Re: Centralizing Technical Services (John D. Crissinger) John D. Crissinger 22 Mar 2002 22:49 UTC
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:45:14 -0500 From: "John D. Crissinger" <crissinger.5@OSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Centralizing Technical Services (Alice Wong) Alice, just a comment or two as a regional library depending on in part on the main campus: - periodicals-we check in our own; if main did it we would have to do it again anyway to be sure we actually receive the issues at our campus; - cataloging-we do the copy cataloging at our campus, attach our holdings to main's record. - original cataloging is done by main. We send a photocopy of the needed item to main and occassionally have to send the piece; we are totally at the mercy of main in terms of priority, sometimes that is no problem; we have a good cataloger now who keeps our stuff flowing, but we have had really poor service in the past when ours was low priority because main's had to be done first (not acceptable to us); we maintain our own serial holdings on the holdings screen but main has to enter the original record; we also use III and the conversion to the millenium is not without its problems. Having some difficulty with others ticking our checkin record so when we go to add our issue it looks like a dup, is a problem. We maintain our own serial budget so there is no need for main to be involved with ordering and claiming. When mailing things back and forth for processing, time is lost (depends upon your courrier) and what happens at the other end, not often fortunately but every now and then something gets lost and it takes forever before it is found (had a book come to us during the winter that had been sent for cataloging a loooooooooong time ago (we are talking years) so those oops do happen, be ready for them and the grief they bring. At 09:40 AM 3/22/2002 -0500, Alice Wong wrote: >Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:21:36 +0800 >From: Alice Wong <<amywonga@HKUCC.HKU.HK> >Subject: Centralizing Technical Services > >Dear Colleague, > > I am the Acting Serials Librarian of an academic library. My >Library is proposed to centralize the technical services in near future. >At present, we have 3 branch libraries at remote sites that process its >serial ordering, checkin, claiming etc. They set up its own accounts for >all the related issues. > > Serials Department at the Main Library has no authority and >control on their order and checkin records. The library system we are >using is INNOPAC. I would like to gauge your comments and share your >experiences on this. > >(1) Has any one of your library gone through such centralizing exercises >before? >(2) What are the implications of such centralization? >(3) Did you have a smooth migration? How? >(4) What complicated the situation is that we are also planning for the >migration to Millenium module of INNOPAC, any advice? > >Any hints and comments will be highly appreciated. If you wish to send me >your comments off the list , please email to amywonga@hkucc.hku.hk I will >compile a digest to those interested. > >Thanks in advance. > >Regards, >Alice > >Alice Wong <<amywonga@HKUCC.HKU.HK> ******************************** JOHN D. CRISSINGER NEWARK CAMPUS LIBRARY OSU-N/COTC 1179 UNIVERSITY DR. NEWARK, OH 43055 ******************************** Tele: 740-366-9306 Fax: 740-366-9264 Email: crissinger.5@osu.edu "As thousands of immigrants poured out of the steerage of the ships that brought them here to find squalid shelter in our slums, the libraries threw open their majestic doors and welcomed the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The lady holding her lamp in the harbor may have been the symbol, but the librarian raising her date-due stamp was the true provider of liberty." ........From The Invisible Child by Katherine Paterson