LTS All Staff Meeting
Spring 2008
Waiting for…
Today’s agenda
• Unit reports
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Acquisitions
Cataloging
Database Management
Electronic Resources & Serials Management
Metadata
• LeBlanc on WCL
• Q&A
• Anne Kenney Talks Shop
• Lunch!
Acquisitions Services
What’s new (since last time) ?
Two staff members: Yael Zucker and
Masayo Uchiyama
Acquisitions accomplishments
• Processed a record number of firm orders
compared to the same point of FY 2006/07
- 25,658 vs.18,264 (40 %, or 7,400)
- Exceed the total of 06/07 by end March
- Help from other LTS units (Peter & Chip)
- ITSO > WCS orders up
- Order requests changed in the web era
Acquisitions accomplishments
• Kept up with timely receiving
– Help from other LTS units (Laurie & Dorothy)
– Added flexibility by cross training staff
– Expect heavy receiving to continue through
June
Acquisitions challenges
• Uneven work load
– Beginning vs. end of FY
– Lag time between orders and receiving
– More cross training between Ordering and Receiving units
• Work with vendors to increase automation
– Chinese, Spanish, Latin American vendors
• Folding e-books into mainstream acquisitions
plans
Cataloging Services Update
• New initiatives
– OCLC serials reclamation
– Microform reclamation
– Voyager 6.5.3 testing
• Ongoing projects
– Rare and gifts cataloging
– E-resources
– Completion of Harris recon
Electronic Resources & Serials
Management Unit (ERSM)
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Office Changes / Staff Changes
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Print Serials Check-in
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Tracking System for new e-resources
acquisitions, licensing & cataloging
http://www.library.cornell.edu/ittsapps/nerf/main_pag
e.php
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E-books, e-series, ERM
OCLC WorldCat Local:
What Is It? Why Now?
Jim LeBlanc
LTS Staff Meeting
March 24, 2008
WorldCat Local: What Is It?
1. A global catalog of 98M BIB records
2. Prioritizes local holdings
3. Includes holdings from thousands of
other libraries
WorldCat Local: What Is It?
4. Displays local volume holdings and
circulation information in real time
5. Provides seamless interface for local
Borrow Direct and ILL clients
WorldCat Local: Why Now?
1. Access more important than ownership
2. Need to make holdings more readily
visible beyond the local catalog
3. Plans for Web 2.0 initiatives
WorldCat Local: Why Now?
4. Plans to broaden access to full-text
article content
5. Design based on usability studies with
real library patrons
Want to see it?
• Do a Google search on “university of
washington libraries,” OR
• Check out
http://www.lib.washington.edu/
• WorldCat Local version of CUL catalog
coming later this spring
Conclusion:
Find globally, get locally!
(Karen Calhoun; ALA Midwinter 2008)