Harriett is a paraprofessional cataloger and a member of CMET, the Catalog Management and Enhancement Team in the library's Metadata and Digital Library Services department (formerly known as the Catalog Department). She is proud to be an SEIU Local 503 union member (Oregon Public Employees Union, Local 085).
Don't miss the annual Department-Formerly-Known-as-Catalog celebration extraordinaire: the Zucchini Festival! The 1998 extravaganza featured Alien Zucchini, while the theme for 1999 was "Y2Z", with the festivities presided over by our then-reigning Mr. Zucchini, Dan Cogan. After the coup d'etat by the Tomatriarch's supporters, this became the Festival-Formerly-Known-as-Zucchini. Join us as we share in some long-ago Festival memories (thanks to the Wayback Machine. Although the Tomatriarch of the Festival bade us a fond adieu in April 2004, our quirky department will undoubtedly devise other interesting festivities which will bear watching......and, of course, there is always the annual Library Staff Association Gonzo Revue, in which Harriett is often a culprit—that is—participant....
Ready for reference: Classification Web, Cataloger's Desktop on the web, the Library of Congress MARC page, including code lists, the Concise format for Authority Data, OCLC's Bibliographic Formats and Standards, and the WorldCat interface to the UO Libraries catalog.
Looking for other libraries?
To the Bibliotheque
Nationale in France.
To the British Library.
To the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. home page.
The University of Oregon library system is an III site.
To the Library of Congress Home Page
To the National Library of Canada.
To the National Library of Scotland.
To OCLC's home page.
To the University of London Library.
An extremely good resource with something to interest anyone no matter their job description is Library Support Staff.com. The Internet Library for Librarians can be handy. If you are looking for library-related listservs, there is a good list of them at the Wild Librarian page. And, if you are a library paraprofessional you may wish to join the Council on Libary/Media Technicians and/or subscribe to the e-journal by and for paraprofessionals, Associates.
I'm interested in languages, and have a cataloging knowledge of western
European languages. I studied French during school and since, and also some German and a
little Spanish. I am currently trying to teach myself modern
Greek.
I sometimes make a visit to i Love Languages, formerly known as the
Human Languages Page.
One of the many duties I have as a recataloging specialist is to transfer
books from other collections in
the Library to the Special Collections
area, which includes Rare Books, Manuscripts, and the Oregon Collection, among others.
This is one of my favourite tasks. I love the feel, smell, look, and oh yes, the contents, of old books,
especially the books published in the 1600's and 1700's.
Rare
Books
houses some of the very "receipt books" that Juliet Campion might have used.
A few more links:
To the ACRL RBMS: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Section site, and a list of
Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger.
To the ALA Support Staff Interests Round Table
To the ALA
Committee on Cataloging : Description and Access website.
To the Oregon Library Association and the OLA Support Staff Division.
To Oregon's PERS
retirement system home page.
To PEBB, the Public Employees' Benefit Board
To the UO Library
job postings for all levels of staff.
Various U.S. jobsites
To the Pacific Northwest Library Association.
To the UO Library's intranet page.
To Harriett's Home
Page.
To
Juliet's Page.