After meeting with Jason, I met with Cindy, Chris, Jeanette, Melissa, and Daniel who are all members of the Collection Development and Management part of the library. Cindy is the Associate Department Head to where she orders books, chooses what books are chosen, works with vendors to choose books, gives certain topics to vendors to find books, checks reviews to see if the books she might choose are good, get books people suggest, get books teachers want, and supervises that the travel time for the book to get from where it is at to the library is accurate. What's sad is that her job will soon be eliminated, but Cindy hopes to continue to at least still be working at Yale or as a research assistant. Next I met with Chris, who's main job is to catalog. She gets the books that either Cindy has bought, that others have donated, or that libraries have sent to the medical library and catalogs them. She does this by putting a code number on the book, and doing a descriptive cataloging that says hoe many image pages the book may have, how many pages the book has in total, etc and puts all that info. into the computer. She also works with a program called Hinari done through Switzerland getting subjects for people looking for journals. Jeanette's job is to mainly put serial numbers for Journals or electronic journals. She also works with Hinari, updating the dates of old journals. Melissa job is to order electronic books, catalog those books, and also labels books with Chris and electronic books. She also works with Hinari making it easier for people to access the journals. Now Daniel is the manager of the department. his job is to make the goals for the department, the assignments, sign time sheets, manage the library collection, manages the budget for book buying, looks at statistics and usage data of books to get those books used more. He also manages an electronic book called "UP to DATE" and the program Hinari. Even though each member has a different role, there is still a lot of team work.
YALE MEDICAL LIBRARY
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Meeting with the members of Collection Development and Management (Continue July 9, 2009)
After meeting with Jason, I met with Cindy, Chris, Jeanette, Melissa, and Daniel who are all members of the Collection Development and Management part of the library. Cindy is the Associate Department Head to where she orders books, chooses what books are chosen, works with vendors to choose books, gives certain topics to vendors to find books, checks reviews to see if the books she might choose are good, get books people suggest, get books teachers want, and supervises that the travel time for the book to get from where it is at to the library is accurate. What's sad is that her job will soon be eliminated, but Cindy hopes to continue to at least still be working at Yale or as a research assistant. Next I met with Chris, who's main job is to catalog. She gets the books that either Cindy has bought, that others have donated, or that libraries have sent to the medical library and catalogs them. She does this by putting a code number on the book, and doing a descriptive cataloging that says hoe many image pages the book may have, how many pages the book has in total, etc and puts all that info. into the computer. She also works with a program called Hinari done through Switzerland getting subjects for people looking for journals. Jeanette's job is to mainly put serial numbers for Journals or electronic journals. She also works with Hinari, updating the dates of old journals. Melissa job is to order electronic books, catalog those books, and also labels books with Chris and electronic books. She also works with Hinari making it easier for people to access the journals. Now Daniel is the manager of the department. his job is to make the goals for the department, the assignments, sign time sheets, manage the library collection, manages the budget for book buying, looks at statistics and usage data of books to get those books used more. He also manages an electronic book called "UP to DATE" and the program Hinari. Even though each member has a different role, there is still a lot of team work.
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