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The Public Side of Technical Services

Becky Yoose

Bibliographic Systems Librarian

Miami University

Oxford, OH

ALAO 2010

Statistics

Error reporting

Gifts

Acquisitions

Reports

Electronic Resource Access

Record codes

Serials cancellations

Collection Projects

Local fields

PoliciesProcedures

Personnel

Theses

Dissertations

“The J-Box 1” by jelaga, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1115991

How do we turn this…

… into this?

“The J-Box 2” by jelaga, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1115992

Questions…

“Day 123 – Thinking Cat,” by MissTessmacher, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bassclarinetist/4576439746/

Audience

“standing watch,” by amanky, http://www.flickr.com/photos/amanky/21541068/

Content“Pile of cat toys,” bypluckytree, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pluckytree/2373044460/

“don’t worry, i’m from tech support,” by the boy on the bike, http://www.flickr.com/photos/buro9/298998542/

“Gata hecho en mexico,” by Carbon Arc, http://www.flickr.com/photos/41002268@N03/3821896163/

Thank you! Questions?

Becky [email protected]: yo_bj “Sprocket the Box Cat 2,” by steve caddy,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecaddy/1812265762/

Handout information

• Resources– Wang, Jianrong, and Vera Gao. “Technical services on the net: where are we now? A

comparative study of sixty web sites of academic libraries.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 30, no. 3 (May 2004): 218 - 221.

– List of public Technical Services Websites (including examples shown in presentation): http://liswiki.org/wiki/Technical_services

• If your department has a web site and it is not listed, please add it to the list! </public service announcement>

– TS Front Page for library staff (Miami University): http://libguides.lib.muohio.edu/ts

• Tools for TS Front Page– Libguides: http://libguides.com/ – Wordpress (hosted blog): https://wordpress.com/ – Google docs (spreadsheets and forms): https://docs.google.com/

• Criteria– What is the purpose of your site?– Who will be the audience?– What will your site have for content?– What will the site maintenance look like? Content maintenance?