Re: Job Description List

["Ellen R. Murphy" <emurphy@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

The person who enters MARC data in our library is called a "processing
assistant". It probably isn't great but better than clerk. MARC data
entry is far from easy and the job title should reflect
that.   Ellen Murphy Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School Rockville, MD

On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Michele Mueller wrote:

> Louise --
>
> GREAT idea!  If someone takes each of the catagories, and the rest of us
> route our ideas to those individuals, who then compose a HIT, it will
> avoid all the cross-postings I was fearfully imagining would bog us down
> completely.  Brilliant!
>
> Before we start, I have two questions:
>
> Ruth Rogers:  I'm not sure what you mean when you say you are putting
> together a compilation.  Would what Louise proposes interfere with your
> efforts?  How does this idea strike you? etc.
>
> All:  I've gotten some more feedback on the subcatagories since my second
> posting.  Someone wants to know if keeping the library budget should be
> under "clerical duties"; I suppose it should.  Whoever takes on the
> receipt of the ideas for a catagory should feel free to expand its
> parameters as they see fit, etc.  Someone else wrote me that entering
> MARC records should be included in something, and I suppose that would be
> clerical, since ordering & processing is there.  The person wondered if
> something so important should be relegated to such a lowly catagory as
> "clerical".  Perhaps we should re-title "clerical" to sound more
> executive -- how about "Administrative Duties"?  After all, a rose is a
> rose ....
>
> What do y'all think?
>