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• Poppy Dry Run environment available Friday 7/19 (early morning - possibly before we arrive for work).

  • All testing in Dry Run should be concluded by Tuesday 7/23

  • If all goes well, we’ll approve and move forward with updating Production.

  • Service patch 6 has been added to our test environment already. Dry Run environment will have slightly more updated data - they reproduce production to create Dry Run.

  • Please take some time Friday-Tuesday and play around with Dry Run and let Autumn know if you encounter any issues.

• Poppy installed to Production early Friday morning, 7/26 - barring an act of God.

  • Begin using new 949 on this day

• Catalog harvests for VuFind will be paused from 7/26 - 7/29 (watch for more details from Devin Higgins and/or CDAWG)

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• New procedure for supplemental items in SPC materials - i.e., anything meant to be used with the piece - occludes laid-in materials (bookmark, grocery list, etc.), which we already have a procedure for (ex. Recipe cards). Something that should be included in a 300 field, truly supplemental material.

  • Include in 300 $e, or use multiple 300s, if important to break out or you have multiple supplemental items.

  • Include call number with the supplemental piece(s)

  • When in doubt, consult Head of Cataloging, Tad, or the purchasing selector.

  • Route to Tad (email) so he can work to get the piece housing (box or folder) while Preservation is swamped with the move.

• Change re: cataloged SPC materials needing conservation attention

  • Starting in August, route these directly to the Conservation Lab instead of placing on the SPC cataloging truck - (a result of the move).

  • Autumn will follow-up with Conservation to verify where they’d like these SPC materials to go - shelf or cart.

• New procedure for ISBNs in set records

  • We can force VuFind to grab the ISBN for the first volume we hold and display it if we put that ISBN as the first ISBN.

• New Tigre and Tigrinya translation numbers in Confluence (thanks Mike!)

• New URL for the Cataloging Calculator

  • Added to Confluence as well

• Best Practices for Queer Metadata added to our General cataloging tools page (thanks Emily!)

  • Metadata for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources also added to the General cataloging tools page.

Updates from the field

• Changes to LC’s process for considering SACO proposals

  • Instead of monthly meetings (in place since 2021), moving to quarterly meetings and limiting their scope

  • More info here: https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/subject/meetings-change.pdf

  • Many SACO funnel coordinators voiced concerns over this change

    • Open letter submitted to LC

• PCC Participants meeting this Thursday 7/18

  • Updates on RDA, SACO, and AI in metadata task force

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• Interim assignments update - plans to maintain interim assignment for gap we have during search for AD for Collections and Technical Services. Autumn will be communicating out as this evolves.

• Question – anyone using the MARC authorities app to consult our authority file?

  • Joshua uses it to look up local subject headings.

• Request from FOLIO governance group and Data Import SIG to create videos of routine work in Inventory, Data Import, etc.

  • Any volunteers? A yes from Ruth Ann and Cherish. Contact Autumn for more info or to volunteer.

• Autumn out Friday 7/19, working remotely 7/22 - 7/26

  • Feel free to Zoom or Teams chat Autumn with questions, etc.

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CMS 2024.5.21

Recording

Coming soon.

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