Cataloging Department Monthly Report
December 2007
Subject: Monthly Report – December 2007
Date: January 2008
From: Magda El-Sherbini, Cataloging Department Head
To: Sally Rogers, Assistant Director for Technical Services
OVERVIEW OF THE MONTH
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Western Languages Section
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Non-Roman Languages Section
Sherab Chen (section coordinator)
Sherab presented E-learning Courseware for Basic Cataloging project at CIPS on December 18. He introduced the project conducted at the Cataloging Department. The project explores feasibility and usability of e-learning application in cataloging training. It investigates current trends on library blended learning, and introduces innovative training/learning approaches into the cataloging area. Four training videos have been developed and are put on for evaluation on Cataloging's homepage. The 5th one is forthcoming. Tingting Lu, GAA at SUL's Multimedia Production Space assisted the project, thus making an interesting collaboration between Cataloging and Multimedia Production. Tingting worked at our department as an hourly student in 2006.
He worked with Melanie to set up CJK NACO procedure, and began to create Chinese name authority records. He reviewed 4 GAAs and 5 student workers' cataloging records, and provided on-site cataloging instructions.
Zaineb Bayahy (Arabic cataloging)
The most outstanding thing Zaineb is doing is learning to contribute Arabic BIBCO records. She worked with Melanie, Andrea, and other experts, and has already contributed some records. In addition to maintaining the Arabic and Middle East Cataloging workflow and reviewing Turkish GAA's works, Zaineb also helped to review Lisa's French books cataloging records for about 8 hours.
| Languages | Original | Copy | Enhanced | Total | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic books | 16 | 43 | 39 | 98 | |
| English books | 0 | ||||
| Turkish Books | 79 | 2 | 81 | ||
| French Books | 1 | 22 | 21 | 44 | |
| Turkish scores | |||||
| 223 |
Anna Batchev (Slavic cataloging)
Anna maintained the Slavic and Regional campus cataloging workflows. She cataloged 110 new Slavic books (Original cataloging 68, 2 added vol., 40 copy cataloging), 77 Czech gift books (6 original cataloging, 71 copy cataloging) and made 14 books reinstatement.
Anna explained that many of the Czech books need to establish new bibliographic records. Some she could find a Czech record to derive new one, but most of the time, the record was poor, and therefore time-consuming.
GAAs cataloging performance
ChineseYang Yu, GAA, took 20 hours of vacation during this month. She cataloged 13 Chinese books (7 in original), 8 DVDs, and corrected 2 problematic bib records.
Mei Zhao, GAA, cataloged 95 Chinese titles (22 in original, and 6 are Serials)
Hsiao-feng Tsai, hourly, cataloged 100 Chinese titles (30 in original, 9 Serials)
Miao Liu, hourly, cataloged 85 Chinese titles.
JapaneseFusako Yoneda, GAA, cataloged 92 Japanese titles (27 in original and 1 Serials)
Natsumi Hirota, GAA, cataloged 141 JMSTC titles (141 in original)
Endo Sakiko, hourly, no hours in this month.
Akina Ikudo, hourly, no hours in this month.
KoreanSang Kyo Lee from Special Collection Cataloging was helping us cataloging those Korean books. No statistics available.
TurkishSang Kyo Lee from Special Collection Cataloging was helping us cataloging those Korean books. No statistics available.
Total Number of Titles Cataloged and New Receipts
The section cataloged 1072 titles in total (more volumes), and 644 titles of new receipts.
Principal Cataloger and Special Projects
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Catalog Quality Control and Enrichment
Melanie worked with Nancy Helmick and Brian Miller to gather reserve bibliographic records and Melanie deleted 9000 records. She also loaded at Table of Contents (TOC) load from OhioLINK. Melanie attended an OCLC Pilot meeting and the OCLC Lecture on the 14th, the Faculty Meeting on the 11th, and the In-Service Instruction Day on the 6th.
| Andrea | Stephanie | Lin | Melanie | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backlog/Requested | ||||
| Completed/Referred | 13 | |||
| Remaining |
| Andrea | Stephanie | Lin | Melanie | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authority Update | ||||
| Authority Delete | 511 | |||
| Authority Reviewed | 413 | |||
| Consultation | 3 | 2 | ||
| Boolean | 9 | |||
| BIBCO reviewed | ||||
| BIBCO submitted | ||||
| NACO reviewed | ||||
| Bib/Item Deletes | 19 | 26,944 | ||
| NACO submitted | ||||
| OCLC update | 5 | 339 | ||
| Bib/Item changes | 725 | |||
| Books cataloged | 8 |
Catalog Librarian
Rocki Strader attended the following meetings and events: memorial service for Dr. Herbert Livingston (father of Gretchen Atkinson, scores cataloger in MUS), Dec. 7; OSU Autumn Quarter commencement, Dec. 9; CAT dept. staff holiday luncheon, Dec. 10; Libraries faculty meeting, Dec. 11; hard-hat tour of Thompson Library site, Dec. 12; former-EHS staff luncheon/retirement celebration for Marty Jamison and Lois Hinrichs, Dec. 17. In addition, she left early to help get her sister's son to Children's Hospital emergency room, and she was out Dec. 26-31 on vacation.
Rocki submitted application for S.R.A. for Spring Quarter 2008 to study author-assigned keywords vs. LCSH in ETDs. She plans to have an article completed by June for submission to College & Research Libraries or LRTS.
Rocki began receiving ETD Center notifications for electronic masters theses. There were 13 titles released this month.
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