Re: Serials Job Duties L. Christine Ericson 07 Nov 2007 18:33 UTC
Hi Melissa, We're going through the same process here at UAA. Right now we have an interim serials manager (me!) and a student who checks in serials. Needless to say, dealing with electronic resources has been challenging as it's not really centralized. I've been looking at a lot of job announcements trying to figure out how to best restructure our department and have seen a lot of ads for Electronic Resources/Serials Librarians. We're looking at possibly going with an Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian position and a serials technician level position, along with a student who will continue to do check-in. We have a cataloger who does original cataloging for both monographs and serials and currently our copy catalogers add both monographs and serials. I would also love to hear how others are reconfiguring their job duties/positions, especially in regard to the trend towards going with electronic over print. Our university serves about 11,000 students. Thanks, Christie Christie Ericson Interim Serials Manager Consortium Library University of Alaska Anchorage 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, AK 99508 (907) 786-1990 Fax: (907) 786-4639 anlce@uaa.alaska.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Brown, Melissa Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:18 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Serials Job Duties Hello all, I am new at serials, and have a question for you. We are in the process of refiguring job duties, and I was wondering what a serials librarian includes in their jobs. Do you manage print and electronic serials? How about the databases? Full text access? Is there anything I am missing? I would like to make my case, one way or the other, to manage or not manage electronic serials, eTOC programs, etc. I think I would like to do it, but maybe that should be two different job duties? I also perform cataloging here. I am new and have been here 4 months now, so all of this is new to me. Any help is greatly appreciated. Also, any advice/wisdom/tips from those of you who have been managing serials for a while would be welcomed. Before this I was a reference/public services librarian, so all of this cataloging and serials can get confusing. We have two library workers, one of whom is on maternity leave, and they are talking about hiring the temp on after she comes back (don't get me started, whole 'nother story!). You can email me off list at mbrown@brcn.edu. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! I can summarize the responses if anyone is interested. Thanks a million from someone who is stumbling along!