Nell Owens, and Nancy Boggess-Korekach planned and hosted the event. Many staff contributed home cooked goodies and plenty of holiday spirit.
Sue coordinated the annual GLB Second Harvest food bank drive; staff gave about 10 boxes of food to the bank, including donations from the Baker Building staff..
Roberta served on Central
Collection Development Head search committee and the Special Collections Digital
Collections Archivist search committee. She chaired the E-Resource Librarian
Search Committee. By the end of the month, offers had been made on all three
positions.
Ann Ercelawn served on the e-resources librarian search committee, which hosted two candidates in Nov. Mary Charles Lasater worked with the search committee for the Central Psychology/Sociology Reference/Bibliographer.
Several Technical Services staff attended the presentations of the candidates for the following positions: Head of Collection Development for Central, Central Psychology/Sociology Reference/Bibliographer, Digital Archivist and Systems Librarian in LITS.
Many Technical Services staff attended one of the listening sessions on the search for a new University Librarian.
Gina Berry and Linda Davis worked more on the never-ending holdings project. Mary Charles Lasater, with help from Linda Davis, worked on a new theses project for Special Collections. Linda Davis continued to help Ann Ercelawn on the project to bring in records for the History of Women periodical titles. Don Jones recataloged some old LP’s for the Baudelaire Center from which Yvonne Boyer had made CD copies. Jeff Taylor cataloged more CDs for Music. Jean Wright reports that she is just shy of completing coverage all of the Library of Congress SuDocs holdings on Acorn.
Denise Chavez and Mary Charles Lasater continued work on changing the tagging of Genre headings for films as LC distributes new Genre authority headings. Mary Charles reports that Primo does take advantage of these new tags. Mary Charles Lasater reviewed a number of NACO records for Linda Tesar, who is cataloging interviews with prominent Tennessee people in the legal profession.
Becky Atack achieved independent status for creating series authority records. Her work will no longer have to be reviewed by our trainer, Ann Ercelawn, before being added to the National Authority File.
Zora Breeding worked on adding a couple of new titles for the Gale Virtual Reference Library. She also requested better urls from Gale for about 40-50 previous titles and then exchanged to urls in Acorn.
Ann Ercelawn responded to a number of SFX problem inquiries. She also straightened out some problems in the Informaworld set of titles, including contacting the publisher to fix an incorrect web ISSN that is causing SFX to bring up a title that’s been defunct for 17 years.
Pete Wilson began working with Deborah Lilton and Marshall Breeding on the project to digitize and describe the “Robert Penn Warren tapes” (interviews he conducted with various African American leaders in 1964, actually coming to us on CD) which we received from Yale.
Linda Hand and Mary Ellen Wilson met with Internal Audit to review the past year’s Procurement Card purchases. (Mary Ellen stood in for Monica, who was on vacation in Colombia with her parents.) Both Linda and Monica were commended for the excellent organization of their records. Monica Sanchez kept in touch via e-mail.
Michelle Nielsen-Ott continued her training and learned more about the various types of materials entering the mail room. She worked on firm orders and Latin American approvals. Ibtisam Latif reports that she worked on approvals (Blackwells) and gifts (many). Jo-Nell Owens processed routine serials, sent several to bibliographers for collection decisions, and worked with Management staff regarding the processing of their periodicals. Debbie Williams also processed routine serials and claimed materials online with Ebsco. Debbie also assisted with the processing of several Spanish language gift sets and learned how to export monographic records, as well as flag and route monographs as part of that process.
BINDING: There was only one bindery shipment scheduled during December, so a count of 658 volumes appears low for a monthly total. Like the previous few months, music scores were a big focus for binding. The HF Bindery also provided three different examples of some modified binding methods to accommodate special needs to retain the original spine and cover flaps on Chinese materials. Mary Beth Blalock will choose her preferred approach in January 2008.
MARKING: . Because the shelves were filling up fast, Sue Davis pitched in with some of the physical processing.
REPAIR: . The #1 customer was Divinity Library which is conducting a large Annex transfer project and discovering along the way that age and wear and tear have taken a toll on the older materials. Many volumes need spine repairs, hinge repairs, and super repairs. Charlotte Lew also dealt with a quality control issue of the card board used in the latest wrapper box order. The vendor replaced one box and Charlotte repaired several more.
TS Meetings and Presentations
Mary Charles Lasater, Zora Breeding and Pete Wilson attended 2 Metadata Committee meetings. At one meeting, Steven Nordstrom presented an introduction to XML.
TechForce met twice.
Ann Ercelawn attended meetings of the SFX group, the ERMS group, and the Staff Development Committee.
Becky Atack and Sue Davis attended the University Staff Advisory Council meeting.
Becky Atack attended Hardship Fund committee meetings.
Zora Breeding and Sue Davis attended a webcast on the challenges of film, video, and new media preservation.
Zora Breeding and Marshall Breeding presented a brown bag on their recent trip to Prague, Brno and Vienna.
Sue and Zora met to complete a disaster notebook for TSGLB; similar notebooks filled in across the library system will become the basis for an updated library emergency response plan.
Roberta and Mary Ellen met with John Laraway, Blackwells and with Will Fuqua and Karalyn Kavanaugh, Ebsco. Chris Waldrop joined the Ebsco vendor meeting.