Harriett is a paraprofessional cataloger and a former member of CMET, the Catalog Management and Enhancement Team in the library's Catalog Department). Cataloging is now under the Collection Services umbrella.
She is proud to be an SEIU Local 503 union member (Oregon Public Employees Union, Local 085).
Don't miss the annual Department-Formerly-Known-as-Catalog celebration extraordinaire: the Zucchini Festival! The 1998 extravaganza featured Alien Zucchini, while the theme for 1999 was "Y2Z", with the festivities presided over by our then-reigning Mr. Zucchini, Dan Cogan. After the coup d'etat by the Tomatriarch's supporters, this became the Festival-Formerly-Known-as-Zucchini. Join us as we share in some long-ago Festival memories (thanks to the Wayback Machine. Although the Tomatriarch of the Festival bade us a fond adieu in April 2004, our quirky department will undoubtedly devise other interesting festivities which will bear watching......and, of course, there is always the annual Library Staff Association Gonzo Revue, in which Harriett is sometimes a culprit—that is—participant....
Ready for reference: Classification Web, the RDA Toolkit, Cataloger's Desktop on the web, the Library of Congress MARC page, including code lists, the Concise format for Authority Data, and OCLC's Bibliographic Formats and Standards.
Looking for other libraries?
To the Bibliotheque
Nationale in France.
To the British Library.
To the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. home page.
The University of Oregon library system has been an Innovative site since 1989 but will be moving to a new shared ILS powered by Ex Libris in 2014.
To the Library of Congress Home Page
To the National Library of Canada.
To the National Library of Scotland.
To OCLC's home page.
To the University of London Library.
An extremely good resource with something to interest anyone no matter their job description is Library Support Staff.com. The Internet Library for Librarians can be handy. And, if you are a library paraprofessional you may wish to join the Council on Libary/Media Technicians and/or subscribe to the e-journal by and for paraprofessionals, Associates.
I'm interested in languages, and have a cataloging knowledge of western
European languages. I studied French during school and since, and also some German and a
little Spanish. I also dabbled in trying to teach myself modern
Greek, but that will probably have to wait til I retire, along with Latin!
One of the many duties I have as a recataloging specialist is to transfer
books from other collections in
the Library to the Special Collections
area, which includes Rare Books, Manuscripts, and the Oregon Collection, among others.
This is one of my favourite tasks. I love the feel, smell, look, and oh yes, the contents, of old books,
especially the books published in the 1600's and 1700's. Rare
Books houses some of the very "receipt books" that Juliet Campion might have used. In 2006 I attended a rare book cataloging class led by Deborah J. Leslie of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Held on the UCLA campus as part of the California Rare Book School, the class focussed on using Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) to catalog books published primarily between 1500 and 1800. In 2008 I was extremely fortunate to be able to attend the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where I took a week-long class called Introduction to the History of Bookbinding with binding expert Jan Storm van Leeuven.
A few more links:
To the ACRL RBMS: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Section site, and a list of
Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger.
To the ALA Support Staff Interests Round Table
To the ALA
Committee on Cataloging : Description and Access website.
To the Oregon Library Association and the OLA Support Staff Division.
To Oregon's PERS
retirement system home page.
To PEBB, the Public Employees' Benefit Board
To the UO Library
job postings for all levels of staff.
Various U.S. jobsites
To the Pacific Northwest Library Association.