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WRL Technical Services
What We Do
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Technical Services Director - Cela Schmidt

  • Supervises the Technical Services staff.
  • Receives and sorts orders by urgency.
  • Selects vendors for materials purchases.
  • Orders the majority of gift, standing order, and giveaway materials.
  • Routes Adult Services, Youth Services and Bookmobile firm order selections to the Technical Services Specialists for ordering.
  • Maintains the acquisitions database.
  • Prepares and maintains the Technical Services online Acquisitions information sites.
  • Checks invoices for discrepancies in prices, discounts, and titles.
  • Creates vouchers for invoices and routes the vouchers to the Finance Manager.
  • Creates and tracks all fund accounts in acquisitions database.
  • Creates and distributes acquisitions reports as needed.
  • Creates and tracks all commemorative gift fund accounts in the acquisitions database.
  • Works with donors and staff to select commemorative gift titles and/or subject areas.
  • Helps manage the Adopt-a-Book program.
  • Corresponds with donors, sending updated lists of purchased titles as requested.

 

TS Specialist - Susan Kelley

  • Unpacks and receives all standing order serials, including travel and reference materials on the serials database.
  • Creates Orders upon receipt for monograph standing orders.
  • Receives periodicals on the serials database, adjusting publication patterns and predictions, updating source and price records and claiming all missed serial publications.
  • Processes all serial standing order materials and periodicals.
  • Creates and maintains routing lists for professional journals.
  • Checks in and tracks local documents and subscription standing orders.
  • Assists the adult non-fiction cataloger in preparing and maintaining the Technical Services online serials information sites.
  • Unpacks and receives firm orders on the acquisitions database when necessary.

 

TS Specialist - Lisa Ballinger

  • Orders new and replacement library materials, including firm order audio materials, and video materials.
  • Creates bookplates for gift materials.
  • Records gift information in the Giftmaker Pro database.
  • Serves as back-up for processing, binding, and mending library materials.
  • Assists the Technical Services Director prepare and maintain the Technical Services online acquisitions information sites.

 

TS Specialist - Cherri Shideler

  • Unpacks and receives all firm orders on theacquisitions database, checking materials, packing lists, and invoices for accuracy and condition.
  • Mends and processes library materials when necessary.
  • Orders and tracks audio replacements.
  • Updates memorial information in Giftmaker Pro when necessary.
  • Assists the Technical Services Director prepare and maintain the Technical Services online acquisitions information sites.

 

Juvenile Cataloger - Jeanette Navia

  • Catalogs juvenile non-fiction and juvenile audio-video materials.
  • Maintains cataloging database.
  • Authority control cataloger.
  • Prepares and maintains the Technical Services online YS cataloging information sites.
  • Prepares and maintains the Technical Services online cross-training information sites.
  • Supervises staff cataloging cross-training.

 

Adult Cataloger - Sheila Tawney

  • Catalogs adult non-fiction and adult audio-visual materials.
  • Serials cataloger.
  • Prepares and maintains the Technical Services online adult cataloging information sites and online serials information sites.

 

TS Specialist - Jean Marie Taylor

  • Catalogs juvenile fiction, easy books, and YA fiction.
  • Assists the juvenile non-fiction cataloger prepare and maintain the Technical Services online YS cataloging information sites.
  • Serves as a cataloging cross-training instructor when necessary.

 

TS Specialist - Linda Ellis

  • Catalogs adult fiction
  • Processes and mends library materials.
  • Prepares, processes and receives bindery shipments.
  • Assists the adult non-fiction cataloger prepare and maintain the Technical Services online adult cataloging information sites.
  • Serves as the Technical Services volunteer coordinator.

 

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