CATALOG MANAGEMENT

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Advise selectors on the acquisition of metadata records. Evaluate records for conformance to descriptive and structural metadata standards. Provide information on records available from alternate sources, if any.

• Communicate with selectors and vendors to coordinate the acquisition of records.

• For records provided free of charge without customizations:

• Edit records and add records to Orbis in Voyager.

• For records provided as a service:

• Establish a profile for the record set: editing specifications, preferred delivery method, frequency of loads, etc.
• With Production Systems, coordinate hand-off of records for authority control processing and loading to Orbis.
• Evaluate metadata records loaded in testing against the specification for the set.
• Correct errors and exceptions in records loaded in production.
• Maintain statistics on e-resource record load activity.