Subject: ALCTS E-Forum: The Incredible Shrinking Cataloging Department:
How to Do More with Less
From: ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
Date: 1/4/2012 8:37 AM
The Incredible Shrinking Cataloging Department: How to Do More with Less
January 11-12, 2012
Hosted by Xiaoli Li and Wade Wyckoff
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 6am – 4pm
Mountain: 7am – 5pm
Central: 8am – 6 pm
Eastern: 9am – 7pm
Description
With the current economic downturn, many cataloging departments have
experienced or are facing staff reductions. With fewer catalogers around
to process materials, those departments have to come up with ways to
deal with the situation. Some have struggled while others have been more
successful. Some have even managed to do more with less.
This e-Forum will be an open discussion about options, choices,
strategies used in various cataloging departments. Please be prepared to
share your own ideas and solutions. We are hoping we all will have a
great and productive year ahead with the collective wisdom offered
through this forum. The topics to be covered include:
Outsourcing options
Cooperative cataloging exchanges between libraries
Managing foreign language materials
Improving efficiencies in cataloging workflow
Stopping tasks that are less value-added
Xiaoli Li is the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services Department at
the University of California, Davis General Library. Her department has
had an approximately 20% reduction in staffing since 2008 when the
department was formed as a result of the reorganization of technical
services at Davis.
Wade Wyckoff joined McMaster University Library in 2006, where he is
currently Associate University Librarian, Collections. Previously, he
held appointments as Cataloguing Policy Librarian and Collection
Services Librarian with the University Library. Before coming to Mac,
Wade was an Archivist with the U.S. Navy’s History and Heritage Command.
He holds a B.A. and M.A. in History and an M.L.S., all from Indiana
University.
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