Hi Kathy,
We have about 1,800 FTE and have only 4 librarians (including the director)
and 3 staff. We have lost half of our professional and clerical staff due
to attrition and personnel budget cuts in the last 10 years.
The cataloging librarian (me) is also the acquisitions, systems, and web
services librarian. No staff assist with the acquisitions or systems work.
One staff member that provides circulation desk coverage for the night
shift assists with processing new books for shelving (labels, stamping,
etc.). In our library the librarians spend much of our time doing work that
could be done by staff if we had enough people. Our few clerical staff
spend their time covering the circulation desk with the assistance of
student workers (mostly grad students) as we have long operating hours most
days (open at 7am, close at midnight).
Good luck - I look forward to hearing from others to see how they manage
and how work is distributed at other institutions.
Cathy
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Contact me for: Acquisitions, Cataloging, Databases & Periodicals
Horrmann Library <https://www.wagner.edu/library>
wagner.edu | 718-390-3377
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 8:20 AM Kathleen Juliano <kjuliano_at_drew.edu> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
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> We are a small (FTE 2000) liberal arts university with a Library staff
> (now) of about 14 (8 librarians, director, 5 staff,)plus 1 retiring
> acquisitons associate, 3 additional staff just let go, an admin shared with
> IT, and 4 Instructional Technology positions + 2 vacant IT positions under
> library director)
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> My question is- who performs your acquisitions functions? Administration
> has not approved replacing the retiring acquisitions person. She
> currently does firm orders, standing orders,streaming and physical media
> and gifts . Are there any libraries out there that do not have a staff
> acquisitions person? Do any have students performing these functions? We
> were hoping to at least get a part time position, but that will not happen
> either. It does not seem feasible to have either a full time librarian
> already responsible for electronic resources and collections perform these
> functions, or a student worker, who will be expending library funds. Our
> catalog associate, who could conceivably take it on, is already
> overburdened due to the fact that we have not had a cataloger for almost 2
> years.
> Thanks for the collective wisdom .
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> Kathy
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