Jane Ouderkirk

Jane Ouderkirk, Managing Director of Knowledge & Information Assets (KIA, Harvard Business School's Knowledge and Library Services.

Jane Ouderkirk is the Managing Director of Knowledge & Information Assets (KIA) for Harvard Business School's Knowledge and Library Services.

Jane Ouderkirk, Harvard University, Head of Harvard College Library Technical Services

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Jane Ouderkirk

With more than thirty years in library management, Jane Ouderkirk has worked in public, special, and academic libraries.For the past twelve years she has been at the Harvard College Library, first as Head of Cataloging and as Head of Technical Services for the past four years.Jane has been involved with library automation since the early '80s and believes that the future of technical services is dependent upon the coordination of local resources and vendor supplied services with decisions based on cost analysis and patron-centered added value options.

Harvard's Jane Ouderkirk is delaying choice of an Integrated Library System.
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Jane Ouderkirk (Harvard) said that statistics such as those that Mike Bruer and Sue Phillips gave, are good jumping-off points for further discussion.

Jane Ouderkirk (Harvard) said it would be helpful for workflow to have vendor records coded differently from cataloging records.
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Jane Ouderkirk said that Harvard budgets an equivalent of a full time cataloger to pay OCLC's Tech Pro whenever a backlog develops in an area.
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Jane Ouderkirk (Harvard) said she would prefer to contribute some money to have it done.

Jane Ouderkirk from Harvard University and Marvin Bielawski from Princeton University explained how they used TSWs to automate labor-intensive, routine processes in the Cataloging and Acquisitions Departments at their respective universities.
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Ouderkirk reported that the Technical Services Department staffing at Harvard has decreased 18 percent, primarily due to the use of the TSWs that have increased productivity by 63 percent, while improving the turnaround time of materials through the department.

Jane Ouderkirk Head, Library Technical Services

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