Technical Services Program Review
Cataloging First Time In

Contents:

Group membership, definition and scope of work, and type of materials studied
"First time" cataloging processes identified
First time cataloging (PromptCat) workflow in the Acquisitions Department
First time cataloging workflow in the Cataloging Workflow
Recording statistics of materials catalogued in the Cataloging Department
Measurements of Cataloging Department work load
Results of cataloging survey
Cataloging work which is done slowly or not being done
Impediments to increasing cataloging productivity
Appendices:

• Summary of "parking lot ideas"
• Glossary of cataloging terms
• Cataloging Department Organizational Chart.
  The work of the Serials Cataloging Unit does not fall in the scope of this report.

• Acquisitions PromptCat processing
• Acquisitions to rapid cataloging
• Rapid Cataloging Unit cataloging process
• Monographs Unit queues and cataloging process
• Monographs Unit authority work
• Monographs Unit replacing OCLC master
• Monographs Unit bibliographic file maintenance
• Sort for End Processing Unit
• Non-Gift Hebrew/Yiddish workflow
• Music scores and sound recordings
• Audiovisual and spoken work audio
• Cataloging juvenile materials
• CJK materials flowchart
• Cataloging electronic monographs
• Cataloging special collections in McKeldin
• Authority Control Unit
• Rapid Cataloging Unit: Cataloging materials for the Library of American Broadcasting Association and the Maurer Library
• Rapid Cataloging Unit: Cataloging materials for UMUC
• Rapid Cataloging Unit: Cataloging masters' theses
• Monographs Cataloging Unit: Doctoral theses workflow
• Preservation photocopies flowchart

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