NETSL (New England Technical Services Librarians): 2007 Spring Conference

Diane Dates Casey

Dean of Library Services/Academic Computing and Professor of Library and Information Science at Governors State University

Something Like a Star: Charting the Path to Access

In these turbulent times when Technical Services is beleaguered with an exponential growth in library materials and formats, not to mention the digital universe, as well as shrinking funding for staff and resources, Acquisitions, Cataloging and Serials librarians face difficult choices in finding a balance where Access, the "North Star" of libraries, determines the pathway into the future. Diane Dates Casey will touch on some of the many forces at play with potential to transform Technical Services and libraries in the not too distant future. Here’s a foretaste. How are digital materials changing the way we go about the acquisition, cataloging, maintenance and preservation of library collections? Some say it's all digital all the time. Really? RDA is still two years away; to some it's already out-of-date. Is claiming a relic of the past? Or, has it morphed into something new? For some Google has eliminated the need for subject analysis. But, will keywords and persistent object identifiers really cut it? Will Endeca revolutionize the OPAC? What about legacy metadata? Libraries, be they public, academic, school or special, are forced to do more with less. Access – information access for users – must be the lodestar guiding us through these wrenching decisions and keeping us true to our mission.

Diane Dates Casey is Dean of Library Services/Academic Computing and Professor of Library and Information Science at Governors State University in the far south suburbs of Chicago. Prior to taking leadership of the library in 2001, she was head of the Cataloging Department for eight years. Currently she is the ALCTS Councilor and a member of the ALCTS Board of Directors, as well as its Executive Board. In the past Casey chaired the Cataloging and Classification Section's Subject Analysis Committee and its Policy and Planning Committee. She represents the American Library Association on the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Additionally, she was an ILLINET delegate to the OCLC Members Council. Casey earned a BA in Sociology from the University at Buffalo, a MA in English Literature from The Ohio State University, a MDiv from Trinity Lutheran Seminary and a MLS from Kent State University. She lives in Oak Lawn, IL with her husband, Dr. James B. Casey, who is director of the Oak Lawn Public Library, and their three cats. Her hobbies are reading mysteries, classical music, gardening, and counted cross stitch.

Daniel N. Joudrey

Professor, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science

What Lies Ahead? A Discussion of the Future of Cataloging

Joudrey will examine the various components that are shaping discussions of the future of bibliographic control. He will address current and future cataloging standards, the future of subject headings, the current state of cataloging education, some recent reports regarding cataloging practices, and some recent technological innovations that may affect discussions about the future of bibliographic control.

Professor Daniel N. Joudrey, an expert in organizing information, joined the Simmons faculty in 2005 and teaches courses in the organization of information, descriptive cataloging, and subject cataloging. Prior to coming to Simmons, Joudrey was a teaching fellow and research assistant at the University of Pittsburgh for Dr. Arlene G. Taylor. Joudrey was also a metadata policy intern at the Library of Congress. Joudrey is assisting Dr. Taylor in the writing of the forthcoming third edition of The Organization of Information. Joudrey earned his Ph.D. and MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and his B.A. in theatre from George Washington University. His dissertation, Building Puzzles and Growing Pearls: A Qualitative Exploration of Determining Aboutness was completed in December 2005 and identified the many varied processes and operations which comprise the subject analysis process. He has just recently completed the second phase of his long-range study on cataloging education. His current research focuses on the theoretical foundations of subject determination and identifying user-derived categories used in image tagging and sorting.

Marsha Starr Paiste

Catalog Librarian, Tisch Library, Tufts University

Partnership: Key to Technical Services Workflow

Transparent interfaces between Innovative, Yankee Book Peddler, and OCLC realize a 25% reduction in student budget, improved processing turnaround time, and increased accuracy through automated processes previously handled manually by technical services staff. Come hear Anthony Kodzis and Marsha Starr Paiste describe how this partnership has developed and is working for their library, Tisch Library, at Tufts University.

