Voyager Basics Procedures
Branch Procedures
Central Cataloguing Procedures
Better World Books
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Voyager Basics Procedures
- MARC 21: a quick summary (24 March 2004)
- Relationships among bibliographic records, holding records and item records (24 March 2004)
- How to enter diacritics in the Cataloguing client (8 March 2004)
Branch Procedures
- Basic item maintenance in the Circulation client (27 April 2004)
- Call number corrections (22 July 2004)
- On-the-fly items (22 July 2004)
- Transfers and slides (22 July 2004)
- Withdrawals (22 July 2004)
Central Cataloguing Procedures
Searching for Cataloguing Copy
Holdings
- UBC Library’s application of NISO standards for monograph & serial holdings statements (20 March 2007)
- The “Diversion List”
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 digitial initiatives, and are willing to take on more projects as need arises. These services include the following:
- cIRcle
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ongoing)
- Projects
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- Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
- Mine Reclamation symposia papers
- 2011 Tailings and Mine Waste conference papers
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- CONTENTdm
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- Chinese-Canadian Historical Recognition Project
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cIRcle Projects
- ETD work
- Mining
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 an external organization for distribution to other libraries. To read an overview of the gifts process, please click here.
Better World Books
UBC Point Grey, UBCO, and the UBC Bookstore have developed partnerships with Better World Books, an award winning online bookstore “with a soul” based in Atlanta, GA. This company is considered a trail blazer among newly emerging socially and environmentally responsible businesses that makes every effort to resell materials sent to it from libraries and institutions around the world. To read more about UBC’s involvement with Better World Books, please click here.
Configuring Z39.50
Z39.50 Parameters for VOYAGER
People