Library
Responsibilities


Educational
Background


Publications

Misc Writing/Editorial Work

Andrew D. Shroyer

Associate Librarian

Office: Library North, Room 2021A
Phone: (323) 343-3975
FAX: (323) 343-5600
Email: ashroye@calstatela.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only


LIBRARY RESPONSIBILITIES

As Serials Specialist
  • Performs serials cataloging
  • Resolves serials cataloging and record problems
  • Works to enable electronic access to journals/periodicals content through SFX, Serials Solutions, EJS, the Library catalog, etc.
  • Troubleshoots electronic serials access problems and works to resolve discrepancies among data in parallel systems
  • Maintains the database subscriptions for the Library
  • Liaises with publishers, the Library’s subscription agent (Ebsco), database vendors, the statewide SFX coordinator, the SEIR consortial office, Serials Solutions and Ex Libris to carry out the above

As User Services Librarian
  • Provides reference service
  • Prepares instructional materials, including web resources
  • Serves as Liaison Librarian to the Dept of Psychology
  • On an interim basis, provides instruction for the EDAD and DAAS programs within the Charter College of Education
  • Serves as a member of the Library’s Knowledge Resources Task Force
     

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

M.L.S.
University of Texas at Austin, School of Library and Information Science

B.A. with high honors, journalism (minor:English) 
University of Oklahoma



  • PUBLICATIONS
  • Confessions of a Correspondent from the Choice-of-entry War; Results from a Set of Informal Opinion Surveys”,  Serials Librarian, 51: 2 (2007). 

     With Patricia Burson, “Iconoclasm and the Catalog; Simplifying Serials Information for Users.”  Prepared for and accepted by Haworth peer-reviewed journal,  Serials Reference Services Quarterly  (SRSQ) , for the volume 1, no 1 (2002) planned launch of the journal.  [Haworth aborted SRSQ journal launch, reported by SRSQ editor September 10, 2002].

    “Demystifying SEIR:  Summary of Cataloging Segment” (Report on Segment to CSUL-South program, June 1, 2001 by Dr. Mary Woodley).  http://www.carl-acrl.org/CSUL-South/PastEvents/SEIRSummary.html  

     “High and Low; Images of Librarians and Are They Us?”,  CARL Newsletter,  23:4  (2000).

    With Carolyn Rowe, “Psychology Journal Content on the Internet; A Case Study in Availability.”  Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian, 18:1 (1999)

     “Psychology Journals at UWF: Rescue by the net? Not yet!”  Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, August 1997.

     “Toward Greater Objectivity; Formal Production Standards for Processing Units in Libraries."  Paper delivered at the 1991 Feather River Institute on Acquisitions.  Library Acquisitions, Practice and Theory, 16:2 (1992).

     With Laura Nanna, "Serial Services, 1992; the 29th Annual Survey of U.S. Serial Services." Library Journal, 117:7 (1992).

    "Price Index for U.S. Serial Services, 1991; the 28th Annual.  Survey of U.S. Serial Services." Library Journal, 116:7 (1991)

    MISC WRITING/EDITORIAL WORK 

    Member, Editorial Board, Serials Librarian, a peer-reviewed Hayworth journal (appointed October 2006).

    Editor, InformL (occasional online Library newsletter distributed to faculty),  Spring 2002-present.  Personally compose articles and substantially edit submissions by others.

    CSULA Library Collection Development Guidelines [posted on Library website].  Modestly edited statements composed by the various selectors to achieve reasonable uniformity in prose.  Composed also language describing each “Collecting Intensity Level”, Summer 2005.

    CSULA Library Strategic Plan Goal statements [posted on CSULA Library Intranet].  Substantially responsible for language of each of the five goal statements and  the “preamble” for each goal; collaborated on language of most of the objective statements subordinate to each goal. June-Sept. 2004.

    Editor, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Mid-cycle Review [self-study], CSULA, June 2004.  Authored several assigned sections of the study and substantially edited reports composed by others.

    Editor, Automated Information Resources (AIRS).  Task Force Report.  Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University, October 1993.  Composed section on structured access for remotely accessed materials, in addition to editing full AIRS Report.

    Editor, ARL/OMS Public Services Study, Task Force on Access to Information.  Final Report.  University Library, UCSB, April 1986.  Composed introductory 20-page, footnoted section, "Trends Affecting Access to Information", in addition to editing the full report.