Director Level Position over MSL, CAT/ILL, TP - Tim
Tim handed out a draft of the new job description for what is currently called the Director of Collection Management. He mentioned that he expects to fill this position within the next 6 months. Tim asked the managers to bring any concerns to the next MSD meeting.
Administrative Update - Tim
Tim talked about OrangeBoy’s strategic planning efforts.
Since the beginning of the fiscal year MSL has ordered 14715 titles for a weekly average of over 525 titles. A total of 93137 items were ordered for an average of 3326 per week.
MSL received over 5869 recommendations from customers to purchase titles, for an average of 210 recommendations per week.
A total of 194 boxes of withdrawals and gifts have been received. Almost 35 boxes of transfers and gifts were sent to CAT.
Submitted by prodriguez on Mon, 12/14/2015 - 16:27
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.
Submitted by prodriguez on Tue, 12/01/2015 - 11:31
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.
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.
Submitted by prodriguez on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 16:38
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.
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.
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.
Submitted by prodriguez on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 15:32
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.
