Collections Management
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· Responsible for collection development, assessment of collection strengths, preservation, storage, cancellation projects, coordination of gifts, grants,endowments and major approval plans.
· Also do investigative work for the Associate Director, Collections, and the Collections Committee, and involved in developing MSpace collections
· What’s working well – have developed more helpful web pages related to collection assessments; use Citation Linker all the time in CM and find it very helpful for journal checking (has a good feedback/question mechanism – the automatic email to ER – and responses from ER are prompt); CM involved in a team that coordinated better subject access to E-Library resources, which is working better [but E-Library pages need ongoing attention and development, and the issue of providing better access to E-Library resources is bigger than improving subject access]; have found working with Digital Library Development (LETS) and Bibliographic Control on MSpace and on making improvements to E-Library to be fruitful collaborations.
· Challenges – want to provide more immediate access to E-Library resources, that is, from the Libraries’ home page but it is not clear (possible topic for an all staff meeting presentation?) how a re-design of the Libraries’ web pages will be resolved; want to move on the development of faculty publication collections in MSpace but need more staff time and agreement on priorities; concerned about preservation of electronic collections (not something that can be done without collaboration); would prefer email messages about BISON and Workflows be sent to all Libraries’ staff not just to the Lib-BISON listserv (are new staff given a choice?); would like better access to usage statistics for print collections (Director’s Workstation?), for electronic resources (which may involve better reports from vendors or an intermediary service such as Scholarly Stats), and document delivery (may involve software development that would normalize or translate abbreviations and acronyms or variant forms of names to standard journal names, for instance); need to provide more info on CM website, e.g. template for collection policy statements, updated collection policy statements.