Bibload Charge
To manage the purchase, testing, and loading of sets of bibliographic records. Tasks will include:
- Confirm funding source
- Complete record profile and deliver order to acquisitions staff or Business Office, as appropriate
- Upon delivery, review record quality
- Seek input from subject specialists regarding call number or other desirable edits to the bibliographic records
- Customize records to suit subject specialists' needs
- Prepare load specifications, consulting with subject specialists or library heads as appropriate
- Run bibload report in Test/Development catalog, repeating as necessary
- Work with Digital Library Technologies staff to run bibload report in Production catalog
- Inform the library community about availability of the records in the CAT
Bibload Team Members
- Jeff Edmunds (Chair)
- Debora Cheney
- Rebecca Mugridge
- Amy Paster
- Ken Robinson
- Christopher Walker
Email the committee at: ul-bibload@lists.psu.edu
Resources
In Progess Bibloads site
Minutes (Staff Only)
Bibliographic Records Task Force Final Report and Recommendations (Word doc, 69 Kb)
Bibload Working Group Chair Job Description
Bibload Working Group Member Job Description
Procedures for reviewing bibliographic records
