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Technical Services Flowchart
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| SELECTION |
- Select books from standard review sources
- Review multiple "Best Book" lists
- Manage approval plans
- Oversee standing orders
- Receive and process recommendations from faculty, staff, and students
- Identify subject area selection needs based on the Instructional Program and Reference Desk interactions
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| ORDERING |
- Check local Catalog for title
- If title is NOT on order/owned, download title (MARC) record from LCMARC or create brief title record
- Assemble electronic purchase order. Place order. Send order via e-mail
- "On order" status automatically displayed in Public Online Catalog
- Add patron requests to order record, when necessary
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| RECEIVING |
- Unbox books, check titles against shipping list/invoice
- Record receipt in system, automatically updates "On order" to "Order received"
- Pull requested books for rush cataloging/processing
- Shelve books by date, vendor, invoice in preparation for cataloging
- Initiate payment of invoice to vendors
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| CATALOGING |
- Rush requests first; and First in, first out
- Check titles in catalog
- Obtain latest/best cataloging record from OCLC
- Post Delta's holding in OCLC
- Download MARC record over local record
- Edit/enhance record as necessary
- Check/add/update local authority records
- On rare ocassion, create original catalog record
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| PROCESSING |
- Prepare books with labels, identification stamping/embossing, covers, etc.
- Create item record in catalog
- Place books on "New Items Inventoried" shelf for preview by reference staff
- Place requested books on "Hold" shelf
- Shelve items on public "New books" shelf
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