2CUL TSI Monograph Receiving Working Group
Summarize staffing and expertise at Columbia and Cornell, including a comparison of current job assignments.
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Columbia and Cornell have similar reporting and decision-making structures. At Columbia, MAS is a department with two individual units (BIH and OAR), an OAR Unit Librarian, and a department head, whereas Cornell's AATS is divided into individual Units with supervisors or coordinators.
Summarize significant similarities and differences between policies, practices, and workflows in the Receiving departments at Columbia and Cornell.
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Investigation: Members of the Working Group shared and posted respective documentation on dependencies on Basecamp and the 2CUL wiki and discussed details during phone discussions.
Please see attached document entitled "Dependencies and Limitations."
Columbia and Cornell's receiving departments experience the same types of dependencies and limitations in day-to-day operations. Both departments are dependent on the timely review and selection of approval material by selectors in order to facilitate payment of invoices and cataloging of material. Establishing EDI connections with vendors occurs in IT departments outside of the receiving units (LITO for Columbia and Batch Processing for Cornell). The loading of bibliographic records for approval material at Columbia also occurs in LITO and the Book in Hand unit must wait until the records load before it can prepare material for review. Cornell is reliant on their accounting department to approve pending invoices in Voyager. The processing of invoices for approval material is limited by internal accounting constraints at Columbia.
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