Internal Procedures for Technical Services at Fogler Library

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Technical Services External Web Resources

Cataloging

• Preparation
  • Flagging
  • Pre-cat searching of URSUS
• Cataloging (Alma)
  • A to Z titles (Alma)
  • Adding Holding and Item records to Existing URSUS Records (Alma)
  • Bound with titles (Alma)
  • Copy Cataloging (Alma)
  • Detective Collection (Alma)
  • Electronic resources (Alma)
  • How To Set Up Connexion Client (Alma)
  • Non book items (Alma)
  • Overlay MLR record (Alma)
  • Template Creation and Use (Alma)
  • Transfer PO records between bib records (Alma)
• Cataloging (Sierra)
  • • A to Z titles
  • Adding item Records to Existing URSUS Records (Sierra)
  • Agricultural Experiment Station (Maine AES)
  • Baker & Taylor books
  • • Call numbers (policy for copy cataloging)
    • Checkin Card for Closed Serials
    • Command Lines Summary
  • Copy Cataloging (Sierra)
  • Copy Cataloging with Review (Sierra)
  • Crosslinking for titles bound together (Sierra)
  • Detective Books
  • Ebooks: Cataloging and linking to full text
    • Ebook and Streamed Media Cataloging Overview (Sierra)
    • 856 Display Text Standard
    • Updating record sets (Sierra)
    • Data Exchange Procedure (Sierra batchload process)
    • Gale
    • ICPSR
    • JSTOR DDA (Demand Driven Acquisition) Program
    • Springer
    • Monographs Beyond Repair
    • Hosted E-Resources
    • Serials Solutions 
    • Triggered Titles (JSTOR DDA)
  • Government Documents
  • • Creating bib records for Gov Doc series
    • Cutter list for Maine towns (HTML)
  • • State of Maine maps
  • Gift Collections
    • Virtual bookplates and inscriptions
  • Journals issues represented as monographs
  • Learning Materials Collection (LMC)
    • Downloading and item creation
  • • Graphic Novels

• Minimal Level Records (Pamphlets Model)
• Mobile Worklists
• Nonbook Items
  • Audio Cassettes
  • Audiobooks
  • Compact Discs (CD)
  • DVDs see Audiovisual Materials
  • Filmstrip see Audiovisual Materials
  • Kaltura
  • Kits
  • Maps
  • Media Resources Center (MRC) items (audiovisual, software, etc.)
  • Microform
  • Multiformat items (books with other media)
  • Music scores
  • Musical Sound Recordings see Audiovisual Materials
  • Withdrawing AV items
• OCLC
  • Batch processing
  • Batch processing Springer ebook records
  • Batch processing to delete holdings in OCLC
  • Copy Cataloging: Locating and Downloading OCLC Records
  • Copy Cataloging with Review
  • Constant data records
  • Creating Local Holdings in OCLC for Serials
  • Creating Local Holdings Records in OCLC for MSCC
  • How to Set Up Connexion Client
  • How to Move Connexion Client Save Files and Profile Settings to a New Computer
  • Text Strings in Connexion
  • Writing OCLC macros

• On-the-Fly items
• Pre-stamps
• Special Collections
  • Accompanying materials
  • Children’s books (Maine Juv)
  • City and town materials, Maine
    • Comprehensive plan uniform titles
    • Cutter list for Maine towns
  • Maine Maps
  • Multiple copies
  • Pamphlets
  • Processing Special Collections and Rare Books
  • Rare books
  • Sea Grant publications
  • State documents, Maine
  • University Publications
  • University of Maine Press
• Standards for Engineering
• Subfield Delimiters
• Theses
  • OCR and Full Text Creation
  • Theses Submitted through Digital Commons
  • Digital Commons Metadata Entry Procedures
  • Cataloging in Connexion
  • Assigning Cutter numbers
  • Other Universities (UMI Proquest)

• Transfer attached records (Sierra Interface)
• Processing
  • Bound books and journals (back from bindery)
  • Delivery of physical materials
  • Inventory project
  • Phase boxes
  • Printing Spine Labels
    • Printing queued spine labels
  • Processing newly cataloged books
  • Processing Special Collections and Rare Books
  • Remove from Reference (RFR)
  • Withdrawing and discarding materials
• RDA Resources
  • RDA checklist
• Repairs and replacements
• Repairs using a Japanese paper hinge
• Reports and Review File Creation
  • Duplicate reports
  • FAST heading maintenance

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• 2018 Town Documents Data Mining Project
• BookDrive Editor Pro guidelines
• Digital Commons
  
• Digital Commons Canned Search for URSUS (Town Reports)
• Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History (NAFOH) Digital Objects (ArchivesSpace)
• OCR and Full Text Creation (Town Reports)
• Optimizing Web Images
• Piecing Documents and Resizing
• Scanning Photographs
• Scanning Preservation Files for Special Collections
• Splitting pages in ABBYY

Serials

• Serials procedures are now housed here.

Binding

• ABLE: commercial binding shipment process
• Binding: Examination and Decision Chart
• Binding: Partial or Split Serial Volumes
• Binding: Making Phase Boxes
• Checking Serials Back in from the Bindery
• Closing Serials Title
• Holdings Statement Merger for Returned Volumes
• Preparing Issues to Send to the Bindery (Sierra steps)
• Processing Newly Bound Books and Journals
• Protecting Playbooks
• Thesis binding information (for students and academic departments)
• Types of Binding Chart
• UPS Shipping for Bindery

Miscellaneous

• Accessing Google Scholar
• Editing the IDB Drop-down Menu
• Exporting Review files to Spreadsheet
• Subject Portal Access
• Editing the Subject Portal (add or edit subject areas)
• Subject Portal Expressions for LC Ranges
• Uploading Monthly New Acquisitions to the Web

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Contact: um.library.technical.services@maine.edu