Collection HQ

John Huber Project

• Cataloging and Tech Processing have been filling out the forms for a week
  • There was some confusion over some of the terms
  • We will keep going until pink slips are gone, except items that are stuck until street date
  • Pauline is working on data entry – ILL also helped out with this piece
  • Staff are also tracking other work they do that takes them away from tracked tasks
• First committee meeting will be June 8th at 10:00 at the Service Center

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. 

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.