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TS Council 7-11-2018 (DRAFT)
Present: Joshua, Tad, Autumn, Dao, Kay, Ranti, Tim, Lucas, Emily, Nicole, Lee
Regrets: Don, Lisa S., Lisa R.
Agenda
- Update on uniform time reporting idea
- white boards not an option because of marker dust on fabric
- other things to consider
- paper notepads, pins
- doors for cubicles would allow mounting whiteboards
- Confluence location for TS minutes (Autumn)
- switching to maintaining TSTM notes in Confluence
- keeping space publicly viewable for lib staff, but not posting link to space anywhere except intranet
- check on web crawling!
- THE MOLLY BROWN PAPERS
- Feedback for incoming director Joe Salem
- for instance, Kay assumes we’d like to maintain current pro dev funding levels
- anything else?
- maintain 7a-7p working hrs
- prox card entry to TS instead of keys?
- dearth of language expertise in cataloging across the field, possibility of hiring someone with advanced degrees but no MLIS
- would like to retain “Technical Services” name
- commitment to cataloging at full levels and national cooperative cataloging
- commitment to continued authority control and identity management
- Kay would like a hosted ILS so we can get away from server maintenance, dependence on university ITS
- keep thinking and send Kay’s way
- Interesting thoughts from ALA
- Tad RBMS preconference
- discussion group for newer professionals finding full time work
- learned a lot about other institutions’ projects, especially around underrepresented groups and collections
- Smith College — $5000 a year set aside, let class groups propose purchase of certain materials
Emily
- RDA Forum
- numbering issue still controversial
- spring 2019 as potential launch
- did a lot w ALCTS, upcoming realignment discussion and survey results
- working groups looking at budget/finance and communication/planning
- report planned for midwinter
- discussions about possible LITA/ALCTS forum instead of midwinter
Ranti
- LITA perspective on realignment
- some concerns about incorporating LLAMA, LITA’s flat structure as opposed to ALCTS’ sections and committees at different levels
- session on presenting digital collections
- noticing other institutions have metadata folks really enmeshed within traditional cataloging units instead of highly separate roles and units like we do
Tim
- whenever beta Toolkit is launched, groups like PCC will have to decide on individual basis when/how to adopt (and also will need to tackle revision of policy statements)
- preconference on proposing new LC classification numbers
- some questions about retrospective projects?
Lucas
- heard suggestion for returning midwinter to business meetings only, no programming
- MARC Advisory Committee meeting; passed two proposals related to accessibility
- 041 for AV materials; also 341 and 342
- PCC discussion about use of $2 in 1XX and 7XX to indicate source of identifier (would aid with reconciliation)
- British Lib opposed because identity management shouldn’t make use of preferred strings
- LC presentation on non-Latin scripts in BF descriptions
- U of Fla used vendor to apply JSTOR subject vocabs to resources via machine learning processes
- U of Fla including articles by their own faculty from open access journals in institutional repository—getting metadata from Elsevier; accepted manuscripts next on the list
- AI lab by U of Rhode Island
- lab set up with College of Engineering; AI being used for abstracting and indexing, feature detection and content extraction
Dao
- heard Innovative is investing $25m in software development
- lots of discussion about data privacy, security
- increased usage of Kbar (?) in knowledge bases
- Syndetic purchased by ProQuest, new enhancements added to product
Joshua
- cataloging lab by Violet Fox
- tackling changes to LCSH in a collective way
- BTAA thinking about collective proposals also
- trying to resolve issue with OCLC WCP sending us minimal records, but with call numbers pulled from more desirable full level records
Lee
- BTAA trying to resolve issue of rising costs with Kanopy’s PDA service; meeting some resistance from their executive leadership, who doesn’t want to work with consortiums
- three libraries preparing to go live with Folio
- updates coming to issn.org
Kay
- presentation on implementing meditation rooms (something we’re thinking about here)
- challenges with naming them!
- location of restrooms a factor (washing feet)
- Duke has two rooms — one for prayer/reflection, one for wellbeing (stuff like yoga, etc)
- Re-indexing done. Time to check results.
- Joshua suggests taking spreadsheet and divvying up among TSTM to test
Action items
- Autumn – check on web crawling of Confluence TSTM space
Decisions
- The new Confluence space for meeting notes looks good; we will use it going forward
07-04-18 (sample)
Present: Joshua, Don, Autumn, Dao, Kay, Ranti, Lisa S., Lee, Lisa R., Brooke, Don T.
Regrets:
Agenda
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Action items
- Figure out TSTM notes maintenance in Confluence
- Inform other TSTM members – demo in meeting?
Decisions
- Decision 1
- Decision 2
- Decision 3
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