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19 (DRAFT)

Present: Joshua, Don, Autumn, Dao, Kay, Ranti, Lisa S., Lee, Lisa R., Brooke, Don T.

Regrets:

Agenda

  • Item 1
  • Item 2
  • Item 3
  • Approve TS Council minutes from 7-10-19
  • Discuss "what a system "must" do"

Action items

  •  Action 1
  •  Action 2
  •  Action 3

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  • Decision 1
  • Decision 2
  • Decision 3


07-10-19 TS Council

Present: Joshua, Tim, Dao, Don, Autumn, Nicole, Lisa S., Ed, Ranti, Lisa R

Regrets: Kay, Emily, Lucas

Round robin

  • Joshua
    • Report for Lisa R.: remaining changes to headings referencing "Illegal aliens" or "aliens" have been made (582 records); any such terms that come in in copy records will be programmatically changed
    • ALA report:
      • Talk from Univ of Wyoming about inserting jpegs into Sierra records for display of thumbnails in public catalog; could we use Millennium Media Manager feature to do the same? Could be useful for certain types of cataloging, like the kits and objects Janet is currently handling.
      • TJ Kao of GW Univ presentation about workarounds in Alma for item-level description of rare materials
      • Cataloging ethics discussion group; vendor participant brought info about market pressure to include metadata that privileges discovery of certain resources in discovery layer products
    • Intern Michael Sipek doing great work on Japanese comics
  • Tim
    • ALA 
      • Open house at LC Geography and Maps
      • Concluded two year term on group with very long name; starting chair term of other group with very long name
      • Attended 7.5 hours of CC:DA meetings – will share details with CMS group at next meeting
      • Toolkit planned to be finalized in early part of 2020, but Tim feels this is too optimistic
      • Kate James from LC presented on non-human personages; new RDA does not accommodate these, so LC is proposing a workaround; more details will be shared at CMS meeting
  • Dao
    • Ongoing work with test server
      • Many issues surrounding campus security and pushing this project through IT
      • Innovative restored the test server but problems still arose with updating/adding records
      • Can at least view records up to July 2018; later records may or may not be corrupted
      • Dao will send instructions for accessing the newly restored test server
  • Ranti
    • ALA: Attended several talks about organizational culture, with topics like inclusion, using privilege to make library environments more equitable, etc.
    • Record loads for Serials Solutions, catching up with troubleshooting, record cleaning
  • Don
    • Lots of labeling trucks waiting! Working on keeping up with those
  • Nicole
    • ALA
      • Note about Sinopia: you really need to know RDA really well to use it!
      • A lot of linked data activity seems to be really focused now on Wikidata; OCLC and LC are starting to cross pollinate databases 
      • MarcEdit talks: reminder that the tool is internationally focused
      • Submitting terms to LCDGT still on hold
      • Cataloger's Desktop password requirements will be made less onerous
      • ClassWeb update coming Summer/Fall 2019; macros will be built in, and submitting proposals for new subject headings will have a streamlined interface
    • Beginning BIBCO review! Focused on graphic materials; will be one of the few experts in this area.
  • Lisa S.
    • Just finished fiscal year invoices; closing went ok, second closing coming up soon (for any final corrections)
    • Back to business as usual 
    • Submitted detailed financial reports to Comptroller's Office as required
  • Ed
    • His first meeting!
    • Still learning; assisted with report submission
    • Taking Fundamentals of Acquisitions ALCTS online course
  • Lisa R.
    • Unit is up to date on blind headings report! Working towards this for some while
      • Mark Andrews has joined the team and is working very quickly
    • ALA
      • Learned that Rice Univ is going to Alma on August 1; Brown Univ just transitioned
      • Cornell working on a tool that queries multiple authority sources to accomplish authority control in a BIBFRAME environment (including Discogs!)
      • LC Policy and Standards Division has merged with COIN to become the Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division (PTCP) 

Other announcements

  • Reference Kay's emails for details about her ALA report and the upcoming RFP process
  • Tornado drills coming up next week; 1:30pm for 1st floor on July 16 (also occurring during CMS meeting on 3rd floor, which we can ignore)

05-22-19

Present: Joshua, Don, Autumn, Dao, Kay, Lisa S. (notes)

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