The Stone Center Library

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The Stone Center Library A UNC-Chapel Hill/YBP
Partnership
GOBI User Group Meeting ALA Midwinter January 16,
2005
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Library Concerns

• 7,000 Volume Opening Day Collection
• Time Pressure
• No Additional Staff
• Split System (Innovative Acq/DRA Cat)
• Many Copy 2s

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Process

• Identify candidates (YBP)
• Select (UNC Selectors)
• Search DRA and GOBI/Select (UNC Acquisitions)
• Retrieve Selections, Review Release Orders (UNC
  Order Supervisor)
• Fill Orders/Process Books/Create Records (YBP)
• Receive Books/Pay Invoices/Load Records to
  Innovative DRA (UNC Acq)
• Sort and Store Books (UNC Acq)
• Transport Books to Stone Center Shelve (UNC
  SILS and Library Staff)
• Isolate OP/Other Candidates for Future Review
  (YBP)

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Candidates

• Black Studies or Africa or Caribbean-Related
• Published 1992-2004
• In Print, Received by BT/YBP in Last 2 Years
• Cloth-Preferred
• Tweaks
• Newest Edition Only
• Light on Music, Art, Cookbooks
• Aimed for
• 60 African-American
• 20 Africana
• 20 Black Diaspora
• 12,000 Titles Culled to 8,000 (7,150 Available)

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Candidates Loaded into GOBI Folders, Separating
YBP/LH Humanities/ Social Sciences Available/ O
P/Other
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UNC Chapel Hill Selectors

• Reviewed GOBI Folders To
• Delete Unwanted Titles
• Add Other Desired Titles

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The Searching Began
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Problems Folder
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And The Books Arrived
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Receiving
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Sorted and Stored in Acquisitions
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Packed to Go To Stone
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The Final Product
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Results

• Project Ran Mainly April-September, though Some
  Stragglers Shipped After That
• 7,012 Books Shipped
• Some Record Load Glitches, But Most Went Smoothly
• OP/Other Set Aside for Now

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Contacts

• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Betty Meehan-Black
• bmblack_at_email.unc.edu
• [phone]
• YBP
• Ann-Marie Breaux
• abreaux_at_ybp.com
• [phone]