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9.3.2020
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Bibliographer Consortial Groups (BCG). https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/bibliographers
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English and American Literature Collection Development in a Team
Environment
Traditionally, the day-to-day responsibilities of a bibliographer for a
subject area have been vested in and carried out by individuals who work
independently of other subject bibliographers in the Library. Although most
bibliographers are part of a Collection Development Department, the
consultation that takes place concerning subject focus occurs with faculty and
graduate students within academic departments. In addition, the typical
responsibilities of the bibliographer vary by the size and scope of the Library
where they work. This article attempts to describe the changes in collecting
that have occurred at the University of California, Irvine, as part of a
recently completed Organizational Review and Design Project (quickly
abbreviated to OR&DP by all Library staff), and focuses in particular on
the impact this has had on the area of collecting materials in English and
American Literature. Prior to the changes brought about by OR&DP, the
organization of Collection Development at UCI followed a departmental model,
although there was not, nor is there now, a Collection Development department
as part of the UCI's organizational chart. The Assistant University Librarian for
Collections was and is a member of the Library's administrative department and
also served as the department head for Collections with responsibility for the
budget and overall management of collections-related activities. Although the
numbers varied slightly over the years, a core group of approximately 25 individuals with
collection development responsibilities were part of the Bibliographers Group
which met monthly. During these meetings, information concerning the status of
budget negotiations and decisions was distributed, projects were described and
assigned, and information of interest to those involved in Collection
Development was disseminated. At UCI, almost all bibliographers have split
assignments. This was true prior to OR&DP and is still true after
reorganization. The most typical model is that of the Reference
Librarian/Bibliographer. This means that the librarian is a member of the
former Reference, now Research and Instruction, Department, and also has
responsibility for a subject area.
My position falls into this category. I am a member of the Main Library
(Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) Research and Instruction Department and
I am the bibliographer for English, Comparative Literature and Classics. Due to
the departure of a colleague, I recently became the Main Library General
Reference bibliographer in addition to my other duties.
Other models at UCI are Bibliographer/Member of a Library Department other
than Research and Instruction, such as Special Collections or Women's Studies,
or Bibliographer/Responsible for a Library function such as Publications or
Preservation. There are a few librarians in the Research and Instruction
Departments who do not have bibliographer responsibilities and only two
full-time bibliographers with specialized areas of responsibility such as the
East Asian collection or the Southeast Asian Archive.
As a bibliographer, my primary responsibilities are to select materials in
my subject areas, to perform liaison services for the English and Comparative
Literature Department (35 faculty and 200 graduate students) and the Classics
Department (6 faculty and 10 graduate students), and to provide specialized
bibliographic instruction and reference services upon faculty request. Again,
OR&DP has not changed this aspect of my position.
For selecting materials, I depend primarily upon approval plans. I preview
approximately 40-60 titles per week in hard copy and select another 10-20/week
from form selections. I am more aggressive in placing firm orders for fiction
and poetry than in other areas, as we have steadily whittled away at our budget
in recent years and my selection in this area must be quite targeted to those
materials which are truly of local interest. UCI has a highly ranked creative
writing program, and it is important to provide a range of materials which
allow students and faculty to keep up with new developments in this area.
Declining budgets and shifts in faculty's research interests have changed my
selecting patterns, but the OR&DP has not.
One change that has occurred in collection development at UCI which is not
result of OR&DP is the manner in which the collections budget is
structured. Over the last three years, we have created individual budgets
covering monographs (including materials received through approval plans and
those firm ordered), continuations and serials for each bibliographer. Previously,
each bibliographer had a small fund to use for firm ordering retrospective
materials; all other expenditures, such as books received on approval and
serials were covered by library-wide funds.
Before I describe the changes brought about by OR&DP and the new
collections budget structure, I will describe the impetus for it. There were
three primary factors. The University Librarian, Joanne Euster and the
Assistant University Librarian for Collections, Judith Paquette were both new
to their jobs. In addition, the new Science Library on campus was opened. The
Science Library consolidated the collections of three small branch libraries
(Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Bio-Medical) as well as science
collections which had formerly been housed in the Main Library. The opening of
the new building shifted staff as well as collections.
