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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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Interim roles for Joshua and Autumn concluding as planned in August
Technical Services AD position posting and timeline
Janice Ahee retiring, last day 6/25
Plans for cataloging Special Collections materials during their move, timelines, etc.
RDA Phase 1 training update
- E-resources working group update
New conception of AD position adds Collections budget/planning oversight as well as Conservation/Preservation unit
Steve’s retirement prompted reorg of collections work/reporting
Liaisons now report through collections coordinators, so much of Steve’s work has been distributed to other areas, will not be included in this AD’s portfolio
Janice Ahee retiring, last day 6/25
Congratulations Janice! Thanks for all your important contributions especially re: the Arsenal collection.
Plans for cataloging Special Collections materials during their move, timelines, etc.
Usual workflows of cataloging for SPC will be disrupted during the move (they will be unable to shelve and tag new cataloging)
Joshua, Leslie, Nicole, Autumn, Lisa E., and others working on a plan to temporarily take over storage and tagging of cataloged SPC materials
Conversation is ongoing, details will be firmed up later in the summer
This will occur between August and October
RDA Phase 1 training update
Library of Congress beginning their rolling adoption of the new RDA, so a CMS group (Tim, Nicole, Autumn, Joshua) is keeping tabs on this implementation and viewing all training materials being produced
This first set of modules is focused more on theory and less on day-to-day practice
No immediate action planned for CMS on this front; just be aware that new RDA training is being developed and our RDA group is watching these to get a sense of next steps
E-resources working group update
Some context:
In Sierra, e-resource records were loaded and continuously updated
When we migrated to FOLIO, system limitations at that time made it impossible to load e-resource records
The E-resources Working Group (EWG) is revisiting this question now that FOLIO functionality has progressed
Progress so far:
Benchmarking with other institutions, survey deployed and responses gathered
Expect to have a recommendation for EC and the new AD in the fall
2. Moving to Poppy
Prepare to use 949 strings starting Wednesday 5/22
Multiple holdings & items
Documentation coming soon
Bound-withs and analytics
Some documentation in place, more coming
Some decisions about analytics still outstanding, stay tuned
Other features & changes to have on your radar
Advanced search in Inventory
Create MARC record in QuickMarc
Call number browse issue
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