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Architecture Library Staff Group

Prelaunch Library Projects
20 February 2004

Current Projects

  1. Purchase duplicate Architecture titles: required by Planning
    Project Manager: Margaret Aquan-Yuen

    • Margaret prepares a list of architecture titles of interest
    • First priority: architecture items on course reserves
    • Second priority: architecture items received on TRELLIS (as opposed to Geac)
    • Items for which there are duplicate copies are removed from list
    • Final list is given to Debbie Tytko for searching in early February
    • FES provides Library with $12,000 to purchase items prior to launch
    • Several online locations for this purpose were created by Betty Graf in late January.
    • Subsequent funding following launch is at FES’s discretion
    • LAU sets up a reporting fund under the Planning book fund
    • Purchased monographs duplicates are catalogued and later transferred to Cambridge; purchased duplicate periodicals remain in Waterloo
    • Debbie tracks staff costs involved (searching, ordering)
    • Cost estimate: $12,000 (year 1) plus staff costs

  2. Insert electronic security strips into Porter books and periodicals
    Project Manager: Mark Spencer, reporting to Sharon Lamont

    • Cataloguing staff began project with NA1 books on Dec 5; work is being continued by User Services staff at the approx rate of an hour a day, 3 days a week.
    • 20,000 B-2 strips, 2,000 B-1 strips, and 1 box of DAC-1 strips were ordered by Richard for this project
    • Mark Spencer is managing the stripping project and reporting on a regular basis to Sharon and Melanie Watkins; he ensures that casual staff use a blue marker to draw a line across the rear top edge of each stripped item
    • Cost estimate: $9,000 (strips plus staff costs)

  3. Catalogue Architecture’s BArch papers submitted 1997 to present
    Project Manager: Bethlyn Peters, reporting to Betty Graf

    • Currently held by School of Architecture, in room 179, ES 2
    • 159 binders plus 3 CDs, as of June 2002
    • Michele will arrange for these papers to be shipped to Cataloguing when notified by Betty to do so.
    • Betty needs an online location in order to proceed with cataloguing; the TRELLIS New Participant document must be completed before an online location for BArch papers can be created
    • BArch papers will be located in rare book consulting area; they will not circulate; MArch theses will reside on shelves near the Information Desk
    • Cost estimate: $636 (159 titles @ $4.00 each: no subject analysis)

  4. Prepare materials (including Dendy collection) in Special Collections for relocation
    Project Managers: Ruth Lamb and Susan Bellingham

    • Preparations are in accordance with draft schedule (Nov 2003)
    • Generate a list of architecture titles in Special Collections
    • Create book dummies for items that will be transferred
    • Special Collections staff complete cataloguing of Dendy by end April
    • Major corrections to some bibliographic records; currently working on Dendy records
    • Co-op student (see also projects 8 and 14) changes online location in item and holdings records during spring/summer
    • Cataloguing Dept will LC classify and spine-label items for Cambridge reference collection; Michele will review this material in February
    • Cost estimate: $700 (dummies) plus $3,000 (1/3 of Co-op salary)

  5. Pull and process special materials in UMD and Porter for relocation
    Project Managers: Ruth Lamb and Susan Bellingham

    • Lists of these materials have been generated
    • Items charged out in Jan/Feb will be recalled
    • Porter items have been pulled and are now in Special Collections area
    • Michele will pull material from UMD and send to Special Collections for processing during winter term
    • Cost estimate: $0

  6. Appraise rare and special materials being relocated
    Project Managers: Ruth Lamb and Susan Bellingham

    • Appraisal required by our insurer, according to David Peters
    • Insurer requires total value of items plus a shelf list
    • Substantial shelf list is needed; Ruth will request this list and provide to the appraiser
    • Consider using Hugh Anson Cartwright as appraiser
    • Best time for appraisal is late spring or during summer
    • Susan B will arrange the appraisal
    • Cost estimate: $1,000-$2,000

  7. Identify architecture titles in Porter/UMD/Annex for relocation
    Project Manager: Michele Laing

    • Michele and Margaret have requested lists for their respective areas and are selecting titles based on need and fund name
    • Michele and Margaret will work together to make transfer decisions for items with no recorded fund
    • Alex Lamont is currently working with several lists of NA titles in order to identify fund (Feb)
    • Selection work will be completed by May 1
    • Michele needs an accurate item list
    • Essential to keep other liaison librarians informed of transfer decisions; this will be accomplished at an ISR meeting in March
    • Cost estimate: $0

