Associate University Librarian for Technical Services, May, 2000-present. Responsible for the Cataloging department, Acquisitions department, Current Periodicals, Bindery, and Serials. Responsible for management of gifts policies and the processing of gifts received. Also, responsible for collection development activities.
Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development. The University of Texas at El Paso, June, 1989-April, 2000. Responsible for the administration and coordination of the development of the Library's general and special collections. Coordinates and evaluates the collection development activity carried out by the 16 library subject specialists. Develops and monitors the Library's materials budget of $1.7 million. Serves as a member of the Library's administrative team and is involved in the planning, policy writing and budgeting activities of the University Library. Advises the University Librarian on matters related to developing and acquiring Library collections.
Accomplishments include:
Interim Head of Technical Services December, 1999-2000
1. Plan for moving from shelf list cards to III
Interim Chair Acquisitions Dept. July, 1997-
1. III implementation
2. Electronic invoicing
Review of existing policy and creation of both subject and general collection policy statements
Chair of the Serials Evaluation Team 1995-
Local contact for the MLIS extension program with the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science 1993-2000.
Assumed the duties of Head of Administrative Services in 1991 and again in 1992 while the position was vacant. This position is responsible for the library building, storage facility and administrative budget. Works with the university departments of human resources, facility services, purchasing, computer center, and finance to manage the daily needs of the library and its staff.
Chair of the acquisitions automation committee (1989-90) Assisted in changing workflow to be more compatible with the Notis Acquisitions Subsystem
Produced a manual for local e-mail and Bitnet training after the department heads and librarians received addresses. Responsible for hands-on training for the new users. Several "students" have subscribed to electronic bulletin boards and use e-mail regularly.
Head of Acquisitions Department 1986-1989. Texas Tech University Libraries. Texas Tech University has an enrollment of 23,400 students and offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in science, social science and humanities. The materials budget is $1.7 million. Responsible for training and evaluating a staff of 1 librarian and 11 library assistants and student assistants.
Accomplishments include:
Reorganization of the department and creation of management positions under the Head of Acquisitions
Staff involvement in organization, workflow, hiring and evaluation
Texas Tech University Libraries was the Project Directing Agency for the West Texas Union List Project, funded by a LSCA III grant. Union list holdings were created for 3 libraries
August 1, 1988- Responsible for Current Periodicals and Microforms (CP/M). CP/M is a public service area housing current issues of journals and magazines, serials in microformats and all other non-book materials. The area also houses a PC lab and a viewing area for tapes. Two library assistants and student assistants staff the area.
Assistant Head Acquisitions Department 1979-1986, Texas Tech University Libraries. Duties include responsibility for the Serials Unit and assisting the Department Head with the Monographs Unit. The Department consisted of four librarians, fourteen library assistants, and fifteen student assistants. The library materials budget was 1 million of which 60% was serials.
Accomplishments include:
Coordination of the use of three automated systems: 1. Campus computer for online access to our Serials Holdings List 2. Online access to our largest subscription vendor for ordering and claiming 3. Connection to the OCLC Serials Control Subsystem.
Acquisitions Librarian--Serial Section 1975-1979, Texas Tech University Libraries. Responsible for all Serial Records (10,000 total titles) including ordering, receiving, paying, and cataloging. Serials were received through subscriptions, memberships, gifts, exchanges, standing orders, and approval orders. In 1976, planned and implemented the process of using the OCLC Serials Subsystem for periodical check-in records. Promoted to Assistant Chair.
Accomplishments include:
Retrospective conversion of serial records and holdings to OCLC and the OCLC Serials Control Subsystem.
Periodicals Librarian 1974-1975, Texas Tech University Libraries. Responsibilities included supervision of the Library Assistants (who updated the periodical records), periodical ordering, and supervision of the Bindery Clerk. In addition, continued duties in Science Reference.
Assistant Periodicals Librarian 1971-1974, Texas Tech University Libraries. The collection contained 7500 periodical titles. Also responsible for 15 Student Assistants. Served on the Science Reference Desk and provided public service for the Periodicals Collection including nights and weekends.
Assistant Acquisitions Librarian 1969-1971, University of Arizona Medical Center Library. Responsible for receiving and claiming periodicals. The collection contained 2400 titles.