From: David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:04:07 -0500 Subject: Re: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal procedures -- Mary Bailey It depends on the paraprofessional. The really good ones are of course capable of doing --and organizing -- all the necessary work--just as for the really good professionals. The obvious advice is to use the best people you have, and not be concerned abou t formal rank. May you all have nonprofessional staff as good as some of the ones I have worked with! Dr. David Goodman Princeton University Library dgoodman@princeton.edu ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:49:35 -0600 > From: redhead <redhead@ksu.edu> > Subject: RE: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal > proc edures -- > 2 messages > > > We have had paraprofessional staff working with e-journals for 2 years > now. Ordering (of packages) is done by acquisitions staff, but all > cataloging and maintenance is done by the serials u nit (3-4 > paraprofessionals and one original cataloger). > > We verify access when cataloging and have just begun a plan to verify > access once a year (requesting a list from the publisher to get any > newtitles and check what has changed. We use a holdings statement > thatgives the oldest materials available at the time last viewed. > EX: v.4 (1990)- (as of 02/2002). > Since things change so quickly and so few places send out > notification, we feel this is the best we can do right now. > > Problems with access are routed to the Serials Manager as they are > foundas no regular maintenance is done other than the once a year > check. > Hope this helps. > > > >===== Original Message From "SERIALST: Serials in Libraries > DiscussionForum" > <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> ===== > >2 messages: > > > >1)------------------------------------ > >From: "Harper, Paulina" <harperp@uhd.edu> > >Subject: RE: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal > procedures -- > >Eleanor Co ok > >Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:06:37 -0600 > > > > > >I too am interested in hearing your responses to this query. Our > >technical services department is in the process of reorganizing, > and I > >ultimately want to give one of my paraprofessional staff members > some >responsibility for maintaining ejourn al subscriptions and > access. > However, this is not a function that is being done > methodically here now > >-- problems are dealt with as they are serendipitously > discovered, but > >we don't have any method for systematically verifying that access is > >available (on an issue by i ssue level; of course we verify that > we have > >access to new subscriptions, etc.). > >So, what procedures are you all using for this function, and what > are >you doing as far as having paraprofessional or professio nal > staff do > >these activities? > > > >Thanks, > >Paulina Harper > > > >------------------------------------------------- > >Paulina V. Harper > >Serials Librarian > >University of Houston-Downtown > >One Main St. > >Houston, Texas 77002 > > > >Off ice: 713.221.8464 > >Fax: 713.221.2 752 > >E-mail: harperp@uhd.edu <')" >harperp@uhd.edu> > >------------------------------------------------- > > > >2)-------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:43:54 -0900 > >From: Alexis Tibor <alexis.ti bor@uaa.alaska.edu> > >Organization: U niversity of Alaska Anchorage > >Subject: Re: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal > procedures >--Eleanor Cook > > > >We have not yet made the change, but future plans indicate that > myself >and a coworker (neither librarians) who work in the serials > department >will soon be handling ejournal upkeep. Purchasing of > all journals, > >whether print or online, is done by someone else. We have one > librarian >who handles the electronic/online at the moment, but the > plans seem to > >be that although he is doing the setup we will be doing the > maintenance. > I must admit this concerns me. We rarely have any > free time so I am > >wondering how we are going to be able to add this new duty to our > >workflow. It may be necessary to d o some duty shifting. We had > >actually planned on starting by now, but with our library being > attached >to the Divine/Faxon problem and our need to soon switch > our serials > >checkin software has put the project on hold. > > > >--Alexis Tibor > >Consortium Library > >University of Alaska Anchorage > >3211 Providence Drive > >Anchorage Alaska 99508 > > > >Alexis.Tibor@uaa.alaska.edu > >(907) 786-4627 > >(907) 786-6050 fax > > > > > > > -----Original Messag e----- > > > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:44:00 -0500 > > > From: Eleanor Cook <cookei@appstate.edu> > > > Subject: Paraprofessional Staff working with e-journal procedures > > > > > > Dear SERIALST colleagues, > > > > ><snip> > > > > > If you have paraprofessional staff doing anything in relation > to the > > > ordering or upkeep of e-journals, please let me know. W hat > are they > > > doing, not doing and what level in your system are they. How > do they > > > feel about this added responsibility? If you have a current > position > > descri ption on file, please send it to me. > > > > > > Thanks much, > > > > > > Eleanor Cook > > > > > > Mary Bailey > redhead@ksu.edu > Serials Manager > Kansas State University Libraries > Manhattan, KS 66506
