Date:         Sun, 12 Sep 1993 04:44:00 -0800
From:         Crystal_Graham%UCSDLIBRARY.UCSD.EDU@SDSC.BITNET

As the newly-appointed head of serials cataloging at the University of
California, San Diego, I am expected to set up performance standards for the
catalogers.  Does anybody have targets, quotas, expectations, etc., they would
be willing to share?

I know there is a great temptation to flare about the injustice of it all --
reference librarians don't have quotas, quality is more important than
quantity, some serials are thorny problems, etc., etc.  In monographic
cataloging I found the yardstick of 1 hour per original record to be a fairly
reliable average, but I have no clue for serials.  I recognize that in serials
cataloging,  original cataloging is sometimes much easier than
reconciling the OCLC copy with the piece in hand.

All that said, I really do have to come up with some numbers.

Please reply to me personally (as well as the List if you like).  Thanks!

Crystal Graham
University of California, San Diego
cgraham@ucsd.edu