This is always a busy time for Collections with a flurry of invoicing, receiving & cataloguing as the end of the financial year approaches. There is also a lot of IR work coming through at the moment. It is also a busy time for theses. This year the Registry is (finally!) enforcing the “no thesis, no graduation” policy so our receipting processes need to be particularly slick.

Additionally, we are involved in work arising out of the EL/PSL Merger, the Central Library Reorganisation Project and the Offsite Storage Project.

Peter Hosking is working on the serials that were moved from EL to the Basement updating the location and collection. In a number of cases there are split holdings (i.e. older volumes were put into storage and later volumes kept in EL) so this work can only be done manually. There are also a number of splits occurring with the Offsite Storage Project, and after the Crown files have been processed by Library IT we will need to cleanup duplicate serial copies. A workflow will also need to be devised for returning monographs requested from Crown to the shelves. There are also serials that are moving from Central to the Warehouse over the summer so the records will have to be updated (more splits). We are also dealing with ongoing weeding of serials throughout all the libraries. The Central Team is dealing with Reference Collection transfers.

There is a residue of Dewey material that has had recent use remaining to be reclassified. Weeding and cataloguing of Warehouse material continues.

We are concluding a project providing data for the revaluing of the current collection for insurance purposes.

The CONZULAC contract for the supply of US and UK monographs for the next three years is also being finalised.

We have staff involved in the Summon implementation project.

We are devising and implementing new workflows for e-books and will shortly be setting up a group to look at the access implications for users.

We have just been offered a significant donation of literature.

We intend having a session to plan for 2010 and will need to do some preparatory work for some of our 2010 projects, using Summer Max people, if possible.