Collections and Discovery

The Technical Services and Collection Management Unit supports and enhances the educational and research needs of our students, faculty, and staff through effective collection assessment, acquisition, and discovery of quality information resources.  The Unit consists of the following five teams:

  • Continuing Resources and Governments Documents Team.  Responsibilities for this team include government documents; print periodicals and standing orders; binding and repairs; Serials Solutions e-journal MARC record loads.
  • Electronic Resources Team.  Responsibilities include the Serials Solutions knowledgebase and link resolver; proxy server configuration file content; MARC record loads for e-books; troubleshooting electronic databases, e-journals, and e-books.
  • Standards Management and Assessment Team.  Responsibilities for this team include ILS database management and authority control; load profile specialists and liaison to IT; final authority on local cataloging standards; physical processing; maintaining statistics and documentation; training and problem resolution.
  • Metadata and Monographic Resources Team.  Responsibilities include metadata for digitized special collections; monographic cataloging of books, media, and other special formats; ETDs cataloging; collection level workforms.
  • Acquisition and Collection Management Team.  Responsibilities include monographic acquisitions; monographic copy cataloging of books and media; gifts; approvals; bindery operations; PDA/DDA; weeding and relocations; acquisitions collection assessment; collaboration with subject specialists and Information Access Committee.
  • Resource Sharing Team members provide interlibrary loan services, PASCAL Delivers, and Scan & Deliver for faculty, staff, and students. Team members process requests from our users to borrow books, articles, and materials from other libraries and work to fulfill requests from other libraries to borrow materials from Clemson.
  • Digitization
  • Special Collections

Best Practices for Overlaying

Monday, May 16th, 2022
- Please click the link below for the webinar recording and presentation slides… https://pascalsc.libguides.com/c.php?g=1165344&p=8507243  

Alma – Importing MARCIVE Records into Alma

Friday, March 18th, 2022
- Each month we receive an email outlining that we have available MARC Records from MARCIVE. Here’s what that email looks like:                         When we receive that email, we can obtain our MARC records by clicking on this highlighted link (note: the link changes EACH […]

Alma -Spine Labeling Steps – Using SpineOMatic

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
- Materials to be labeled can be found on two trucks outside the door of the Processing Area. Truck labeled In Process is for materials new to the Libraries. For these, we do Quality Control and Spine Labeling. Truck labeled In Transit is for relabels and GOBI mistakes. Acquisitions has done all the quality control work; […]

Content notes – MULTIVOLUME CONTENTS EXAMPLES

Friday, September 10th, 2021
- If the number of physical volumes differs from the number of bibliographic volumes or if edition statements, dates etc. are needed, included in parentheses at end of title or statement of responsibility (work is The Cambridge ancient history, .b11906212): 505 1#  v. 1, pt. 1. Prolegomena and prehistory / edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, […]

Content notes – Special situation: information not coming from titles of chapters

Friday, September 10th, 2021
- This is an alternate approach that can be used depending on how the materials are reported in the book and/or wishes of reference librarian. Use 520 2# (2 = Scope and content) Format the note so that important titles, entities, or events are keyword searchable. 520 2# Case histories of the following emergency evacuations and […]