Cathy,
Thanks for your response. It makes me feel better knowing others are in
the same situation (yours is even worse!)
Kathy
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:44 PM Catherine Perkins <
catherine.perkins_at_wagner.edu> wrote:
> Hi Kathy,
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> 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
>
> - - - -
> *Cathy Perkins* |* Technical Services Librarian *
> 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:
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>> 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 .
>>
>> Kathy
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>> *Kathy Juliano
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