Occasional Project Progress Report 5---May 29, 2013
Hi everyone:
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Chew Chiat Naun (called Naun informally) is the new Director of Cataloging & Metadata Services at Cornell. Naun holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and M.A.'s ’s in both Philosophy and Librarianship from Monash University. He has a combined 15 years of experience in bibliographic control and information technology, including over 5 years with the University of Minnesota as their Principal Cataloger / Cataloging Strategist. He is the author or co-author of several articles on bibliographic control and librarianship in general in both Australian and North American journals, and has served on or led a number of ALA ALCTS and PCC committees and interest groups. As part of 2CUL, Sarah Elman served on the search committee. Thank you Sarah! Naun will serve as the Cornell lead on the Original Cataloging Functional Team which is chaired by Susan Summer from Columbia.
Yi Jin joined Cornell's Cornell’s LTS on May 6th as Technical Services Assistant IV and will have duties in copy cataloging, batch processing and ordering with a focus on Chinese language. Yi is first being trained in copy cataloging and with a Masters Degree in computing she will be able to contribute to further Technical Services automation in the future.
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Matt and I are satisfied that we are on track to start writing our brief report to satisfy Phase I in the coming weeks. What remains outstanding is "establishing “establishing baseline productivity numbers for ordering processes and staffing at each institution to allow for future assessment of changes and development associated with 2CUL TSI." ” We are currently pulling the numbers together and will be posting them to the confluence wiki soon and begin drafting our report shortly thereafter.
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The Group has compiled a list of Database Maintenance tasks performed by staff at both Cornell and Columbia. We have been reviewing and comparing the work needed to be done for each task and the similarities and differences between Cornell and Columbia. As we work through this process, we are gaining a better understanding of policies, practices and workflows at both Cornell and Columbia.
Batch Processing Working Group: Mark Wilson (Columbia -- chair), Gary Branch (Cornell)
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Joyce McDonough and Bill Kara have held weekly calls to discuss different aspects of e-resources work at each institution noting similarities and differences in our operations. A charge is being written for a sub-group to investigate knowledge bases available to and used by Columbia and/ Cornell in their management of e-resources.
2CUL Meeting at Columbia May 14-15
Boaz, Jim and Adam came to Columbia for a TSI Steering Committee meeting. A highlight was touring the new NYPL Library Services Center which combines technical services for New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library. Book Ops is located in a rather desolate section of Long Island City.
We were especially impressed by the futuristic book sorting machine which reads barcodes and queries data from their OPAC to quickly sort hundreds of books a day for transport by location and call number to the branch libraries.
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As always questions may be sent to any of us!
Kate Harcourt, Jim Le BlancLeBlanc, Adam Chandler, Robert Rendall, Colleen Major, Boaz Nadav-Manes