Blueprint for Collaboration: The University of Florida Storage Documents Project

When the University of Florida embarked on the “StoDocs” project to catalog pre-1976 Federal  documents, they discovered challenges: Most staff doing the cataloging were unfamiliar with documents and had never heard of the SuDocs Classification System; the Government Documents staff who curate the collection and the indexes used to verify SuDocs call numbers were 5 miles away; the catalogers at GPO offer monographic and serial records for the same items; and all items had to be barcoded to the specifications of a high-density storage facility. The StoDocs team came up with creative solutions to overcome these seemingly impossible difficulties and bonded in the process.