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The personnel required for the compilation of a union catalog will vary with the size of the catalog and the time within which the work is to be accomplished.
The project supervisor will be responsible for the technical operation of the project, for establishing relations with the libraries involved, and for overseeing the work as a whole. The supervisor should have a capacity for organization, library training, and if possible, some knowledge of union cataloging based upon experience.
The work of the project will be divided among four functional units as follows:
Photographic unit This will consist of one or more groups of three persons per photographing machine. These persons will be trained, by a librarian, in the technique of selecting the cards to be photographed, and will operate in the libraries to be covered in the union catalog, selecting and photographing cards which are to be included.
Typing unit By this unit, which is the basic production unit of the project, cards will be typed from the microfilm records prepared by the photographic unit. There should be a professional librarian as supervisor of each group of twenty (20) typists. While these librarians are not required to have a great deal of experience, technical training as given in a library school is valuable. The librarians chosen to fill these positions should be able to get along with people, be adaptable, willing, and possess a great deal of patience.
Filing unit One trained supervisor will be necessary for the operation of this unit, to arrange the cards, which have been prepared by the typing unit, in proper order for the finished catalog. [p.7]
Revision unit It is the function of this unit to review and edit the completed cards. Because of the high degree of skill required, one librarian will be required to direct two revisers. This unit of the work is in the experimental stage and the possibilities of using non-professional personnel for this highly specialized work will be discussed later (Chap. V, p. 33-37).