State Library of Louisiana

The Technical Services department:

• procures new library materials, including books, magazines, audiobooks, and DVDs, disburses invoices, and processes incoming shipments
• uses established cataloging rules to describe and organize all incoming library materials, modifying or creating bibliographic records for the library’s online catalog, and contributing our online catalog records to the OCLC bibliographic database
• electronically captures and archives born-digital state documents for inclusion into the Louisiana State Documents Digital Archive
• processes new materials to make them shelf-ready
• mends damaged materials and prepares materials for binding