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2078 new titles cataloged by TS 1133 new titles cataloged by CAT 178 of which were original contributions or national level enhancements 151 titles recataloged 7 titles reconned 524 items withdrawn 108 Podcasts and other submissions added to the VU e-Archive 21830 new or modified authority records delivered by Marcive 555 local changes made to names on bib records outside of normal cataloging 98 local changes made to subjects on bib records outside of normal cataloging 208 local changes made to series on bib records outside of normal cataloging 54 authority records deleted 21830 new or modified authority records delivered by Marcive 555 local changes made to names on bib records outside of normal cataloging 98 local changes made to subjects on bib records outside of normal cataloging 208 local changes made to series on bib records outside of normal cataloging 54 authority records deleted
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Binding:
842 Monographs
103 Rebinds
689 Periodicals
0 Serials
1,634 Total
Rebarcoding: 269
Marking:
3601 Total
230 RUSH
Repair:
210 volumes
549 treatments (includes many oversize inches)
Sue became the official TS button-tester for the faculty delivery/rush request buttons merger project. The complicated nature of resolving which button should go with which location made the process messier than anticipated, but the end is in sight.
The Cataloging Team held a small retirement party for Ann Barnette on May 30, her last working day . Ann is retiring after 34 years with the library as a copy cataloger. None of us can remember a time without Ann’s quiet presence. She has been a good friend and our social conscience. We have been enriched by her company and will miss her terribly
Mary Charles Lasater worked with Peabody Library staff on procedures for the final phase of their unconverted master's theses project. She also contacted Steven Nordstrom about the Music titles within that thesis collection. Mary Charles also worked on the Special Collections theses project.
Jeff Taylor received and processed a few additional electronic theses.
Mary Charles Lasater and Ann Barnette worked on the subject work on more of the new theses, both print and electronic.
The libraries began the usual summer mass weeding and withdrawing projects. Linda Davis has been kept busy withdrawing (524 titles) and editing volume holdings of titles sent to the bindery (293 titles).
Gina Berry and Linda Davis worked more on the never-ending holdings project.
Linda Davis worked on the project to edit volume holding records for CDROM ProQuest periodicals project.
Mary Charles Lasater reports that many authority functions in Acorn have stopped working. Major reports don't work at all including the 'links' that change bibliographic headings based on changes to authority records. LITS folks are working with Sirsi to get the problems resolved. If the problem is not resolved, headings will have to be changed one at a time, instead of globally. Searching and retrieval in Webcat and DiscoverLibrary are affected. We are hopeful that LITS and Sirsi will fix this soon.
Denise Chavez did some follow-up work with Angel and Yan-Xia in checking unauthorized headings lists to help with a backlog.
Ann Ercelawn assisted Ronee Francis with templates for the Hustler and Tunnel Vision files for the VU e-Archive.
Susan Bell completed the metadata on 7 new submissions to the VU e-Archive.
Don Jones created metadata for 5 honors theses for the Department of Physics and Astronomy Community in the VU e-Archives.
Mary Charles Lasater also created metadata for honors theses in the VU e-Archive.
The Podcast group, Ann Ercelawn, Pete Wilson, Zora Breeding, Molly Dahl and Jeff Taylor, added metadata to 86 more podcasts for the VU e-Archive. Fewer submissions were made in May due to some issues with a new version being tested and a matter of duplication between collections, and also some staff absences. But progress is being made and we have really enjoyed working with Ronee Francis to gain more control of the process of creating and editing metadata.
Ann Ercelawn did some spring cleaning of the Acorn/DiscoverLibrary database by working on a list of errors on SFX records and deduping the series authority file. She reported some of the false hits on Marcit records and answered a few SFX problem queries.
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BINDING: The most important binding news is the completion and signing of the 2008-09 binding contract. Sue reviewed and revised the entire contract, negotiated prices, and, for the first time ever, built in a fuel surcharge. The new prices average about 15% higher than the current ones, but that is partially the result of locking in prices for the three previous years under the old contract. The new contract will go into effect on July 1, 2008 and will be renewed annually. The current price list is posted at: http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/RS/restricted/MAB0506Prices.htm and the new 08/09 price list is posted at: http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/rs/restricted/VUBindingPrices0809.htm
With the year end wave of returned books comes a lot of rebinding. Both Sheranda Lee and Alla Foliyev were kept busy rebarcoding the items before sending them to the bindery.
MARKING: Marking has remained steady with RUSH requests settling down for the summer.
REPAIR: As mentioned above the staff in the repair lab hefted, measured for boxes, and then boxed some very, very large folio volumes for Special Collections. Each of the steps in the procedure required two people to maneuver the volumes because of their size and weight. Charlotte generated call number labels as well because there is not enough room in the Binding/Marking workstations for volumes this big. Charlotte and Sue delivered the volumes back to Special Collections and ended up wrangling them back to the shelves from whence they came.
Ann Ercelawn coordinated a brown bag presentation by Andrea George from VU’s office of sustainability.
Ann E. and Sue Davis volunteered to serve on the GLB's newly formed Green Team..
Mary Charles Lasater, in her role as chair of ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section, was very busy in preparation for ALA Annual with work on programs, CCS Exec activities and ALCTS Board activities.
Linda Davis went to the Peabody Library to train Steve Dunning (the new LA asst.) on the procedures involved with various types of maintenance requests.
TechForce met twice in May.
Ann Ercelawn attended a retreat of the Staff Development Council to plan for next year.
Ann Ercelawn attended a meeting of the SFX group.
Becky Atack and Sue Davis attended the University Staff Advisory Council meeting.
Several TS staff attended the second round of fire extinguisher training.
Several TS staff attended the brown bag on Time Management with Microsoft Outlook.
Becky Atack and Sue Davis attended Lisa Weiss’s brown bag on Baudelaire & art.
Ann Ercelawn attended a webcast on the importance of project management.
Several staff were able to attend the staff appreciation party that the Emeritus Faculty hosted in the GLB staff lounge.
Many team members attended the annual library staff picnic. Ann E. served on the event committee and Sue Davis stepped in as a dessert judge when one of original group was unable to judge.
Sue provided preservation advice to two former Heard Library employees who now work elsewhere-- Patti Skipper and Katy Ginanni.
Sue met with Jared Ingersoll to discuss preservation issues related to Central.
Sue attended the Collection Committee meeting and the TSC&TC meeting.
Sue volunteered for one of the VU Visions projects and began work with the Meet the Class of 1912 project.