Has anyone seen this character lately?

If you missed it the first time around, check out the CCG Video.

The Copy Cataloguing Group (CCG) is continuing its quest for knowledge of RDA in all its formats.

CCG needs you!

Do you have any questions? We may have the answers on our LibGuide.

Check out the FAQs, and if you don’t see an answer to your question, send an email to Donna Frederick (Donna.Frederick@usask.ca) or Fern Fitzharris (Fern.Fitzharris@usask.ca).

The list of FAQs is a work in progress, so you can help us build this list with your questions.

While you’re on our LibGuide, take a peek at our progress report.

-CCG (who are we? click here)

Nicholas Kelly is our new librarian on the 6^th floor. During Nick’s 6 month term position, he will be working to improve and update the ERM and assisting with day-to-day workflows in Collection Services. He is originally from upstate New York and moved to Vancouver 4.5 years ago to do a Master’s in Music Composition at UBC. He began volunteering at the Canadian Music Centre Library where he decided to pursue an MLIS to become a music librarian. This gradually morphed into a more general interest in cataloguing, metadata, and technical services. After completing his MLIS last year, he moved to Edmonton for a term position in the Cataloguing division at Edmonton Public Library.

Nicholas is excited to be at the University Library, and is learning to apply his knowledge of technical services to an academic setting. He is also adjusting to the cold, as he has never experienced a SK prairie winter before!

He still composes music and is collaborating on a few interesting projects!

Welcome Nick!

Contributors: Katelyn Haskell & Leah Knox from Collection Services

Have you heard the screams from the sixth floor? There have been crashes and bashes and eyeballs rolling. And who is this all dolled up??

To find out more, please join us** on October 30 from 1:30-2:30 in Murray Room 102 for an afternoon of drama, cataloguing-style.

**Who are we? The Copy Cataloguing Group (aka CCG) is a team comprised primarily of Collection Services employees–Laurie Bird, Dawn Crichton, Fern Fitzharris (Supervisor), Anna Gersher, Leah Knox, Karen Somerville, Renée Yanko–and includes Amanda Gieni (from the St. Thomas More Shannon Library) and Donna Frederick (Metadata Librarian).

In mid-June, the Collection Services Unit gained a lovely new employee–Sarah Rutley–who joined the unit in a full-time 6 month term to work with gifts-in-kind material, specifically the Hanson History Collection. The position was made possible by funding from the Edney Trust. With a B.A. in Russian Studies and an M.A. in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sarah brings a wealth of knowledge ideal for handling this unique collection of mostly Russian language material. As Sarah investigates and processes the Hanson gifts-in-kind collection, she will be working closely with Anna Gersher, who also has Slavic languages expertise and has been responsible for copy-cataloguing any Slavic material.

Stay tuned for the second installment of this mini blog series on the Hanson GIK collection, as Sarah will be highlighting a very interesting item, 40 Portraits, from this collection.

Sarah and Anna investigating a unique item from the Hanson gifts-in-kind collection