Blurring the boundaries between professional and para-professional catalogers at California State University,Northridge

What used to be a clear-cut division between the duties of professional and para-professional catalogers has become blurred in many libraries. The authors will illustrate this point by discussing the evolution of responsibilities held by para-professional and professional catalogers over the course of a 10-year period in the Cataloging Department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Comparisons will be made among organization charts and workflow patterns during this 10-year period. CSUN′s evolution has been dramatic as a result of the January 1994 Northridge Earthquake, and will be described in terms of pre-earthquake and post-earthquake. Of the several contributing factors responsible for blurring the boundaries, technology played the major role. Para-professional catalogers have more responsibilities with streamlined workflow. The results of these changes at CSUN have been mostly positive, and have provided lessons in organizational change from which other libraries may benefit.     

Serials Management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Serials management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library today reflects many of the trends evident in academic librarianship over the last decade, as well as internal trends toward decentralization and a regrouping of professional and nonprofessional tasks. New challenges for serials control face the Library's staff and its administration in an era of financial retrenchment.     

美国加州州立大学图书馆见闻

文章介绍了在CSUN图书馆做交换馆员期间的一些感受,分析了国内大学图书馆在基础管理和规范性建设上与美国加州州立大学图书馆存在的差距.希望能对国内高校图书馆工作起一定的借鉴和指导作用.     

The Evolution of Automated Serials Control

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Building a Serials Database on NOTIS at the University of Louisville

The implementation of the NOTIS system at the University of Louisville Libraries has introduced various changes to Serials cataloging in Ekstrom Library. An initial goal was to provide a clean database, containing all currently received serial titles. The decision by Ekstrom Library to maintain a permanent order record on the current title necessitates frequent record manipulation as serial titles change. Bibliographic records are overlaid, which requires correcting copy holdings records and moving item records. Procedures within the Serials Section continue to change as staff work to provide a complete database of serial holdings.     

试论高校图书馆期刊工作的变革

本文分析了高校图书馆期刊工作变革的外在基础和内在因素，论述了高校图书馆期刊工作迎接变革的挑战应当采取的对策和措施。     

Library Express Delivery Service: The Evolution of a Campus Delivery Service at Florida State University

Libraries are faced with the challenge of developing new services that respond to the growing needs of their patron base. A library material delivery service is one new service model that is becoming increasingly popular among academic libraries around the country. While this service has shown positive results on college campuses, the service model is still evolving. The purpose of this article is to provide library professionals with a clear and concise overview of policies and logistics currently implemented by the Library Express Delivery Service at Florida State University.     

加州大学图书馆多平台云迁移策略研究

高校图书馆应用云计算存在4个核心问题,阻碍了图书馆云迁移的理论研究和实践进展。加州大学图书馆的数字图书馆运维体系曾遇到经费短缺、技术压力和安全隐患三方面问题,向校园私有云和专业开放云迁移的组合策略成为解决问题的首要对策。通过渐进式的分批次过程,图书馆集成系统、馆际互借系统、内容管理系统和校外访问代理系统先后迁移到软件商托管云、OCLC公共云和校园私有云平台,最终实现图书馆基于IaaS层的全面云端化。其经验对我国图书馆的云实践具有重要借鉴意义。     

Serials receipts decentralization for two branch campus libraries at the University of Washington

During 1996, staff at the University of Washington Libraries, a large research library, undertook a project to decentralize serials receipts for two branch campus libraries. This article examines the rationale for decentralization, the planning involved, and how the project was implemented, including follow-up. It details the project’s outcomes and discusses various problems encountered and the impact of the changes on branch campus and central library staff. The authors include a list of steps for executing a successful decentralization project. The authors conclude with general observations about changing to the practice of receiving serials directly at branch libraries.     

The California State University E-book Pilot Project: implications for cooperative collection development

The California State University conducted a year-long study of the use of a collection of NetLibrary e-books in its libraries. The purpose of the study was to introduce e-books, and develop a model for cooperative collection development of a shared electronic monograph collection. Title usage and subject usage statistics were examined, as well as a user survey. Challenges in analyzing e-book usage statistics are discussed, and positive user feedback is reported. Strategies are presented for cooperatively developing a shared collection of electronic monograph literature.     

An interview with Marcia Tuttle,head, Serials Department,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This interview was conducted on July 7 and 8, 1994. Marcia Tuttle talks about the beginning of the Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NASIG, and Aqueduct; her career; and serials librarianship.     

Shared patron driven acquisition of E-books in the California State University Library Consortium

The California State University (CSU) system has a history of consortial purchasing of electronic resources. Its most recent endeavor is consortial Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) of e-books. Two PDA e-book pilots, funded by the CSU Chancellor's Office, were conducted in 2011 and 2012. The aim of the pilots was to reduce duplication of e-books on CSU campuses, and determine if consortial PDA is appropriate for the CSU. This article provides an overview of CSU's cooperative collection development efforts, results from both pilots, and addresses how a consortial PDA program affects collection development locally on one CSU campus.     

The new Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo

The new Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo is a harmonious and functional blend of the old and the new. The old is a renovated Georgian style building with formal rooms containing fireplaces, carved woodwork and English oak paneling. The new is a contemporary four-story addition. Through the arrangement of space and the interior design, the new library offers users easy access to services and resources; accommodates the heavy daily flow of users and library materials; provides an environment of comfort, quiet, and safety; and promotes efficient communication among all segments of the library staff. This was accomplished through sound architectural design which included close consultation with the library director and staff during the planning process. The new library is equipped to face the challenge of meeting the needs of biomedical education, research, and clinical programs of the institution and its constituents in the years to come.     

Promoting Faculty Scholarship Through The University Author Recognition Bibliography at Boise State University

One of the most important contributions by any university is its faculty members’ scholarship. Providing an interface to view the full scope of an institution's academic accomplishments is vital for promoting both the scholarship and the university at large. Because of their unique information skills and services, librarians can facilitate the discovery of this scholarship on behalf of their institutions. This article explores how Albertsons Library at Boise State University utilizes an institutional repository to produce a faculty publication bibliography. Processes for collecting academic scholarship and organizing the citations within a repository structure are also discussed. Library staff found that this approach not only reduced redundancy and increased the usability of researcher publication data, it also increased the profile and value of the institutional repository.     

Planning for the Budget-ocalypse: The Evolution of a Serials/ER Cancellation Methodology

The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries are funded almost entirely by undergraduate student use fees. As the undergraduate enrollment has plateaued in recent years, the libraries have not been able to keep up with rising costs, resulting in a series of cuts to the materials budget totaling around $3.25 million. While some of these cuts took the form of reductions in firm orders and dissolution of approval plans, for the past three years the bulk has come from cancellations of serials and electronic resources. With each year’s cuts, the UNT Collection Development department has been forced to modify and refine their deselection process. This article will show the development of UNT’s strategy for determining cancellations using a variety of methods (overlap analysis, usage statistics, faculty input) and tools (EBSCO Usage Consolidation, Serials Solutions 360).     

Serials at the British Library Lending Division

The British Library Lending Division has one of the largest collections of serials in the world. This paper outlines the history of serials at Boston Spa and describes various aspects of policy and procedures relating to serials, including selection, acquisition, record creation, automation, usage and binding. It concludes by considering the future role of the Lending Division in the light of continuing developments in electronic publishing and telecommunications.