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CMS 2023.06.06

Recording

Librarians are reminded that they can only roll over 10 vacation days past June 30th.
You are encouraged to use any surplus vacation days before then.

Kris Baclawski’s retirement will be at the end of this month (party on June 26th!).
Devon and Dayna are taking over serial adds work.
Emily has training scheduled for them.
Catalogers are advised to hold off on sending serial adds until further instructions are given.

Since 2020, OCLC has been working toward deprecating their alphabetical encoding level values for MARC bibliographic records, planning to align with the MARC-defined values instead.
Catalogers are encouraged to use encoding level [blank] (indicating a full-level record) instead of the previous alphabetical code "I" for full-level cataloging.
Please update your constant data accordingly.

Joshua reported on Folio Product Council meeting that introduced developments in the Folio community related to Data Import.
Previously, a group of large Folio libraries (ARLEF), which includes MSU, raised concerns about the trajectory and scalability of the Data Import, and EBSCO has responded by moving to take a leading role in addressing those concerns.
The implications of this development on the Folio release schedule were discussed, with a proposal to merge two releases and potentially freeze other development for around six months.
Long-time Folio community members raised concerns about the unprecedented nature of the proposed release merger.
A positive upshot of addressing capacity issues in Data Import would be benefits for electronic resource management within Folio.

Joshua attended an Orchid update session led by Molly Driscoll.
Molly highlighting in passing some differences in search vs. browse behavior in Orhid.
Joshua demonstrated how queries entered under the browse tab in Inventory in Orchid (e.g. for subject or contributor) take you first to a list of results in shelflist order. Selecting a result passes you through to a search function for the exact AAP matching your selected browse result, but clicking on the browse tab again returns you to your browse results. So unlike earlier releases, you can revisit your browse list after selecting a result.
Issues remain re: indexing of ending punctuation in contributor values in the instance. For example, newly created instance records (i.e. derived from a newly imported SRS record) will include the comma preceding $e in the indexing. Legacy, migrated records do not do this. This difference in indexing behavior results in split files when browsing contributor in Inventory.

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