Behind the Scenes at the Library
Exhibit Dates: July – September 2002
The goal of the library catalog is to help you discover information resources and to lead you to them. We would like to show you how that is done with books, a traditional library resource.
Behind the Scenes at the Library
Exhibit created by:
David Anderson and Diane Scott
Dates of display: July-Sept. 2002
The goal of the library catalog is to help you discover information resources and to lead you to them. We would like to show you how that is done with books, a traditional library resource.
The first step in getting a book into the library is selection. Tina Demetracopoulos, one of many liaison librarians, reviews titles on order slips and in review journals.
Patti Burleson, Collection Development searcher, checks our catalog, to prevent duplication, and other sources to verify bibliographic citation information.
Sabrina Wilson from Acquisitions places orders with a book vendor.
Mikel Stewart unpacks books when they arrive. Acquisitions receives and pays for the materials.
Student assistants Shaila Philpot and Natalie Wood-Jones, as well as other Catalog Department staff, check descriptive information in the catalog record.
Daryle Maroney, a Catalog Librarian, checks access points for consistency in name headings.
Ronnie Futch, a staff cataloger, checks subject headings.
Catalogers use Library of Congress classification tables to assign call numbers. The classification tables are now online.
Mary Melchor uses the call number information to create spine labels.
Candace Smith, a student assistant, does final physical processing and marking before books leave Cataloging.
Brandon Turner in Access Services checks coding and circulation status before books are sent to the shelves.
After up to a month on the new books shelves, books are shelved in the general collection stacks, or in one of several other collections, such as Fol. (folio) or Juv. (juvenile). Jonathan Bullock is one of many shelvers.
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