CMS 2022.01.18

Announcements

Increased volume of WFH, daycare issues, illness: we know this means there will be backlog buildup in the building. Important to know how/where to find things, but the volume of backlog is understood - don’t let this be a stressor right now.
Please read Terri Miller’s 1/7 email. Note that KN95 masks are available to staff at the circulation desk. These are more effective than cloth masks.
Booster requirement: vaccination info portal being updated to accept booster info on Jan. 26. Info is due by Feb. 1. Everyone eligible for a booster by that time is required to have one. Joshua will not be chasing this information down; HR will. This is a University expectation, unless one has an exemption.
Unclear what in-building schedule expectations will be after Feb. 1; library is awaiting further guidance from the University.

FOLIO Open Forum with Kay and Shawn on Jan. 25.
Custom Catalog Task Force being formed, reporting to EDS Task Force. Focused on the custom catalog slice of EDS, assessing what it can and can’t do. Assuming work as the latest test migration in Inventory is being used to populate a fresh load in our test instance of EDS. It’s anticipated that there will be wider assessment of this iteration of the test custom catalog than there has been to date.
The test migration currently in progress into test Inventory is the fourth iteration of these migrations. We’ve been through rounds of feedback from CMTF to EBSCO each time. Same will happen this time: CMTF documenting issues seen and reporting to EBSCO for resolution.
CMTF is hopeful about using this test migration as the basis for familiarizing more MSUL catalogers with FOLIO. Inevitably will involve some level of virtual group meetings and either virtual or in-person one-on-one meetings. CMTF is starting to plan how to roll this out. It won’t be formal training, but a chance to initiate you and gather initial questions from you to help inform later training.

Our account was left behind in RDA’s recent server migration; this is now fixed.
However, our concurrent user count is off. We should have around 10; seems we only have one or two. Joshua will report to Diane.

Tim Kiser attended given role on a cartographic cataloging committee. They have a best practices document they hope to convert into an RDA application profile with policy statements.
Policy statements work entirely differently in new RDA than in old: what were previously long texts have to be exploded into discrete statements.
Watching the recording (when available) will be worthwhile (at least the beginning, remedial part) as an overview or review of how policy statements and application profiles will function in the new Toolkit.
Application profiles function like a kind of cheat sheet of which RDA elements are required or not for a given cataloging context.
Policy statements indicate how / if to apply guidelines on elements collected in application profiles (or in general). These will be consulted more regularly. RDA will be wide open with options on how / if to apply certain guidelines. Policy statements will narrow scope on these options for a given cataloging context (e.g. PCC, LC). So policy statements will be a key aspect of how we navigate and use the new Toolkit.

Upcoming webinar from LC on BIBFRAME developments, including a presentation from Stanford on the use of BIBFRAME connecting to FOLIO.
Stanford has made related presentations to the FOLIO Metadata Management Special Interest Group (MMSIG). Their descriptions actually live outside of Inventory; they have identifiers stored in Inventory that resolve to those external BIBFRAME descriptions (stored in Sinopia).

We are in ALA Midwinter seasons; a good time to keep an eye on listservs for events occurring virtually.
PCC Participants Meeting Feb. 4, 11-1
CORE Interest Group Week Mar. 7-11