Collection Services & Development Archive

Cataloging Update - Pauline Rodriguez-Atkins

Meetings and training attended:

Ursula – United Way meeting, September 17

Aaron, Staff Association, September 23

Jill, OLA SSRT, September 25

Steven has resigned from his MSD Tech position; his last day was October 13. He continued to work in ILL one day each week until he left.

Kristin Hill was selected as Cataloging’s newest MSD Tech, and began work on September 22. She has already begun learning to order barcodes.

Pauline plans to interview and select a new MSD Tech for CAT at the same time as the MSD Tech in ILL. Jana will assist with interviews; Veronica will help with testing.

Veronica continued to help out in MSL while their new MSD Tech was being selected.

Most staff attended code of conduct orientation sessions. Those that were unable to attend have reviewed the session materials.

Aaron attended the Online AudioVisual Catalogers conference September 26-28. He returned with a new appreciation for people who focus solely on AV!

Ursula organized a potluck salad luncheon on October 2 as CH’s United Way kickoff. Maintenance staff also attended. The luncheon raised $69 for the cause.

CAT and ILL staff participated in a joint V2R session on October 6. The second session will be held on October 21.

Pauline taught a session of the Collection Management workshop on October 9. Steven attended the first and second sessions of the workshop, but was unable to attend the third.

Almost all staff, including Kristin and Steven, attended Focus on October 13. Pauline was a session coordinator. Jana participated as a leader of the Metro Hero session, which was very popular and well received.

Cataloging Update - Pauline
Paula Hannapel is happy to announce the birth of her granddaughter, Maddison Nicole Farris, on August 20. Mother and daughter are fine, but the grandmother is feeling lightheaded.

Meetings and training attended:

Ursula – Census workshop, July 18

Ursula – Exemplary Ethics workshop, July 20 Aaron – Tech Group, July 22

Aaron – Staff Association, July 24

Paula, Veronica – True Communication, August 7

Pauline, Jana – X Change, August 18

Aaron – Staff Recognition Committee, August 20

Jill – OLA SSRT, August 21

Cataloging held a staff meeting on July 24. They discussed various issues including plans for the new building and the RE closing and temporary location.

Pauline and the Cataloging Technicians met on July 24 to talk about tracking boxes received from MSL and coverage during vacations.

Jana, Ursula, and Pauline taped Read About It segments on July 25.

Pauline and the Catalogers met on July 29. Among other issues, they established standards for adding feature film DVDs to existing records.

Sam Weehunt from DC job shadowed in CAT on August 6.

Jeanie, MSL, assisted in CAT on July 31 and August 7. On August 7, she and Steven handled the Cataloging Tech duties for the afternoon, so that Paula and Veronica could attend the True Communication workshop.

Leadership Group Jana + Kelley

The managers welcomed Jana Hausburg and Kelley Riha to the meeting. Jana and Kelley reported on the Leadership Group’s activities, like R&D and the blog they are contributing to.

Materials Selection Update - Janet

Library Visits

During April, Selectors made an annual visit to MC and a 6-month visit to VI.

During May, Selectors are conducting an annual visit to SO. They were supposed to make a 6-month visit to RE, but because of staff changes, RFID tagging at that location and the future move, the collection review was postponed.

During June, Selectors will make an annual visit to BE and a 6-month visit to WA.

RFID

Ruby assisted with DC’s RFID tagging.

Janet and Kim assisted with RE’s RFID tagging.

Janet hopes to go out to HR and LU in the next couple of days to help with their tagging.

Materials Selection update – Janet

Library Visits

During February, the selectors made an annual visit to DN and a 6-month visit to CT.

During March, selectors made an annual visit to ED and a 6-month visit to DC.

During April, selectors are scheduled to do an annual visit to MC and 6-month visit to VI.

Spotlight On

Selectors are updating the Spotlight on Asian Americans. It will go to Teresa by the first of April and up on the webpage in May.

Janet and Karen are evaluating how useful the Spotlight bibliographies are to customers and staff to decide if we need to continue to update them.