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- heard suggestion for returning midwinter to business meetings only, no programming
- MARC Advisory Committee meeting; passed two proposals related to accessibility
- 041 for AV materials; also 341 and 342
- PCC discussion about use of $2 in 1XX and 7XX to indicate source of identifier (would aid with reconciliation)
- British Lib opposed because identity management shouldn’t make use of preferred strings
- LC presentation on non-Latin scripts in BF descriptions
- U of Fla used vendor to apply JSTOR subject vocabs to resources via machine learning processes
- U of Fla including articles by their own faculty from open access journals in institutional repository—getting metadata from Elsevier; accepted manuscripts next on the list
- AI lab by U of Rhode Island
- lab set up with College of Engineering; AI being used for abstracting and indexing, feature detection and content extraction
Sa Dao
- heard Innovative is investing $25m in software development
- lots of discussion about data privacy, security
- increased usage of Kbar (?) in knowledge bases
- Syndetic purchased by ProQuest, new enhancements added to product
Joshua
- cataloging lab by Violet Fox
- tackling changes to LCSH in a collective way
- BTAA thinking about collective proposals also
- trying to resolve issue with OCLC WCP sending us minimal records, but with call numbers pulled from more desirable full level records
Lee
- BTAA trying to resolve issue of rising costs with Kanopy’s PDA service; meeting some resistance from their executive leadership, who doesn’t want to work with consortiums
- three libraries preparing to go live with Folio
- updates coming to issn.org
Kay
- presentation on implementing meditation rooms (something we’re thinking about here)
- challenges with naming them!
- location of restrooms a factor (washing feet)
- Duke has two rooms — one for prayer/reflection, one for wellbeing (stuff like yoga, etc)
- Re-indexing done. Time to check results.
- Joshua suggests taking spreadsheet and divvying up among TSTM to test
Action items
- Autumn – check on web crawling of Confluence TSTM space
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