The
Best and the Brightest?: Collection Development and Missing Art
Books
Mentor(s): Barbara Prior
Department: Art Library
Aspects of librarianship related to the project: Collection
Development, Circulation, Bibliographic tools and skills
Number of openings: 2-4
Estimated length of project: Negotiable (Minimum commitment
of 20 hours per fellow)
Hours/day: Flexible (Between Mon. - Fri., 8:00 - 4:30)
Dates available: April 29, 2001 - August 30, 2001
Preferred skills/knowledge: Ability to work independently,
enjoy 'detective work' ability to learn how to search bibliographic
databases (both in-print and out-of-print sites) ability to read
a bibliographic citation, reading knowledge of western European
languages helpful
Additional comments: any additional clarifying details
about availability, project length, deadlines, flexibility in
hours to be worked, etc.
Description: People love art books; all those beautiful
illustrations are hard to resist! So it is not surprising that
we have a rather large list of books that are marked as "missing"
in OBIS. Unfortunately missing books are probably also of interest
to our current patrons, so we'd like to replace or find these
missing books if at all possible. Some "missing" books are known
to be lost (patrons couldn't find them and have paid for their
replacement) while others may just be mis-shelved.
As the list is rather long it would be best to work with small
sections at a time. This project should probably be done on a
part-time basis (less than 20 hours a week), but this is negotiable.
Searching must be done on a set schedule; students will check-in
and out with a library staff member at the begining and end of
each shift.
Here are the steps the project will follow:
- Search the Carnegie stacks for the remaining missing titles
(Art and Main were searched last summer). Mornings are preferred
since Carnegie isn't air-onditioned. We will advise you on where
books may be found and where they may be mis-shelved (e.g.,
ND's are sometimes mis-shelved in NB).
- Locate in-print copies of titles that are missing.
- Search out-of-print dealers for titles that are missing and
no longer in-print.
- Submit order recommendations to Barbara Prior as titles are
found (either in-print or out-of-print); she will order them.
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