Technical Services
Monthly Report
Jan. 2007
DIVISION-WIDE ACTIVITIES:
We are happy to welcome Steven Nordstrom,
the new Music cataloger, to our cataloging community. Don Jones and Zora
Breeding met with Steven and Holling Smith-Borne
to assess what Steven’s training needs would be.
Zora Breeding, Mary Charles Lasater and Ann Ercelawn met with
Steven individually to introduce him to local practices in general cataloging,
authorities and series. Ann Ercelawn will continue to handle Music serials at least until
the new serial standards have been implemented in about May.
On Jan. 29, the movers came to
move Roberta Winjum to her new office in the GLB,
and relocate Mary Ellen Wilson’s and Janice Adlington's
offices; all phone numbers remain the same.
Sue
Davis resumed meeting with Bill Hook about library disaster planning. He had heard that the university wants the schools
to plan a response to a possible influenza pandemic (Ex: bird flu). This
kind of planning falls under the general umbrella of disaster response planning,
so Bill and Sue discussed a library system response, and shared this info
with Library Directors at one of their meetings.
Sue
Davis happily reports that the 2005/2006 ARL Preservation Statistics Questionnaire
was completed on time, even beating the deadline by a few days.
Sue Davis and Charlotte Lew offered an
Introduction to Preservation Concepts workshop on Jan. 11. A larger than usual group of staff attended
the workshop and they had plenty of good questions, so the session lasted
two hours. Another Intro session is
planned for later this spring.
For the first time in several years, all of the librarians in CAT
attended
Yuh-Fen Benda met the two
candidates for the new faculty position in Chinese Literature and attended
one of their presentations.
Mary Charles Lasater attended the meeting
with Ex Libris on Primo and worked very hard preparing
for the implementation.
Molly Dahl and Janice Adlington were asked
to serve on the Web Management Team for the Heard Website and began meetings
with that group.
Ann Ercelawn is one of three members of
a MARCit! focus group dedicated to developing an
interface for record editing, which held its first meeting in Jan.
Some attended the OCLC e-serials holdings web session, the brown
bag on GIS, the brown bag on the Staff Development Web, Chris and Yu-Fen Benda’s
discussion of their trip to Japan, and the lecture on how search engines work
by Yahoo’s Jan D. Pedersen.
Many staff attended the Donuts & Coffee session with library
administration.
CATALOGING AND AUTHORITIES:
During the catalogers absence at ALA, Becky Atack,
Ann Barnette, Gina Berry and Jeff Taylor were able
to handle the many rush requests for videos and other material. Jean Wright threw herself on the pile of documents.
Denise Chavez held back the authorities emergencies, and Linda Davis maintained
everything else.
Linda Davis met with Ann Carey to show her the local procedure for
creating call records and deleting items for bindery titles.
Mary Charles Lasater spent some time investigating
a MeSH update with Marcive
and LITS.
Susan Bell completed several more honors theses for inclusion into
the VU e-Archive.
Zora Breeding, Mary Charles Lasater,
Gina Berry, Molly Dahl, Jeff Taylor and Becky Atack
divided up the new Cambridge Companions Online Collection titles and were
able to create access to the 200+ new titles within a few days. The library really wanted access to these for
the Spring semester.
Jeff Taylor processed a small shipment of
Gina Berry and Linda Davis worked on adding PAL to the call number
of all the PAL videos in Central's collection that did not already have this
designation (about 40 or so titles), at the request of the Media Center.
Yuh-Fen Benda and Linda
Davis finished the project to prepare the gift Japanese periodicals for the
shelves.
Jeff Taylor reclassified some
Gina Berry found time to continue the project to bring in OCLC records
for the previously minimally cataloged videotapes in the
Statistics:
2192 new titles cataloged by TS
1313 new titles cataloged by CAT
144 of which were original contributions or national level enhancements
306 titles recataloged
69 titles reconned
506 items withdrawn
5034 new or modified authority records delivered by Marcive
360 local changes made to names on bib records outside of normal
cataloging
172 local changes made to subjects on bib records outside of normal
cataloging
93 local changes made to series on bib records outside of normal
cataloging
E-RESOURCES
Activities:
posted 5 trials to the E-trials blog