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2CUL TSI Monograph Ordering Working Group

Summarize staffing and expertise at Columbia and Cornell, including a comparison of current job assignments.

Investigation: Members of the Working Group shared respective inventories of ordering staff and expertise and discussed details of staffing, expertise and job assignments in phone conversations and a face-to-face meeting.  Please see

Columbia has 4 FTE (embed) in the Order and Receiving Unit (OAR) who place firm orders and receive firm ordered material.  One FTE in the OAR Unit is assigned 35% cataloging duties.  OAR staff possess language skills at a sufficient enough level to place orders, correspond with international vendors, and catalog some firm ordered material upon receipt.  The OAR Unit does not firm order Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Tibetan (CJKT) material as the processing of material in CJKT languages occurs in the technical services department at C.V. Starr East Asian Library.   At  At Cornell, all ordering staff (embed) also receive some material but not all staff who perform receiving also perform the ordering function. Add more???

Summarize reporting and decision-making structures at Columbia and Cornell.

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