1. Technical Services Workflow
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Medium, Non-consortium Public Library

2. 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

3. 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

4. TS WORKFLOW IN BRIEF Selection Ordering Receiving Cataloging
Processing

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

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

7. 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

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

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

10. (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

11. QUESTIONS… Laura Murff, MLS,MJ Director of Technical Services
Lisle Library District
777 Front Street
Lisle IL 60532