The Organizational Review and Design Project brought about major changes in
the organization of Collection Development. The scope of the Assistant
University Librarian for Collection's responsibility was extended to include
Access Services (Circulation and Interlibrary Loan which was renamed Document
Access and Delivery) which had formerly been a part of Public Service. The Bibliographers Group
remained, but individuals were organized into smaller groups according to
subject responsibilities. These smaller groups function as teams and are know
as "Pods" in our organization. There are three pods; the Arts and
Humanities Pod (AH's), the Social Science Pod (SS's) and the Engineering,
Medicine and Science Pod (EMS's). Each Pod has a team leader who by virtue of
that position is a member of the Collections Coordinating Council which is made
up of the three Pod leaders and the Assistant University Librarian for
Collections and Access. The Collections Coordinating Council meets weekly for
two hours, each Pod meets once every two weeks for two hours, and the
Bibliographer's Group meets once every six weeks for two hours. The position of
Pod leader is rotating; the current Pod leaders are at the end of their two
year term and new leaders will soon be selected. In tandem with this, we used
the capabilities of our local Innovative Interfaces system to code and track
materials expenditures by bibliographers.
As the first Pod leader for Arts and Humanities I feel that I have a unique
perspective on how becoming a member of a collection development team has
affected my behavior as a bibliographer. The Arts and Humanities Pod has nine
members which is, by the way, rather large for a "work team"
according to the current management literature. Their positions are the
English, Comparative Literature, Classics and Main Library General Reference
Bibliographer (me), the Fine Arts Librarian, the Women's Studies Librarian
(also a member of the Social Sciences Pod), the History and Film Studies
Librarian, the German Language and Literature Bibliographer, the Spanish and
Portuguese Librarian, the East Asian Librarian, and the Critical Theory, French
and Italian, and Philosophy Bibliographer. In addition, the Government
Publications Librarian responsible for microforms is a member of our group.
As part of the OR&DP, and the decision to use the team concept as an
organizing principle, each member of the library staff participated in team
training sessions led by an outside consultant. This team training led to a
better understanding of how to work more efficiently and effectively in groups.
Rather than using the Bibliographers
Group meetings as discussion forum to voice opinions about issues with
no mechanism for implementing projects or following up on ideas, the
Collections Coordinating Council has worked very hard to use it as a forum to
set priorities and organize projects.
If projects are library-wide, such as distribution of funds to individual
bibliographers or fund coding of serials titles, information dissemination
occurs in the Bibliographers
Group and much of the actual work is done in the Pods or by individual
bibliographers as before, depending on the nature of the project.
If there are projects which affect one Pod and not the others, most of the
work of organizing the project occurs at the Pod level with some reporting on
progress through the Bibliographers
Group. The move to the Science Library was an example of this as it
affected primarily the Science bibliographers. Pods have the option of meeting
and working together on projects if it makes sense to do so. The Main Library
is due for renovation in 1996. The Social Sciences Pod and the Arts and
Humanities Pod have already begun working on a number of collections-related
activities having to do with the renovation.
As you can see, organizing into teams has made planning and implementing
projects more efficient and effective. The groups working on projects are
smaller and more focussed. It may not be obvious from individual projects, but
overall the management of UCI's collection will benefit as small work groups
take on responsibility for completing specific tasks. Better collection
management allows better service to all the Library's users.
In addition to better project management, what has been the benefit of the
team environment for English and American literature specifically? The major
benefit is a mechanism for communicating the needs and interests of academic
programs to others whose programs may overlap with my own. Because there is
more individual control over the collections budget than in the past, the Arts
and Humanities Pod created an Arts and Humanities General Fund which is used to
purchase expensive items such as sets or media which do not fall neatly into
one discipline or another. In addition to acquiring the item, the Pod members
benefit by the discussion and explanation as to why this material is requested
and what purpose it serves.
Perhaps it is the academic buzz word of the nineties or maybe it merely
reflects reality, but UCI seems to have preponderance of interdisciplinary
programs and areas of research. Meeting with a group of humanities
bibliographers on a regular basis allows for a regular exchange of information
on developments such as new faculty interests or new activity in areas which
impact other bibliographers. It also facilitates decision-making about the
acquisition of individual items.
I realize that many of the activities described above are routine to
bibliographers at some institutions, but want to remind my readers that at UCI
prior to OR&DP they were only engaged in sporadically or on an ad hoc basis
due to the loose structure of the Collection Development function.
My individual assessment of collection development in a team environment is
that it not changed what I do, but it has changed how I do it. I feel that the
process of selecting materials in the area of English and Comparative
Literature particularly has become more consultative because I can now depend
on meeting with a peer group of like-minded individuals on a regular basis.
