Serials management: integration and enhancement through reorganization

70% and Climbing: E-Resources, Books, and Library Restructuring

“…There is no shortage of articles written on reorganization of technical services. The reasons for reorganization are staffing and budget shortages (Wiles-Young, McNally, and Anemaet 1998;Dunham and Davis 2008;Wells 2004) and e-resource workload coordination to streamline practices, increase efficiency (Clendenning, Duggan, and Smith 2010;King, Metcalf, and Larkin 2007) and remove silos (Goldberg, Horvath, and Neagle 2001). Issues regarding communication, training, staff morale, and learning to do more with less are also common themes in reorganization literature (King, Metcalf, and Larkin 2007;Wells 2004).…”

Use of teams in technical services in academic libraries

“…McLaren (2006) described in detail why Technical Services decided to dismantle teams and reorganized into a new division/department hierarchical model in 2005 and listed some opinions voiced by Technical Services personnel regarding the positive and negative aspects of their team experiences. Goldberg et al (2001) reported that, with the reorganization at University of Louisville in the 1990s, a new team structure was formed to facilitate the cooperative efforts between technical services and public services in serials management. "The effective use of the OPAC for serials information and the development of the serials database reflect the University of Louisville Libraries' vision of how two traditionally isolated wings of periodicals management could and should work together.…”