CDL: ALCTS E-Forum: The Incredible Shrinking Cataloging Department: How to Do More with Less

ALCTS E-Forum: The Incredible Shrinking Cataloging Department: How to Do 
More with Less
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*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.

Participation is free and open to anyone.

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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