Staff to Contact
Please consult the list below to determine which staff to contact in
the Acquisitions and Licensing Department and the Cataloging and Metadata Department
to address particular problems or issues.
**NOTE**
When sending material, include the following information:
The name of the staff member
to whom the material is being sent
A brief note saying what you want done with the material
Your name (very important; we may need to contact you)
Example:
Terri Smith
Please withdraw this book.
Vernon Kisling
Approval profiling questions: Paul Lightcap
Authorities: Priscilla
Williams, Gerald Langford,
Haiyun Cao
(Ex:
You find a cross-reference in the catalog that leads nowhere.
You
find records for works by J.D. Salinger under Salinger, J.D.
... and under Salinger, Jerome David ... in the library catalog.)
Cataloging software questions: Greg
Allen
(Ex.
Your liaison has questions about these specific programs: Aleph,
Connexion, Cataloger's Desktop, Classification Web, Notis, RLIN)
Claiming:
Monographs:
Paul Lightcap
Serials:
Travis Schaben
E-Resources: Doug Kiker
Fund monitoring:
Monographs:
Paul Lightcap
Serials:
Raimonda Margjoni
Fund transfers: Jack Waters, Kerstin Rao
Gifts: David Allerton
(Ex:
A patron wants to donate books to the libraries.
You have books a professor
gave to your library.
You
have materials that have already been withdrawn, and you want to offer
them to another library.)
Invoice payment:
Monographs: Paul Lightcap
Serials:
Sonia Tergas
Macro Express: Jason Fleming
Miscataloged materials and other cataloging related issues:
Humanities
and Special Collections: Nancy Poehlmann
Science
and Social Science: Jimmie
Lundgren
Serials:
Naomi Young
(Ex:
All the other volumes in this series are classed together, but this
one's classed separately.
The
Aleph record for a book has no subject headings at all.
A book has been
given a QA call number, but
you're sure it should be QC)
Serials Added Volumes:
No
open order: Todd Chisholm
Open
order record: Raimonda Margjoni
Any
G& E record: Raimonda
Margjoni
Serials without records in Aleph (i.e., new serial titles): Todd Chisholm
Serial ADDs (with or without order records):
Angela Stewart or Raimonda Margjoni
(Ex.
The 2003 yearbook is already in your location. You have received the
2004 yearbook.)
Serial title changes:
Travis Schaben or Raimonda Margjoni
Serial cancellations:
Travis Schaben (Angela Stewart backup)
New
materials (not yet cataloged; not gifts):Patsy Mongo
(Ex:
You find a book in someone's office that is owned by the library but
is uncataloged or
you
decide an uncataloged foreign document should be cataloged)
Ordering:
Monographs:
Paul Lightcap
Serials:
Angela Stewart
Postcataloging & Aleph Problems:
Terri
Smith
(Ex:
You have book to be withdrawn, transferred, or reclassified from Dewey
to LC.
You have a book with an unlinked item record.
There is a typo in the title on Aleph.
You can't find the record for a cataloged book on Aleph)
Processing & Labeling Problems: Douglas
Smith
(Ex:
You find a book whose label has fallen off.
The book belongs in LAC, but does not have a + above the call number)
Receiving:
Monographs:
Paul Lightcap
Serials:
Raimonda Margjoni
Web site maintenance:
Acquisitions
and Licensing: Jason Fleming
Cataloging
and Metadata: Greg Allen
Retrospective Analytics: Naomi
Young
(Ex:
You want the Cataloging and Metadata Department to provide individual
bibliographic
records
for issues of a particular series in the case where the library catalog
only has
one
bibliographic record representing the entire series.)
Rush Requests: Copy Cataloging Unit
Staff (Sharon Holder or Patsy
Mongo )
(Ex:
A patron asks you about the Rush Request he turned in previously)
Systems Liaison computer hardware questions:
Acquisitions
and Licensing: Michael Jay
Cataloging
and Metadata: Greg Allen
Vendor database questions:
Monographs:
Paul Lightcap
Serials:
Raimonda Margjoni
