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Policies & Procedures
Status Report: Outsourcing Book Processing at Stanford University
June 28, 1997
Catherine M. Tierney
Associate University Librarian For
Technical Services
ctierney@stanford.edu
CONTENTS
- Where
we are: Domestic vendor
- Where we are: Shelfready + Data
- Where
we are: Diogenes (summer 1996)
- Where
we are: EDI
- Shelfready estimates for Stanford
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Where we are: Human Resource issues
- Where
we are: New System implementation
Where we are: Domestic vendor
- vendor RFP, presentation.
Re-select YPB
- pilot reprofiling and shelfready
in Engineering (March 96)
- re-profiled (had one, now have
13)
- observations after 10 months in
operation
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- 13 profiles -- who's on
first?
- multiple approval slips + one
book = multiple transactions
- Hmmm, are we getting all that
we should?
- "returns" still 3%; refining
profiles
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Where we are: Shelfready + Data
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All approvals and firm orders, June
1996 -
- Sept - May 10,344; 50% CIP
upgrades; 13% Provisional +
- end-processing to spec for 19
locations
- class numbers and Provisional +
records
- standard YBP data transmission
while we wait for EDI (9xx
fields)
-
SUL redirected 300 S.O.'s, but not yet
shelf-ready
- est. 80% cataloged
separately
- 20% need SUL set call
number
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Where we are: Diogenes (summer
1996)
-
21,000 titles (2 years old); 50% match
rate
- substandard acquisitions
records
- inadequate 260 (publisher
field)
- generic titles
- after 6 months, 500 hits on the
10,000
-
initial match - pleasant surprise;
further enhanced:
- better handling of 260 field
- more criteria for generic title
match
- added intelligence for use of
ISBN in matching
- Unicorn extract; Unicorn loading of
results
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Where we are: EDI
-
Value Added Network & conversion
software installed
- ADVANTIS; Premenos
- successful test transmission with
Harrassowitz
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Invoice message specifications w/
Harrassowitz
- just about done
- YBP following the lead; Casalini
also
- local environment ready to parse
incoming message
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Shelfready estimates for Stanford
78,000
monograph titles added per year
25,000
shelfready via YBP (32%)
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53,000 NOT
shelfready (68%)
Bibliographic records for YBP
Shelfready
Of the 25,000
titles to come from YBP
17,500 70%
- either LC full or CIP copy &
class.#
7,500 30% - require Provisional Plus
(cyclable) records and
YBP class.# assignment
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Where we are: Human Resource
issues
- "raising the bar" for skills and
performance
- broadened job responsibilities in
Mono Rec
-
GUI clicking and scrolling
- ergonomic impact
- time impact
- internal workstion management
(Expert Partners)
- change, ambiguity, more
change
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Where we are: New System
implementation
- system migration realities
- multiple factors affect SU
environment
- Year 1 = survived
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Year 2 = accelerate Redesign support
- web-based receipt for
Shelfready
- EDI for major Euro vendors
- automate cycled records (Marcadia
and/or OCLC)
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