Placement+-+Day+One

DAY ONE As usual I have as many WEB.2 options going at once. BLOG (a pictorial depiction of my time at SCA (arty)) http://scaplacement.blogspot.com/2011/09/day-one.html

Arrived and got a run down of the library.

Staffing is short due to a freese on all library positions, meaning that no more people are being employed during 2010.

2 librarians (qualified librarians) 3 library technichans (TAFE qualification) 1 librarian is on loan form the conservatorium due one staff being on leave all year.

2 Students that do the shelving.

Book Processing Books come in at 3pm every day. NEW Books. Catalogued by cataloguer at main campus. No jacket covers come with books if they are hard back as it was decided that no Sydney university libraries cover books. Books are scanned in to Millenium and checked to see if the information is correct on the sytem. The cost of the item is taken into account as many artist DVD's are in the hundreds if the items is expensive it is put behind the counter.

The book has stickers put on it (ie call number, 7 day loan and a coloured dot to state what section it is to be placed in. At SCA they use contact to cover books but policy is that Sydney University Libraries do not cover books.

The section it is placed in corresponds to the section of the budget it was purchased out of. Ie Blue Dot (purchased for an academic and placed in the 3 day loan section)

At this time a list of new books and DVD's is created and this is done in a word document. The title is cut out of the cataluge along with an image and url. This is turned into a PDF and sent to Post grad and staff.

Fianlly the new item is changed in the systme to recently catalogued.

First Job

Each day a list of books is sent to the library for interlibrary loans. I got the list collected the books and placed at the front counter. The books are marked in transit and are deliverd to Fisher library at main campus.

I created the DVD list for Monday

On the front desk from 1-3pm Learnt how to loan out books using Millenium http://www.iii.com/products/millennium_ils.shtml Its a web based software and is very user friendly.

I then shelved 25 journals.

The library technician that is level 5 talked to me about the things he does. He deals with the the organisation of the other technicians and the back ground stuff related to loan fines, rosters for library staff and delegating jobs. At SCA this does not happen through the level 5 as he is only in Monday so he really just deals with loan fines disputes, determines if resources need to be replaced.

Notes I made on the train (on the second day about the first day) SCA

Statistics are very important. The door counts patrons as they enter. Three hand counters are kept at loans desk. One for short consultations with students, one for long consultations and one for when journals are put away. All shelving is counter. Classes are counted. These statistics were used last year to increase the days of one staff member. The inter- library loans are counted as are the loans.

Budget is twent nine thousand.

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