UCB Libraries

 

Special Collections & Archives Cataloging

Anna Ferris
Anna.Ferris@colorado.edu
303-492-4534

Associate Professor
Head of Special Collections & Archives Cataloging

James P. Ascher
James.Ascher@colorado.edu
303-492-6104

Assistant Professor
Rare Books Catalog Librarian

Josie Fania
Josie.Fania@colorado.edu
303-492-5514
Library Technician III
Archives & Special Materials

Mission:

To facilitate intellectual access to tangible materials requiring special handling due to their irreplacability, artifactual or cultural value, or provenance—especially those items within our special collections and archives.


Goals:

  • Manage descriptive workflows
  • Identify work projects
  • Develop procedures
  • Match employee skills to tasks
  • Document progress
  • Shape description to fit within institutional and national standards
  • Maintain alliances with associated units and departments

Objectives:

  • Develop a workflow for managing unexpected, ad hoc work
  • Create a manual of procedures
  • New Projects
  • Rare books
  • Continue to accurately describe collections to their appropriate depth
  • Complex copy and upgrading of brief records
  • Original, and complex copy, rare books
  • All other original
  • Identify and assign staff to projects
  • Manage carts of materials to facilitate staff workflows
  • Facilitate communication between CMS and Special Collections
  • Facilitate communication between CMS and Archives
  • Maintain accurate and timely statistics for cataloging activities
  • Individual monthly reports of activities
  • Periodic team meetings

 

Last updated February 22, 2012