[LM_NET] GEN: No central cataloger?

["Frick, Roger" <rfrick@WAUKESHA.K12.WI.US>]

Are there any other districts out there that use a union catalog but don’t employ 
a central cataloger?  We cannot afford even a part-time central cataloger.  Each 
librarian in our 23-school district can download MARC records and add local tag 
information but some original cataloging is, of course, necessary as well as 
occasional modifications of MARC records.   We would like for each librarian to be 
able modify records where necessary but realize that we need some procedures in 
place before we do this.

 

Do any of you have written procedures or polices in place for letting your staff do 
cataloging?  How do you handle consistency? Does anyone on the staff monitor what 
is being done?  Any suggestions before we embark on this course?

 

Thanks much,

 

Roger Frick, Librarian

South High School

Waukesha, WI 

rfrick@waukesha.k12.wi.us