At Hallam we have centralised cataloguing, so there are no real issues of who does what. With reclassification projects, I have looked at how much could simply be mapped across and globally edited with the LMS (thus requiring library assistant time to handle each book and re-label). For the areas which required looking at individual titles, we have had some support from subject teams, but it has been clear that they were following our directions. This has worked well for a number of projects.
Best wishes
Helen
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Sent: 26 September 2011 12:44
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Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Out-sourcing and role of non-metadata specialist staff
I think I am in a bit of a dilemma here at Anglia Ruskin University.
Through a restructure that started in 2007, our subject librarians' responsibilities for cat. & class. were taken from them, their job titles were changed, and my post was created (and we went shelf-ready).
Most of these colleagues were happy to let me "take over" both cataloguing and classification responsibilities, but there has been some resistance, as would be expected, with a few colleagues being very reluctant to let go. While this has eased off considerably, in the meantime, as far as cataloguing is concerned, this feeling of ownership seems to be much stronger, interestingly, when it comes to classification issues.
Theoretically, management being very supportive of my role and of the direction we took during the restructure, clear lines of responsibility could be drawn quite easily, were it not for the fact that our cataloguing team consists of only myself, and that at the moment I can't see any alternative to sharing my DDC23 re-class. workload with my faculty support colleagues (our former subject librarians)...
It would be interesting for me to hear from colleagues at other organisations about involvement of subject librarians and other non-cataloguing-and-metadata staff in reclassification projects.
Would also like to mention that I really appreciate having been made aware of the "conversion" - "reclassification" aspect, which I had never thought of before. In roughly two years' time, one of our nursing sites will close, and its library stock will be integrated with one of our main campus libraries, so will have to convert from NLM and LC to DDC.
Best wishes,
Birgit
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Birgit Fraser
Assistant Librarian, Cataloguing and Metadata
University Library
Anglia Ruskin University
Chelmsford
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Sent: 26 September 2011 11:59
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Out-sourcing and role of non-metadata specialist staff
Hello,
Thank you all for the great discussion so far. We'd now like to move the discussion to contemplating practical issues relating to reclassification projects. We're going to start with discussing out-sourcing, something that a number of you have already mentioned. We'd also like to take up the point about the role of subject librarians in classification and what impact this might have on reclassification projects, and broaden the discussion to contemplating the role of all other non-metadata specialist staff in reclassification projects.
What are your views and/or experiences of out-sourcing your reclassification project? Do you have any experiences of working with outsourcing reclassification that you would like to share? For anyone with subject librarians who do part of the cataloguing/classification workflow, what impact did this have or do you expect this to have on your reclassification project? Who did or does the relabeling and reshelving of stock relating to your reclassification project, and do you have any thoughts to share on this matter?
Best wishes,
Debbie
Deborah Lee
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Book Library
Courtauld Institute of Art
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