Technical Services Workflow NOTE: To change the image on this slide, select the picture and delete it. Then click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. Medium, Non-consortium Public Library

Quick Facts Established 1965 to server Village of Lisle and portions of unincorporated Naperville Annual circulation more than 465,000 items Reaches 26,000+ patrons Materials budget is $560,000 Annually adds over 24,000 physical items 63 employees, 31 part-time

Librarian Cataloger Associate 30 hours Adult & Youth non-fiction Adult fiction Manages serials Para-professional 19 hours Youth fiction 37.5 hours Acquisitions Para-professional Book processing Associate 25 hours Serial check-in AV & special processing

TS WORKFLOW IN BRIEF Selection Ordering Receiving Cataloging Processing

ORDERING Dupe check, review, and order selections. Download On Order records into ILS.

RECEIVING Sort for needed categories Confirm package invoice Mark orders received Pull on order hold requests

CATALOGING MARC Searching In house Cataloging rules DLC created Be a sheep To add or not to add Searching Subject headings Keyword Genre In house Cataloging rules RDA Authority managing Series statements

PROCESSING Simplify, simplify, simplify Customize labels Pre-process by vendor

TOOLS OF THE TRADE MarcEdit, macros, and more OCLC Worldshare Cataloging partner collections Updated and Merged records Knowledge base collections Cons Pros

(INSERT LIBRARY NAME HERE) “Here at ____________ we don't take chances, we double up on everything." (INSERT LIBRARY NAME HERE) Everyone has a back up Everything is written down

QUESTIONS… Laura Murff, MLS,MJ Director of Technical Services Lisle Library District 777 Front Street Lisle IL 60532 630.971.1674 murffl@lislelibrary.org