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Core Values and Services
Core Values
- Service orientation
- Responsive to users' needs and changing priorities
- Quick turn-around times for priority services
- Provision of traditional and new services
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Staff equipped with a broad skill set and diversity of talents
- Initiative in learning new skills
- Cross-training on core functions and services
- Support for and commitment to continuing education
- Collaboration
- Sharing of control, credit and responsibility
- Collaboration with departments throughout the library and campus
- Collaboration with external institutions
- Effectiveness and productivity
- Creative use of staff resources to meet current and emerging needs
- Agility and flexibility
- Efficiency, persistence and follow-through
Core Services
- Metadata creation and maintenance
- MARC cataloging
- Current and emerging non-MARC metadata schemas, including Dublin Core and EAD
- Coordination, training and manipulation of data for loading of supplied metadata
- Authority control and database maintenance
- Digital collections
- Selection, creation, maintenance and preservation of digital content
- Administration of digital content management systems
- Web design and public interfaces to digital collections
- Instruction, training and public service related to digital collections and Scholars' Bank
- Conservation and re-formatting
- Binding, conservation and preservation of print materials
- Newspaper and other microfilming operations
- On-demand film, photo and digital reproductions
- Outreach and customer service
- Educating library and campus community about our services
- Support for scholarly communication
- Training campus community to use digital collections and Scholars' Bank
- Advising campus community on collection organization and care of physical materials
Prepared by Mary Grenci and Lori Robare with the assistance of Kate Ball, Cathy Flynn-Purvis, Corey Harper, Lesli Larson and Carol Lenocker
Maintained by: MSDP Webmaster, msdpweb@uoregon.eduLast Modified: 05/30/2007