Collection Services & Development Archive

Materials Services Division Minutes - December 03, 2015

Statistical Highlights

  • Since the beginning of FY16, Materials Selection input a total of 78175 items, for a weekly average of 3553 items. As of 11/25/15 the total number of titles input for FY16 was 12295.  This is a weekly average of 558.9 titles.
  • Since the beginning of FY16 the total number of Patron Recommendations received in MSL was 4779, averaging a total of 217.23 per week.
  • 1,502 titles new to the collection were cataloged in November, including Launchpads; approximately 180 records for browsing collection titles were added.

Materials Services Division Minutes - November 19, 2015

Statistical Highlights

  • 1,793 titles new to the collection were cataloged in October, including e-media titles; approximately 180 records for mass market paperbacks were added.
  • Approximately 19,500 new items were added to the collections in October, including about  2,000 browsing collection items.

Materials Services Division Minutes - October 29, 2015

Statistical Updates

  • Since the beginning of FY16, Materials Selection input a total of 65906 items, for a weekly average of 3469 items. As of 10/26/15 the total number of titles input for FY16 was 10411.  This is a weekly average of 547.9 titles.
  • The total number of Customer Suggestions received in MSL was 3651, averaging a total of 228 per week.
  • Since the beginning of the FY, TP received a total of 3363 boxes.  In October, they received 1323 boxes.  They averaged 60 boxes a day during October. 

Materials Services Division Minutes - September 17, 2015

Statistical Highlights

  • Since the beginning of FY16, Materials Selection has input a total of 6,168 titles for an average weekly total of 616 titles.
  • A total of 41,055 items were entered for a weekly average of 4,106 items.
  • During July and August:
    • 3.500 titles new to the collection were cataloged in July and August, including 140 e-media titles.  Approximately 300 records for mass market paperbacks were added during that time.
    • About 37,000 new items were added to the collections in July and August, including browsing collections.

Materials Services Division Minutes - August 10, 2015

Cost of Shelf Ready Materials - All

  • Tim wants to get a better sense of what our actual costs are to assess, select, acquire, receive, catalog, process, and otherwise make our variety of materials shelf ready.  
  • He would like to know the average cost to make every content type ready to use by a customer.  In addition to cost, it would be good to be aware of the time involved to make each content type ready-to-use from receipt through shelf availability.

Materials Services Division Minutes - May 21, 2015

Administrative Update    Karen

Budget

Karen reported that the A&P Committee met for their annual review of Human Resources – Salaries and Benefits. Minutes are posted on the Intranet.

There will be changes to the Professional and Travel accounts for the next fiscal year. Requests will be approved and funded on a system level, rather than on a department level.

A new budget cost center (DL) has been created for the Digital Library, managed by Kellie Delaney. Funds in account 401 for e-media have been assigned to this cost center.

Materials Services Division Minutes - March 19, 2015

Statistical Highlights

  • Since the beginning of September, with the implementation of CARLX, 15017 titles and 100,133 items have been added.  This averages to 500 titles and 3337 items per week.  Since the beginning of March, 2293 titles were added and 16675 items added.
  • Since the beginning of the fiscal year, MSL has received 8080 recommendations to add titles.  This averages out to 218 recommendations each week.
  • During January and February:

    Materials Services Division - January 2015

    Statistical Updates

    • During December, all newly cataloged titles were routed from Cataloging to Technical Processing within one working day of receipt in Cataloging.  Mass market paperbacks were routed from Cataloging to Technical Processing within an average of 1.5 working days of receipt in Cataloging.  Records for e-media materials were uploaded to the catalog within 5 working days of receipt via e-mail.  
    • Based on the best data available, around 1,800 titles new to the collection were cataloged in December, including about 400 e-media titles.  Approximately 600 records for mass market paperbacks were added during that time.
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