Outside In to Inside Out - Caltech Best Practices

Outside-in to inside-out
Changing from cataloging inventory to scholarly metadata management

2007-2011
8.5 FTE to 6.5 FTE – 65% staff, 35% pro to 15% staff, 85% pro
Automate with approval plan, PromptCat, batch processing
Items cataloged >21,198 despite heavy weeding
Document policies and procedures – reduce ad-hoc decisions & time spent finding info or figuring out how to do things
Improved withdrawal = better holdings quality & maintenance
Regularize database maintenance and quality control
Culture shift: improve communication with meetings & wiki, decrease number of request channels

To infinity and beyond!
Citation services
Theses work flow
Identity management
NACO certification
Linked data project(s)
ORCID
LOD-LAM
New programmer = new development work
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“It may be time to unbundle the inventory function from the human knowledge function" to fulfill library mission”-Karen Coyle
laura@library.caltech.edu
http://library.caltech.edu/laura

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