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Materials Services Division Minutes - March 03, 2016

Submitted by hjohnson on Fri, 03/18/2016 - 10:13

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.

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Cataloging, Materials Selection, Technical Processing, Interlibrary Loan, OrangeBoy, ILLiad, RDA, Weeding, CollectionHQ

Materials Services Division Updates for September 2014

Submitted by prodriguez on Thu, 09/25/2014 - 13:25

The regular meeting being cancelled, the Materials Services Managers provided updates of departmental activities in lieu of minutes.

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Materials Selection, Technical Processing, Cataloging, Interlibrary Loan, Carl.X, Temporary Loan, ILS, RDA, Paperbacks

Materials Services Division Updates for May 2013

Submitted by hjohnson on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 15:03

During the first 3 weeks of May a total of 1046 customer suggestions were received. MSL averages 316 suggestions each week for the fiscal year.

During the first 3 weeks of May a total of 2370 titles and 17719 items were selected and ordered, an average of 766 titles and 4858 items per week for the fiscal year.

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in April was 1 working day; average for the FY13 is 1.18 working days. This includes only time that materials were in Cataloging; it does not include time in Technical Processing.

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Statistics, Interlibrary Loan, Cataloging, RDA, Evacuation Plan, Budget

CONNECT Minutes for March 2013

Submitted by bjohnson on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 14:42

Jana Hausburg, MLO, CH expressed a warm welcome to the CONNECT forum.

CONNECT began with introductions and a summary of the purpose and goal of this forum.

CONNECT is meant:
To serve as a platform for librarians to voice questions and concerns
To facilitate a learning and sharing environment for professional development, trends in libraries, customer service, legislative issues, and other topics
To foster a sense of camaraderie between and among the librarians at MLS

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CONNECT, Subject Headings, RDA

Materials Services Division Updates for February 2013

Submitted by hjohnson on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 14:41

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in January was 1 working day; average for the FY13 is 1.25 working days.

In December, the average turnaround time for borrowing materials in ILL was 8.46 calendar days.

ILL has recently been made aware of an issue with a particular borrowed material. The problem involves a social work textbook titled The strengths model by Charles Rapp. The title has been published in different editions with varying subtitles since 1997, most recently in 2011. ILL has received numerous requests for various editions of this title in the last few months. The most popular edition seems to be the 2006, with the subtitle Case management for people with psychiatric disabilities. At least one copy of this edition is now 60 days overdue; the replacement cost ranges from $250 for a used copy to $750 and up for a new copy. Given this information, ILL will no longer attempt to borrow any edition of this title for MLS customers.

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Cataloging, Technical Processing, Interlibrary Loan, Materials Selection, RDA, Almonte, Budget
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