Review
of Sets and Serials in the Oberlin College Library Split Between
Storage and the General Stacks
Mentor(s): Allison Gould
Department: Circulation
Aspects of librarianship related to the project: Cataloging
and MARC record interpretation, space planning and collection
management
Number of openings: 2 at a time
Estimated length of project: endless! Can be short-term
and be productive, however, and can be handled by different interns
over the course of the summer
Hours/day: 2 hours/day/intern
Dates available: May 23 - June 7, June 14 - end of summer.
(Can't start during June 7-14, but could be underway at that point
if someone is already working)
Description: Our project will be to extract from OBIS
information about sets of materials that are shelved partially
in a branch library and partially in storage. For example, there
may be a 20 volume set and according to OBIS, vols. 1-10 and 15-20
are in storage, the rest in Main. Now, either OBIS is wrong, or
we somehow decided to split the set up! Either way, we will identify
these materials, then review them to check if it's an OBIS error,
and shelving error, or a good decision.
This will involve:
- Figuring out how to create the reports in OBIS. We'll need
to understand fields in the MARC record that will help us create
the report
- Checking the stacks for the books
- Evaluating the materials to decide what we should do (e.g.
all in storage, all in Main, leave them split up). This will
get into matters of curricular support and space!!
- Correct OBIS as needed to reflect the decisions we've made
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