The Collected Works Project that I have been working on is actually taking a good deal longer to accomplish than I had initially anticipated. Not only is it tedious, but I am really starting to encounter issues with the OPAC which I had previously been able to work around. For example, if I search for an item in the OPAC, and it is not given a series title, it will not show up in search results. While this might make sense to the casual user, I find it endlessly frustrating, in that I have to double and triple check by doing multiple searches for items before I mark them as not held by the library.
And even then I am sure I am missing some.
Doing this is Workflows is substantially easier, if only because I can easily view Call Number holdings, but Workflows also has its idiosyncrasies, combined with its lag which makes the process take, arguably, just as long. You would think in a digital age we would have perfected this to some kind of level. Ah well, I'm certainly learning a lot about how cataloging practices can possibly affect collection development. If I can't /FIND/ the item, I may accidentally purchase a second one -- which does not bode well for the library budget.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Collection Developers Meeting
Today I had the privilege of attending an IU Libraries Collection Developer's meeting. Because of the time of the year, the primary concern was budgets, as each library needs to be sure to /spend/ their budget, but not /overspend/. Discussion on how to do this occurred, and it was interesting to hear the different strategies of the different departments, especially in regards to materials. Departments were told if they wanted to make any "big ticket item" purchases that now was the time.
The next big topic was DDA (or Demand Driven Acquisitions). From the pilot project of this, for which was a $40,000 budget, $5,000 was spent. This is going to be discussed at the next CIC (consortium) meeting.
There was a report on the Provost Forum, from which they have had a few meetings with individual libraries and their respective departments. The topic of the relationships there will be continued with faculty involvement. The future of academic libraries was also discussed, and hopefully we can continue to understand and work together with the departments to remain relevant and pertinent.
They also discussed using the ALF (Auxillery Library Facility) as a shared print repository for the CIC, and how they are hammering out procedures and policies. It will just be journals at this time. The collections workgroup recommended first set of deposits be such, and that they change the WorldCat locations to CIC Shared Repository. It will consist of 250,000 volumes when complete. IU will house half of this.
The next big topic was DDA (or Demand Driven Acquisitions). From the pilot project of this, for which was a $40,000 budget, $5,000 was spent. This is going to be discussed at the next CIC (consortium) meeting.
There was a report on the Provost Forum, from which they have had a few meetings with individual libraries and their respective departments. The topic of the relationships there will be continued with faculty involvement. The future of academic libraries was also discussed, and hopefully we can continue to understand and work together with the departments to remain relevant and pertinent.
They also discussed using the ALF (Auxillery Library Facility) as a shared print repository for the CIC, and how they are hammering out procedures and policies. It will just be journals at this time. The collections workgroup recommended first set of deposits be such, and that they change the WorldCat locations to CIC Shared Repository. It will consist of 250,000 volumes when complete. IU will house half of this.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Theodore Front
Along with Harrassowitz, Theodore Front Musical Literature is probably the biggest vendor for music materials that the library uses to procure both text and sound recordings. They were the first company to introduce approval plans for sound recordings in the 1970s for the Library of Congress (according to their brochure) and now, over 40 years later, our music library has a similar approval plan with them.
Theodore Front recently bought Arkiv Music, which I'll talk about at a later date, but they are our primary vendor for sound recordings and video. Because we have an approval plan with them, the library receives a 10% discount off the manufacturer's suggested list price.
Their website, from which I am often ordering now, is fairly easy to use, save that sometimes the same number is assigned to multiple sound recordings -- but thankfully I am well aware from the get-go which disc it is that I am actually out to purchase.
Theodore Front recently bought Arkiv Music, which I'll talk about at a later date, but they are our primary vendor for sound recordings and video. Because we have an approval plan with them, the library receives a 10% discount off the manufacturer's suggested list price.
Their website, from which I am often ordering now, is fairly easy to use, save that sometimes the same number is assigned to multiple sound recordings -- but thankfully I am well aware from the get-go which disc it is that I am actually out to purchase.
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