Hi All,
I do not work in an academic setting, but this issue has always irked me as
a public librarian. Since finishing library school, I have worked for three
different library systems of three different sizes, but have experienced the
same issue at all three of them. Namely, the AV materials
As some of you know, I was recently complaining and whining about how our
catalog department seems to find media cataloging particularly troublesome, and
thus, we have a big back-up of materials. Also, I complained that they didn't
want to catalog our FMG Films on Demand items, because it was
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Maureen Tripp
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:40 PM
To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu'
Subject: [Videolib] prioritizing media cataloging
As some of you know, I was recently complaining and whining about how our
catalog
What do I think? I think I'd be in the office of the Head of Technical
Services quicker than you can say MARC delimited. Since when do catalogers get
to call the shots about the parts of the collection that deserve priority
access (or that get sent to bibliographic Siberia)?
Since when is
In a dimly remembered, pre-media life (1979 to 1984), I WAS the assistant
head/Acting Head of Acquisitions at UCB (really!), so I know the ropes
(or, at least, I knew them 25 years ago). I DO know that Tech Services
ARE public services: if the stuff don't get cataloged, it don't get used.
gary
A year +/- before we opened our doors in 1975, the main library on
campus was cataloging our materials. Sometime during 1976, our director
got tired of telling faculty that the video we bought for them to use in
class could not be used yet (6+ months after arrival) because it was
still in the
