Special Collections & Archives Cataloging
|
Anna
Ferris |
Associate Professor |
|
James P. Ascher |
Assistant Professor |
| 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
