Outside In to Inside Out - Caltech Best Practices
Transcript of Outside In to Inside Out - Caltech Best Practices
Outside-in to inside-outChanging from cataloging inventory to
scholarly metadata management
2007-2011
• 8.5 FTE to 6.5 FTE – 65% staff, 35% pro to 15% staff, 85% pro
• Automate with approval plan, PromptCat, batch processing
• Items cataloged >21,198 despite heavy weeding
• Document policies and procedures – reduce ad-hoc decisions
& time spent finding info or figuring out how to do things
• Improved withdrawal = better holdings quality & maintenance
• Regularize database maintenance and quality control
• Culture shift: improve communication with meetings & wiki,
decrease number of request channels
To infinity and beyond!
• Citation services• Theses work flow• Identity management• NACO certification• Linked data
project(s)• ORCID• LOD-LAM• New programmer =
new development work
Image courtesy of and copyrighted by Pixar
“It may be time to unbundle the inventory function from the human knowledge
function" to fulfill library mission”-Karen Coyle
[email protected]://library.caltech.edu/laura