  8. Change locations for books, serials, & theses in Porter/UMD/Annex
    Project Manager: Betty Graf

    • Betty prepares a Co-op job description for work that relates to location changes and spine labelling
    • Betty hires a Co-op student (see also projects 4 and 14) for spring term; work monitored by Ingrid Pinos
    • Recall term-loan items signed out and due May 12. How many items are currently signed out after May 12? Renew items in grad student offices?
    • Co-op student locates material in the stacks by call number, scans each item to be transferred in order to create a file, indicates on list if there are other copies/volumes that are NOT being moved to Cambridge, indicates on list if a new spine label is required or just a location label, and types spine label
    • Delay changing online location until time of move
    • Co-op student attaches new spine labels once library materials are on-shelf in Cambridge (timing of this depends on workflow)
    • Random sampling to ensure that location changes are correct
    • Cost estimate: spine label material plus $3,000 (1/3 of Co-op salary)

  9. Pull library materials from shelves in Porter/UMD/Annex, and pack
    Project Managers: Eric Boyd and Sharon Lamont

    • Use project management approach for this project
    • Library staff pull items from shelves
    • Library staff and/or movers pack/box books for move in late August or early September
    • Hire a mover (e.g., Metro Toronto Movers, Campbell) or Central Stores for the move
    • Cost estimate: Moving Co plus staff costs

  10. Pull library materials from shelves in Special Collections, and pack
    Project Managers: Ruth Lamb and Susan Bellingham

    • Preparations are in accordance with draft schedule (Nov 2003)
    • Special Collections staff will pull Cambridge library materials from DLRBR shelves as dummies are prepared to replace them
    • Cambridge items will be shelved separately, in call number order
    • Movers will pack these materials; Susan B prefers to hire Campbell Movers
    • Cost estimate:

  11. Implement an Annex project
    Incorporate this project into projects 2, 7, 8, 9?

    • All UW-owned architecture titles in Annex will be transferred
    • Identify architecture titles in Annex for relocation; there are approximately 3,000-4,000 such items in the Annex, according to a report prepared in January by Ann Naese
    • Michele is having a difficult time getting a complete list of items purchased by architecture because often there is no fund
    • Need use statistics and damage report for these items
    • Need a “pull” list with storage codes
    • For items with no fund code, Michele will consult with Margaret
    • Damaged items may be discarded
    • How will binding/repairing be handled?
    • Pack and move items to Cambridge
    • Cost estimate:

  12. Unpack library materials in Cambridge
    Project Managers (rare/special): Ruth Lamb and Susan Bellingham
    Project Manager (regular material): Michele?

    • For DLRBR materials, Special Collections staff oversee the unpacking and assist in shelving
    • For other materials, casual staff do the unpacking and shelving
    • Cost estimate:

  13. Complete the documentation for incorporating New TRELLIS participants into the TRELLIS Library System
    Project Manager: Richard Pinnell

    • http://staff.tug-libraries.on.ca/trellis/TriUniversity-Affiliated.html
    • See also: Inventory of Circulation Issues for New Libraries joining TRELLIS (Susan Lamont)
    • Richard is project manager: document submitted to Steering Comm
    • Architecture Library will lend to/from UG and WLU via TUGbars and to/from UW main campus via UW @ UW
    • Cost estimate: $0

  14. Create Architecture Library webpages
    Project Manager: Michele Laing

    • Co-op student (see also projects 4 and 8) or Library School student does web work during spring under Michele’s direction
    • Michele writes a job description for this task
    • Cost estimate: $3,000 (1/3 of Co-op salary)

  15. Develop Branch computing plan in collaboration with MAD
    Project Manager: Linda Teather?

    • Prof Brent Hall announced in late January that there will be no documented computing plan developed by MAD/IST
    • Linda, Carl Nagel, Richard, and Michele met on 29 January to discuss system requirements for the Branch in Cambridge; a final draft of their report was submitted to Mark Haslett on 5 February
    • There was further discussion by Carl, Linda and Michele on 13 Feb to discuss issues raised by Brent Hall’s response
    • Issues to be resolved include: computing environment (FES vs Library), computing support (hardware and software) public printing, equipment purchases, network authentication, ongoing communication with MAD
    • Cost estimate: $0

Completed Projects

  1. Rebind damaged/worn architecture books and periodicals in Porter
    Project Manager: Ann Naese, reporting to Sharon Lamont

    • Project competed by Ann Naese working with other User Services staff during fall 2003
    • Project costs capped at $3,000
    • Final cost: $2,989

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Architecture Task Group
rhpinnel@uwaterloo.ca
July 29, 2005