Before the creation of the Arts and Humanities Pod, the only peer group
relationship I felt I had was with the other English and American Literature
Bibliographers I met at the American Library Association Conferences. Although
the other members of the AH's may not do exactly what I do, they are much more
accessible and attuned to the needs of the UCI community than my ALA
colleagues!
Catherine Palmer, Humanities Librarian
University of California, Irvine
cpalmer@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
cpalmer@uci.edu
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"Bibliographer
group". https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bibliographer+group%22.&oq=%22Bibliographer+group%22.&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.762j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Google: "Bibliographers
forums". Sonuç yok
Google: "Bibliographer
forums". Sonuç yok
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"Bibliographer
forum". https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALeKk0028UKq6AZxZFvsvaVqRlp7i7eDGg%3A1583786322580&ei=UqlmXpCPI7S81fAPkqKJiAQ&q=%22Bibliographer+forum%22&oq=%22Bibliographer+forum%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...28519.28519..28802...1.0..0.353.674.0j2j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......33i160.M7I2oz_WT2I&ved=0ahUKEwiQgKHpn47oAhU0XhUIHRJRAkEQ4dUDCAs&uact=5
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Google: "Bibliographer’s Group"
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Google: "Bibliographer’s Group"
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Bibliographer Group Chairs and Liaisons
For current
chair and membership information, please view the Common
Knowledge Groups website.
Summary Table of Bibliographer Groups Transitioning to Common Knowledge
Groups (CKGs)
This table
is provided for historical reference.
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Discipline
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Previous Bibliographer Group Chair
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Common Knowledge Group (CKG)
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African
Studies
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Ruby
Bell-Gam
rbellgam@library.ucla.edu |
African
Studies
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Art and
Architecture
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Emilee
Mathews
emilee.mathews@uci.edu |
Art &
Architecture
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British/U.S.History
and Womens Studies
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Becky
Imamoto
rimamoto@uci.edu |
British/U.S.History
and Gender Studies
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Business
and Economics
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Michael
Oppenheim
moppenhe@library.ucla.edu |
Social
Sciences
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East Asian
Studies
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Shi Deng
sdeng@ucsd.edu |
East Asian
Studies
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Education
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Christina
Cicchetti
christina.cicchetti@ucr.edu |
Education
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English
and American Literature
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Jane
Faulkner
faulkner@library.ucsb.edu |
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Ethnic
Studies
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Dan Tsang
dtsang@uci.edu |
Ethnic
Studies
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European
History, Languages and Literature
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Adam
Siegel
apsiegel@ucdavis.edu |
European
History, Languages and Literature
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Geography/Maps/GIS
(with Stanford)
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Mike Smith
mls003@library.ucsd.edu |
Maps &
Geospacial Data
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Government
Information
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Lucia
Orlando
luciao@ucsc.eduKelly Smith k5smith@ucsd.edu |
Government
Information Libraries (GILS)
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Health
& Life Sciences
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Bethany
Harris
beharris@ucsd.edu |
Health
& Life Sciences
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Latin
American Studies (Calafia)
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Myra Appel
mlappel@lib.ucdavis.edu |
CALAFIA
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Linguistics
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Adam
Siegel
apsiegel@ucdavis.edu |
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Middle
East
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Shayee
Khanaka
skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu |
Middle
East Studies
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Music
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Scott
Stone
stonesm@uci.edu |
Music
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News
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Dan Tsang
dtsang@uci.edu |
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Performing
Arts (Dance, Film, Theatre)
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Diana King
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Performing
Arts and Media Studies
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Philosophy
& Religious Studies
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Gary
Colmenar
colmenar@library.ucsb.edu |
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Physical
Sciences and Engineering
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Deborah
Kegel
dkegel@ucsd.edu |
Physical
Sciences & Engineering (PSE)
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Political
Science
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Joseph Yue
josephyue@library.ucla.edu |
Social
Sciences
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Psychology
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Michael
Yonezawa
michael.yonezawa@ucr.edu |
Social
Sciences
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Reference
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David
Michalski
michalski@ucdavis.edu |
Reference
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Social
Science Data
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Libbie
Stephenson
libbie@ucla.edu |
Social
Sciences
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Sociology
& Anthropology
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Annette
Marines
amarines@ucsc.edu |
Social
Sciences
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