JKM Library: LIBRARY TECHNICAL SERVICES: Library Tech Services

	: 2024-2025 Hours

Chatham University Jennie King Mellon Library Technical Services Department

Ground Floor - Public Shelving

Collection Totals - as of 7/1/24: 92,151 (titles)

Added July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
New purchases:			4
Gifts:			82
Student publications:			191
Items/Vols. held June 30, 2023*	Titles held June 30, 2023*	Vols. Added FY23-24	Titles added FY23-24	Volumes withdrawn FY23-24	Titles withdrawn FY23-24	Total items/vols. as of 7/1/24	Net Total Titles as of 7/1/24
134,769	98,539	296	277	28,223	6,665	106,842	92,151

all accessible owned materials as of 7/1/24	Titles
	2023-2024	(last year)
	92,151	98,539
Total Books	81,145	87,867
Circulating Stacks	80,166	85,913
Owned eBooks	86	86
Children's	656	1,079
Reference	237	789
Print Serials Current	47	58
Bound	272	287
Microform	11	29
Total Media	2,310	2,238
DVDs	1,199	1,124
Blu-ray	19	19
CDs	1,092	1,095
Student Publications	8,372	8,142

Acquisitions
- Purchases
  - 2023-24: 4 (2022-23: 177)
- Gifts
  - 2023-24: 82 (2022-23: 148)
Print Serials Use
- 2023-24: 53 (2022-23: 182)
Student Publications Use
- Print Requests
  - 2023-24: 5 (2022-23: 16)
- Electronic Access
  - 2023-24:3,251 (2022-23: 2,328)
Reference
- Transferred to stacks
  - 2023-24: 3 (2022-23: 14; 2021-22: 258)
- Deselected (donated, discarded)
  - 2023-24:21 (2022-23:53; 2021-22: 93)
Deselections
- Serials
  - Current Print removed
    - 2023-24: 11 titles unsubscribed
  - Bound Serials removed
    - 2020-21: 315 titles (9,817 items/vols)
  - Microform items removed
    - 2022-23: 7 titles (7,637 items/film/fiche)
    - 2020-21: 18 titles (19,632 items/film/fiche)
- Tactile Weeding (damaged books with zero use)
  - 2024-25: __(estimated 5-10K)__
  - 2023-24: 7,607 titles
- Damaged Books With Use
Repairs (in-demand/low-supply books requiring rebinding and/or >50% rebuild)
- 2023-24: 130 (estimated savings: $13,478)
- 2022-23: 81 (est.sav.=$8,398)
- 2021-22: 86 (es=$8,916)
Microcuts: 86 (over 15K worth of books in rev for SC)

The Technical Services department of the Jennie King Mellon Library supports the mission of Chatham University by assuming primary responsibility for the organization of materials in the library’s collection and catalog. The Technical Services department is committed to providing quality service to the faculty, staff and students that use the JKM Library catalog. This is accomplished by creating, maintaining and making available to the University library catalog users quality bibliographic holdings and authority records according to established local and national standards in a timely manner. This department also strives to build and maintain a cohesive, current, and balanced library collection that supports the curriculum and educational mission of Chatham University. We are responsible for the ordering and receiving of library materials and for maintaining the relevancy of the collection.

We also specialize in database and web development involving advanced coding and scripts, visual and interactive data reports, legacy media file conversions, and idiosyncratic and creative book restoration.

HoTS Job Desc (2017)

Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians (ALA, revised 2023)

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