Carol Waggoner-Angleton February 16, 2010

1. Talking Technical: with Kyle McCarrell, Head of Technical Services, Reese Library Augusta State University Carol Waggoner-Angleton February 16, 2010

2. Stats on Kyle McCarrell Kyle has been the Technical Services Librarian at Reese Library for 7 months. This is his first professional library position

3. Stats on Kyle McCarrell BA in music for Cedarville College MA in music from the Cincinnati Conservatory of of Music Found that he didn’t find professional satisfaction as a school band director Kyle had an epiphany. He was meant to be a librarian. Back to school

4. Stats on Kyle McCarrell • While a student • Kyle had an internship in cataloging with the USC music library • He also worked for the music library as a student assistant • He was also a graduate assistant for a class in Library Instruction Course Design • With MLIS in hand, Kyle was set to be a music subject librarian

5. Stats on Kyle McCarrell Technical services offered something music librarianship did not. A JOB! Kyle brings a passion for detail to his job and an appreciation that cataloging can have right, wrong and grey areas for answers. He enjoys the responsibility that comes from being the backbone of all services the library offers His greatest challenges so far have been getting a handle on the acquisitions process and restoring lapsed vendor relationships Future goals the department include establishing a standard of more complete catalog records and streamlining workflows

6. Kyle’s Kingdom

7. Kyle’s Colleagues Top left – Amanda Strever, Acquisitions Assistant Top right – Kate Culver, Cataloging Assistant Bottom left – Jann-Marie Chandler Not pictured – Marcia Reese, Serials Assistant Arielle White – Student assistant

8. Technical Services Workflow: Acquisitions Books and serials are acquired from requests and suggestions by faculty members Requests can be submitted by the Gobi acquisitions software or by email. E-mails must include title, author, date, publisher and ISBN or ISSN if available Requests are checked to see that they are not already held and prices on items are checked in more than one database to secure best price Acquisitions information is tracked by an Excel spreadsheet

9. Technical Services Workflow: Cataloging Monographs and Serials When a book or serial arrives it is checked against the invoice and placed on the “In” cart Books are other items are cataloged by Kate. Serials are managed by Marcia Most records are added by copy cataloging. Kate and Marsha add additional information from the item in hand or additional information to meet local needs Records are created in OCLC Connexion and pushed to the Voyager catalog and OCLC World Cat if applicable

10. Technical Services Workflow: Cataloging Monographs and Serials

11. Technical Services Workflow: Cataloging Monographs and Serials

12. Technical Services Workflow: Final Touches Jann – Marie is actually assigned to Government Documents but works in Technical Services when demand is high. She adds the spine labels and bar codes Arielle – adds the ownership stamps and strips (activates) the bar code Kyle double checks the item record and hands the item back to Amanda who checks each item in and notifies the requester that the item is available

13. Advice from Kyle Be prepared to have the job market modify your career goals. Stay flexible Looking to the future – Kyle feels that RDA may take a long time to be adopted as a cataloging standard The advantages of RDA have not been clearly articulated to the community Records will be improved by more additional features, such as access to content pages, and stricter adherence to controlled vocabularies