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MMC Staff
 

Kendra Banks, Senior

Educational: English/German major, secondary certification
Music background: flute, choirs, drama group, college music appreciation class
Languages: English/German bilingual

Slow time tasks:

  • Completes physical processing of scores
  • Adds item records for volumes & copies
  • Adds contents notes to bibliographic records
  • Assists in preparing MMC documents
  • Prepares new book displays
  • Typing, filing, and reader work
  • Processes gifts

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    Morihiko Nakahara, Junior

    Educational: Music Education major, K-12 certification
    Additional music background: clarinet, wind symphony, orchestra, conducting
    Languages: Japanese/English bilingual

    Slow time tasks:

  • Copy cataloging of sound recordings & scores
  • Assigns sound recording call numbers
  • Preorder searching for sound recordings
  • Prepares orders for sound recordings
  • Statistical reports
  • Monitors the age of OCLC Save records

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    Aseneta Tasevska, Freshman

    Educational: Piano performance
    Additional music background: accompanying, church music, organ
    Languages: Macedonian/Serbian/English trilingual, Russian

    Slow time tasks:

  • Completes physical processing of sound recordings
  • Database maintenance work for SDA Obituary Index

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    Joseph Lance, Graduate Student

    Educational: Composition & Theory (M.A.)
    Additional music background: horn, guitar, viola, orchestra, wind symphony, church music, choirs
    Languages: reading French

    Slow time tasks:

  • Name-title authority cleanup
  • Downloads & edits authority records into OPAC
  • Record enhancement (contents notes, added entries, etc.)
  • Copy cataloging
  • Prepares original cataloging records
  • Creates specialized and new book lists
  • Links "bound with" records in OPAC
  • Assists with training new staff
  • Prepares items for reserve

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    Sheila Campbell, Senior

    Educational: Dietetics
    Music background: piano, clarinet, bassoon, horn, wind symphony, choirs, college music appreciation course
    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Slow time tasks:

  • Card catalog retirement project
  • Pamphlet binding and score repair

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    Linda Mack, Music Librarian

    Educational: M.Music in Organ Performance; MLIS in Library Science
    Additional music background: Piano, harpsichord, recorder, horn, Church music, accompanying, orchestra, choirs, early music groups, keyboard teaching, humanities course teaching
    Languages: reading German and French

    Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for setting policy for the MMC
  • Provides reference service and bibliographic instruction for music
  • Responsible for collection development for all music materials
  • Catalogs scores and sound recordings
  • Supervises MMC student assistants
  • Music Librarian Job Description
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    Supervision/Communication
     

    The Music Librarian is the primary supervisor

    1. "Enigma and Variations" shelf

    Student staff members use this area to communicate problems to supervisor

    2. E-mail list

    News, new policies, problems, etc. are communicated to staff in this way. Staff responds that they have read and received with questions or comments

    3. Student assistant shelves

    Each staff member has a shelf exclusively for library projects. New or ongoing projects are left there with lists/instructions.

    4. Quizzes

    When problems occur that the whole staff can benefit from confronting, the librarian constructs an appropriate quiz to test all workers' knowledge of the subject

    5. OCLC Save file

    Student assistants doing cataloging save all work in the SAVE file. The Music Librarian checks the work before adding to the OCLC database or downloading into the library's OPAC

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    James White Library
    Job Levels for Student Assistants
     
     
    DESCRIPTION
    LEVEL 1
    LEVEL 2
    LEVEL 3
    Mental Effort Alphabetize Interpret Information Analyze Information
    Judgement and/ or Supervision Under direct supervision Under general directions  Use frequent judgement, make difficult decisions, Little supervision
    Physical Effort Moderate physical activity Physical activity varied Physical activity varied
    Personal Interaction Minimal interaction Moderate interaction Stressful patron contact
    Technical Skills JeWel, Typing PC skills Specific software programs
    Equipment and Machines Typewriters, Basic department equipment Typewriters, Basic department equipment Troubleshoot for department machinery
    Hazards and Working Conditions Some back strain/eye fatigue Some back strain/eye fatigue Some back strain/eye fatigue
     

    MMC Student Assistants are hired at Level 2.

    They advance to Level 3 after they show increase in judgment, work well with little supervision, and successfully handle more complex tasks

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