Technical Services

Technical Services

1. Goals/accomplishments current year
   9. Technical Services
      1. Acquisitions
         1. Re-organization of Acquisitions Department to include "segregation of duties" between functions.
         2. Creation and implementation of new Materials Budget fund code structure for ALEPH.
         3. Instituted process for regular month-end reconciliations between ALEPH and PeopleSoft.
         4. Streamlined Acquisitions Ordering process by implementing the downloading of provisional bibliographic records from vendor sites into ALEPH.
         5. Established a both a book rental plan and a media rental plan to support the Shott collection.
      2. Serials
         1. Worked with Periodicals staff to begin shifting all direct periodicals over to major jobber.
         2. Worked with Continuations staff to begin shifting direct Continuations and Standing Orders over to major jobber.
         3. Towards the end of the fiscal year, an interim Serials Librarian was appointed to the department. A serials committee was also formed to evaluate all policies, processes, and procedures.
      3. Cataloging
         1. Implementation of OCLC PromptCAT services with one vendor (Blackwells.)
         2. Implementation of physical pre-processing with two vendors (Blackwells and Midwest.)
         3. Towards the end of the fiscal year, an interim Cataloging Librarian was appointed to the department. Through the librarian's efforts, a tremendous amount of cataloging backlog has been processed and released for public use.
         4. A cataloging committee was formed to evaluate all policies, process, and procedures. The final committee report made many recommendations for streamlining the cataloging department.
      4. Electronic Resources
         1. Established an Electronic Resources Team which works together in handling the renewal of electronic resources.
         2. Purchased both a Knowledge Base and Link Resolver product. These products are in the implementation process.