Carol: Are you going to pull together in summary fashion the
info. which is being shared in response to your survey --
hopefully! John
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Kate Harcourt wrote:
> Carol
>
> High level paraprofessionals contribute BIBCO records (original and OCLC
> enhance) for belles lettres only. They receive NACO training and training
> in classification in-house. We went this route to free original
> catalogers for more difficult material and to take advantage of
> the language expertise of our support staff.
>
> Kate
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Carol Hixson wrote:
>
> > I have two questions that I would like to have input on from other
> > BIBCO libraries:
> >
> > 1) How many of you have paraprofessional catalogers doing some of
> > your BIBCO cataloging?
> >
> > (Lest anyone think that I have an axe to grind about this, one way or the
> > other, let me just state: I think this is an institutional decision that
> > depends
> > on a lot of factors. It is not something that I think the PCC should be trying
> > to "legislate" in any way. I am simply trying to get a sense of what
> > current reality is for BIBCO libraries.)
> >
> > 2) If you do have paraprofessionals doing BIBCO cataloging, do you
> > rely on in-house training for MARC, AACR2, subject analysis, and
> > classification? Or do you send staff to training sessions provided by
> > other agencies?
> >
> > I have personal knowledge of BIBCO workflows at four different libraries,
> > all of which have paraprofessionals contributing BIBCO records. In my own
> > library, all of our high level paraprofessional catalogers contribute BIBCO
> > records, both full and core, original and upgraded. The training that they
> > have received in general cataloging concepts and tools has largely been
> > provided in house.
> >
> > Carol Hixson
> > Head, Catalog Dept.
> > University of Oregon
> >
>
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