Marsha Starr Paiste is currently Catalog Librarian, Acquisitions Department, Tisch Library, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. In addition to performing original cataloging, she oversees the cataloging of books with Library of Congress copy and coordinates the workflow for new monographs for both the Tisch Library and the Ginn Library of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She had worked at Tufts for over 25 years, most in a part-time or job-sharing capacity. In 1980 she received a MS in Library Science from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Tony Kodzis

Acquisition Manager, Tisch Library, Tufts University

Partnership: Key to Technical Services Workflow

Tony Kodzis is the Acquisition Manager for Tisch Library, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. The department handles acquisition, serial, government documents, LC copy cataloging, and processing functions for the Tisch and Ginn libraries. Marsha and Tony both are Tufts graduates. Tony has a M.Ed. in Religious Education from Boston College (1990).

Deborah Stansbury Sunday

Assistant Vice Provost for University Libraries, University of Connecticut

A Human Resources Perspective on the Changes in Technical Services Librarianship

Changes in scholarly communication and information distribution have had an impact on technical services processes and workflows, not to mention on the skills needed by technical services staff in order to be successful in the new environment. During this breakout session will look at these changes and reflect upon the impact they have had on Human Resources from recruitment to retention to "retooling".

Deborah Stansbury Sunday is Assistant Vice Provost for University Libraries at the University of Connecticut, with responsibility for administering the internal operations of the Libraries including the budget, facilities, and human resources/labor relations programs. She also has administrative oversight of the 5 Regional Campus Libraries. Sunday earned a bachelor's degree in Sociology from California State University, Fullerton in 1977. After receiving a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986, she began her career in the Research Libraries Residency Program at the University of Michigan. At the conclusion of the two-year program, she became the Diversity Librarian, serving in that capacity for two years. She joined the University of Washington in 1990 to begin the library at the new branch campus in Tacoma, and joined the UConn's Libraries in 1997.

Betsy Eggleston

Collection and Knowledge Management Librarian, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Loading Vendor Records for Electronic Resources

In this session, Betsy and Corinna will describe the issues they have encountered with vendor data sets, such as those from ebrary and LION. Discussion will include evaluation of data sets as well as problems before, during, and after loading data.

Betsy Eggleston is Collections and Knowledge Management Librarian at the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was the Head of HCL/FAS Cataloging Support Service in the Harvard College Library and served as the data set record reviewer for the Harvard College Library. She has an MSLS from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Corinna Baksik

Systems Librarian, Office for Information Systems, Harvard University Library

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Loading Vendor Records for Electronic Resources

Corinna Baksik is a Systems Librarian in the Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems, where she primarily handles data loads for electronic resources. She has an MSLIS from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Barry Hennessey

Acquisitions and Serials Librarian, Diamond Library, University of New Hampshire

Electronic Resource Management: Workflow Demands and Local Organizational Responses

During this session we will look at the "life cycle" of electronic resources, and at the workflow sequence and functional relationships necessary to select, acquire, implement and deliver these resources to our patrons. ERM implementation is an undertaking that – in the words of the DLF Electronic Resource Management Initiative – should strive for the "seamless interaction [of the ERM system] with traditional MARC-based online catalogs, Web portals, federated searching tools, local resolution services, local authentication and access-management systems and traditional library-management functions" – and will depend on the effective coordination of library staff from up to half a dozen traditional departments, as well as successful interaction with vendor and publisher customer and technical personnel. Attendees will leave with a checklist of considerations that may spawn new functional relationships or even formal reorganization efforts at their home institutions. Time will be reserved at the end for questions and discussion.

Barry Hennessey has been at the University of New Hampshire since 1979, where he has held appointments as catalog librarian, head of cataloging, coordinator for cataloging automation, and head of technical services (1992-2005). He has been Acquisitions and Serials Librarian since 2005, with responsibility for coordinating ERM implementation. He has served as adjunct faculty for the URI GSLIS since 1982 and for Simmons GSLIS since 2001. He holds a Ph.D. in classical philology from Harvard University and an MLS from Simmons College.