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STUDENT WORK
Resource Services divides tasks among approximately 15 students, Monday through Friday only, no evenings or weekends. Many time slots are available; we especially need help 9-10am for mail delivery within the building.
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy are needed.
Work is related to ordering books and DVDs, documenting receipt and payment records in the computer, sorting mail, managing periodicals (aka magazines, newspapers, bound journals, subscriptions, serials, continuing resources and standing orders), and preparing books for the shelf.
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE in RESOURCE SERVICES
Resource Services has 3 sections with the primary purpose of updating the library collection:
Collection Management works with the Reference Librarians on what to buy, orders the print and electronic journal subscriptions and also manages the budget, accounting, and payment of invoices. There are not often student worker jobs in Collection Management.
Acquisitions & Description is responsible for the purchase and cataloging of all books (sometimes called monographs, aka firm and approval orders), videos, and music. We order over 10,000 titles per year, with an expenditures budget of over $600,000.
Continuing Resources is a fancy term for ongoing or serial publications like journals, magazines, and even books in series which just keep on coming, all the time. The work involves getting new journal issues onto the shelves in Current Periodicals and the Mandelbaum Room and also taking them off the shelves and bundling them up to be sent to the bindery. It also involves adding new U.S. Government Documents to the collection. The library spends over 2 million dollars on journals each year, but only a few of them still come on paper.
Database Management is all about keeping the information in the catalog accurate. When we move books out of reference into the regular part of the collection (the main stacks) or when we transfer books to the off-campus storage facility, someone has to update the information in the catalog to show the correct, new location.