Library Professionals
Library Professionals
| Name | Heidi Hanson |
| Phone | (301) 405-9338 |
| hh41@umail.umd.edu | |
| Office | Catalog Management Dept., McKeldin Library |
| Position | Head, Catalog Management Department |
| Job Description | Supervise a staff of 1 librarian, 16 support staff and 3.5 FTE student assistants in four units--Serial Adds, Projects, End Processing, and Retrospective Holdings Conversion--responsible for maintaining the accuracy of bibliographic and holdings information in the UM Libraries' catalog databases (College Park and the University System of Maryland (USM)). Develop catalog management priorities, set and maintain catalog management procedures, and coordinate catalog management activities with other Divisions within the Libraries. |
| Education | A.M.L.S., The University of Michigan, 1984. B.A. (French), Arizona State University, 1974. |
| Professional Memberships | |
| Professional Publications | "Technical Services Web Pages." Presentation at the Maryland
Library Association '98 Conference, Ocean City MD, May 7, 1998.
"Quality Control: Identifying Problems, Effecting Solutions." Presentation to the ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Discussion Group, American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, June 27, 1998. "The PAC Says the Book's Here--Is It?" Workshop presented at the 1996 National CARL User Group Meeting, Chicago, September 1996. |
| Current activities | Member of the University System of Maryland Electronic Resources Committee (USMERC) and the USMERC PAC Subcommittee; member of the USM CARL Database Maintenance Committee; member, UM Libraries Cataloging and Processing Priorities Committee; member and Chair in alternate years of the TSD Cataloging Policy Committee; member, TSD Editorial Committee; member, UM Libraries GOVDOC processing group. Trained by the University of Maryland Office for Continuous Quality Improvement to serve as a CQI team facilitator. |
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