Technical Services Division
The Technical Services Division is responsible for the acquisition and cataloging of monographic, serial, electronic, and non-book materials for the SDSU Library and the Imperial Valley Campus Library, and for providing public service for SDSU current periodicals and microforms. The Division is comprised of the: | Monographs Unit | Serials Unit | Current Periodicals and Microforms Center |
- To recommend a title, submit a book acquisition recommendation form.
- For information on library donations, see our gift policy.
- For our binding schedule, see binding shipment information.
Monographs Unit
Head: Stephen Savage
The Monographs Unit acquires, catalogs, and makes available monographic material in book, microform, media, electronic, and special formats. Acquisitions operations include ordering, receiving, maintaining WebPAC records, processing invoices for payment, maintaining fiscal records, and preparing books for binding. Cataloging operations include obtaining or creating cataloging records, maintaining WebPAC records for public display, updating WWW links for electronic access, maintaining library holdings in WorldCat, and marking and labeling library books.
Monographs Unit Staff
- Pamela Hall, Budget and Monographs Acquisitions Coordinator (x44732)
E-mail:phall@mail.sdsu.edu- General acquisition questions
- Gift policy questions
- Approval book questions
- Terry Ventura, Monographs Cataloging Coordinator (x48775)
E-mail:tventura@mail.sdsu.edu - Yuan Liang
- Ann Nevitt
- Lorraine Quintero
- Susan Soto
- Amy Tsuji
Catalog Librarians
- Martha McPhail
- Steven Kiczek
- William Pease (Retiree Volunteer)
Serials Unit
Head: Julie Su
The Serials Unit acquires, catalogs, and makes available periodicals, newspapers, and other continuing resources in paper, microform, media, electronic, and special formats. Acquisitions operations include ordering, receiving, checking in, claiming, maintaining online acquisitions data, processing invoices for payment, maintaining licensing agreements, and preparing serials for binding, and sorting library mail. Cataloging operations include obtaining or creating cataloging records, maintaining serial holdings and related data for display to the public on WebPAC, and updating WWW links for electronic access.
Serials Unit Staff
- Julie Su, Serials & Digital Resources Librarian (619.594.0904)
- Electronic Serials and Web resources management
- Cataloging
- Chinese, Japanese & Korean materials
- SFX linking
- Serials Solutions
- Marsha Shea, Serials Acquisitions Coordinator (619.594.4121)
- Electronic serials ordering & licensing agreements
- Problem solving electronic access
- Gift policy questions
- Mina Muessigmann, Serials Cataloging Coordinator (619.594.6755)
- Cataloging & updating bibliographic records
- Serial holdings maintenance
- WebPAC display issues
- Vacant Position
- Microforms ordering, receiving, check-in & invoice processing
- Claims
- Replacement orders
- Pat Meyer, (619.594.6798)
- Periodical ordering, receiving, check-in & invoice processing
- Routing lists
- Sample issues
- Tyler Rogers, (619.594.4082)
- Continuations ordering, receiving, check-in & invoice processing
- Vacant Position
- Binding
- Bindery Schedule
