"Information Resources Management"?

Vague, bureaucratic, and banal all at once, and worse (because more
prolix) than "Technical Services".  Suggest your supervisors toss their
copy Jimmy Carter's Aesthetics of Nomenclature.   IW

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Kitti Canepi
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:47 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Combining materials acquisitions and cataloging
depts.

I suppose whatever title we use, no one really knows what it means
outside
of the library.  Our combined Acquisitions, Cataloging, and Preservation

unit is called Information Resources Management

Kitti

At 08:10 AM 8/12/2005, you wrote:
>Evelyn,
>
>We did things a little differently at Northeastern, so I'm not sure
this
>well be helpful.   We reorganized Technical Services into Print and
>Non-Print Management.  Within each dept. are a Receipt and Resource
Control
>unit (that's check-in, mail and cataloging on receipt) and an Orders
and
>Metadata Management unit (acq., complex cataloging, projects, database
>maintenance).   Because our electronic collections were growing so
quickly
>and we were developing an Institutional Repository for which records
would
>need to be reviewed, it was felt that creating a non-print unit would
best
>serve our constituents.
>
>On a more practical note, I've heard of departments called
Bibliographic
>Services.  Throwing words like metadata into a name makes it sound
>impressive to people outside the dept./library.  :-  )
>
>Anne
>
>===================================
>Anne Campbell Moore
>Assistant Head, Non-Print Management
>Northeastern University Libraries
>617.373.2726 (v)          617-373-8396 (f)
>a.moore@neu.edu
>===================================

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Kitti Canepi
Head, Information Resources Management
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Morris Library, Mailcode 6632
605 Agriculture Drive
Carbondale, IL  62901-6632
voice: (618) 453-1174
fax: (618) 453-3452
email: kcanepi@lib.siu.edu

"If you deal in absolutes, there's not much incentive to find a middle
path."
   -  Blaise Cronin, Dean, Indiana University School of Library &
Information Science