Bindery preparation and processing

My budget is like grains of sand through a sink-hole. I'm certain it
will surface in Moab, Utah 30 million years from now. Until then, I must
re-evaluate staffing and production statistics in my COMMERCIAL BINDERY
PREPARATIONS UNIT.

Question: Could I have a show of through-put statistics for commercial
bindery preparations?  Does anyone have rates per hour? Please describe
conditions to which statistics apply.

UF Statistics in brief.

* 1.0 FTE = 40 hrs/wk - 2.5 hrs/wk break-time - @ 3 hrs/wk committees,
     etc. = 34.5 work hrs/wk x 50 wks (accounting for 2 wks vacation) =
     1725 work hours.

* 1.0 FTE prepared 25,911 monograph vols in fy 1989/90 for commercial
     bindery. At calculated work hours per FTE, this rate equals @ 15
     vols per hour. Monograph preparations staff decides leaf
     attachment, charges volume using NOTIS, does not prepare binding
     slip, documents activity. Vols come to staff via new acquisitions &
     cataloging, with some from circulation.  Quality control (leaf
     attachment, printing & lettering, bookcloth color & weight) and end
     processing (discharge, relocation of piggy-back barcode) are also
     included.

* 1.0 FTE prepared 13,469 serial vols in fy 1989/90 for commercial
     bindery. At calculated work hours per FTE, this rate equals [at] 7__8
     vols per hour. Serials preparations staff decides leaf attachment,
     charges volume using NOTIS, corrects preprinted binding slip as
     necessary, create item records using NOTIS, collation of issues,
     documents activity.  Gathering is done by other staff in
     collections.  Quality control (including collation of issues) and
     end processing, as described above, are also included.

How do these rates given circumstances compare?

Erich J. Kesse
Preservation Office
University of Florida Libraries
904-392-6962
Fax: 904-392-7251

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