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CMS 2023.10.17 Agenda
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Words Matter webinar from Cal State University Libraries
Webinar slides
CSU’s Inclusive Description Task Force website
Words Matter webinar
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LA IV search update
Michael Sipek (has been working for CMS as on-call/temp) has accepted the position – welcome Michael!
Start date and desk location
ALA Romanization tables update
From Mike Erickson, re: webinar on the addition of a new Romanization table for the ADLaM script
New LC classification numbers for asexuality
HQ73.95
Submitted by Mike and approved in September, yay!
Meeting changes
Tuesdays vs. Fridays
New shelving and T Loc updates
Autumn’s updates
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Will be inviting Neil to join a CMS meeting
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-up from Autumn
CSU’s Inclusive Description Task Force site has useful resources
Thanks to Lisa Robinson for great contributions to our own efforts to repair terminology like “illegal aliens”. We’re part of a national movement!
Cataloging often has a focus on procedures but decisions we make about language are meaningful and make things better for library users, especially those who’ve experienced significant lack of respect.
Procedural note: when updating a previously cataloged item with improved language, be sure to replace record in WorldCat!
LA IV search update
Michael Sipek accepted position, previously working in CMS as on-call – will now be full-time.
Official first day is Monday 10/23/23. Cubicle across from Anne Swan & Diane Warner’s office.
Welcome Michael!
New LC Romanization table for ADLaM script
Mike Erickson attended presentation and summarized for us
ADLaM is a script, invented in 1980s, for the Fulani language of West Africa
MSU is one of only 7 U.S. universities with items in ADLaM script!
Transliteration tools for ADLaM now available: Google docs add-on and keyboard map
In related news, LC recently updated transliteration tables for Armenian, Macedonian, Japanese, and Church Slavic.
New LC classification numbers for asexuality
Kudos to Mike Erickson, who proposed this to LC!
Already live in ClassWeb:
HQ73.9 = Asexuality
HQ73.93 = Biography, collective
HQ73.94 = Biography, individual
New CMS meeting schedule
Will now alternate Tuesday & Fridays, to better accommodate work schedules
Hybrid meetings with in-person and Zoom options
“Cataloging lab” follows meeting with cataloger-selected examples to discuss
New shelving and T Loc updates
New shelving installed, thank you Facilities!
Thanks to pandemic and Folio migration, we got behind on T Loc H and T Loc A processing. Autumn is getting us organized again!
Main point for today: we urgently need to reduce the volume of T Loc H. Original catalogers, watch for an email from Autumn with details.
Autumn’s updates
Neil expressed interest in visiting unit & team meetings and has been invited to a future CMS meeting.
Shout-out to Tina Andrews regarding the custom classification project for the Children’s and Young Adult Collection!
Autumn’s new schedule: onsite Monday, Tuesday, and Friday; work-from-home Wednesday & Thursday
And this week, traveling & attending CORE Forum Wed-Fri, 10/18-10/20Reminder: now in-building Monday, Tuesday, and Friday.
CMS 2023.10.03
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Thanks Cathy for sharing this article investigating the use of ChatGPT for creation of MARC records. It prompted an interesting discussion on the Teams chat. Ran out of time to discuss in the meeting but shared here for your perusal!
Autumn is happy to discuss anyone’s thoughts; the Troublesome Catalogers group on Facebook has also had an interesting conversation about it.
CMS 2023.09.19
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Lisa Robinson
Related to the use of alternative vocabularies, see RBMS Combined Vocabulary (RBMS-CV), which has some useful language among their genre terms for “prejudicial works” and can be applied to any type of materials, not just rare books
Backstage in the process of creating authority records for RBMS-CV terms so we can also have these in Folio
Joshua Barton
There is NACO documentation for contacting creators when working to establish names: https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/naco/documents/PCC-SCT-Authority-Control-FAQs-Authors-Creators.pdf
Related Confluence page: Contacting people about their NARs
CMS 2023.09.05
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Library of Congress adopting FOLIO means they will be driving a lot of big performance updates on a condensed timeline
Including big focus on acquisitions functionality, metadata management, and consortial/sharing functionality
They plan to implement in October of 2024
Relevant info from the 18-month road map for FOLIO (see
for details)View file name Roadmap(2).pptx Data Import performance and stabilization a high priority
Including chunking up large files automatically so Data Import doesn’t choke
Search and browse improvements for Inventory
Suppressing and deleting records via Bulk Edit
New apps planned for FOLIO
Lists app – similar in function to Sierra’s Create Lists
Plans to make it possible to use Bulk Edit on record sets created with this app; for now though, it will only collect records based on certain search criteria, and record numbers can be exported to CSV
Expected in Poppy (so January-ish for us)
Workflow engine – automating a set of tasks based on a certain trigger
Ex: when an Instance as marked with statistical code CATMAN--WITHDRAWN, automatically delete holdings and item and add specified administrative note to Instance
Reporting app called MetaDB – some possibilities here, being discussed with Dao, Lucas, and Kay
Reporting has been a significant gap in Folio functionality, so we are looking forward to this
Autumn learned more about how to submit a “bug” in Jira – i.e., report discovered problems in Folio and get them in the queue for software developers to resolve
You can explore issues.folio.org for examples of other tickets (use your Folio login)
Lots of confusing terminology here but also lots of rich detail about what’s in the works
Check OLF’s YouTube playlist for WOLFcon 2023 as presentation recordings get added
CMS 2023.08.15
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Concerns expressed about what this means for the already lengthy turnaround time on SACO work
CMS 2023.08.01
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Though not announced through HR, paperwork is signed today
Handoff of roles is in process; Joshua will be passing along information for continuity
The role is a year long interim appointment through end of July 2024
Joshua discontinuing standing meetings; Autumn will reach out to those who’ve had meetings with Joshua to establish a cadence
An interim head of CopyCat will be found; in meantime, Autumn is still supervising copy catalogers
CMS 2023.07.18
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Joshua remains head of cataloging until an interim is confirmed.
Open call ended Friday and at least one person expressed interest; formality of an interview would follow. No further details available at the point of this meeting.
CMS 2023.06.20
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Still on track for some time the week of June 26
CMS 2023.06.06
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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.
CMS 2023.05.16
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