Cataloguing Services
The department provides a number of library-wide services in the interests of providing and maintaining optimum access to our collections, in the most timely way possible. These services include the following:
- Cataloguing of current receipts
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- Approvals
- Firm Orders
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- Cataloguing of gifts and “take ins”
- Rush cataloguing (upon request of patrons and staff)
- Cataloguing pdfs and other printouts from the Web
- Cataloguing of ebooks: individual and sets
- Catalogue maintenance
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- Branch revision requests
- “Report a problem” follow-up from the OPAC
- URL additions to the catalogue for open access electronic surrogates
- Projects:
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- Inventory cleanup
- Retrospective conversion
- Broken link (url) resolution
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Metadata Services
The department provides a number of metadata services in support of the Library’s Digital Initiatives, and are willing to take on more projects as need arises.
Book Prep
The department also engages in a number of activities to support the identification, housing, circulation, preservation and security of our physical collections. These activities include the following:
- Receiving materials to be catalogued from Library branches
- Barcoding
- Tattletaping
- Top-stamping
- Spine labeling
- Shipping catalogued materials to Library branches
Gifts handling
The department assists selectors in the dispersal of gift materials, both to the cataloguing department for processing for UBC Library branches and to external organizations for distribution to other libraries.
Configuring Z39.50
Z39.50 Parameters for VOYAGER
