Meet the C.C.U Team
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from left: Bill Lehm, Richard Jalowik, Tom Meehan,
Robert Atkinson, Joan Brennan, Nathan Newey Front
from left: Jacky Stavri, Marisa Doyle, Jing Cai,
Hannah Willians, Anne Chesher, Kalyani Goswami, Kylia
Eastwell. Not pictured: Janice Paine, Jessica
Haynes, Clare Paul, Louise Chitre, Helen Dunning |
The
CCU (Central Cataloguing Unit) performs a vital role within
Library Services. The staff of the CCU are responsible
for the acquisition and cataloguing of all items acquired
for the central library sites, and one or two of the outlying
sites.
There
are three different areas of work with which the Unit is
concerned. There is the Acquisitions team, headed by Joan
Brennan. They receive book orders from Subject Librarians
on "yellow forms". They search external databases
for existing bibliographic records for the items which,
when found, are downloaded. Once a record is on the system,
they create an order record for that item, and send
this off to a chosen supplier. When the item has arrived
in the Library they accession it and pass it on for cataloguing.
The
team responsible for cataloging new acquisitions, is headed
by Richard Jalowik. Their aim is to produce timely, high
quality catalogue records adhering to the standards of AACR2
(Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. Rev.) in the
MARC21 format.
Jacky
Stavri deals with the cataloguing of items that are not
new acquisitions. She spends some of her week at the Store
in Wickford "enhancing" old records and creating
new records for items that have been sent there. For the
is based in the CCU and has responsibility for cataloguing
certain categories of material. She also helps out the current
cataloguing team.
Robert
Atkinson has overall responsibility for the management of
the Unit.
Content
by Robert
Atkinson
