2021-04-27 Meeting notes

Updates (please add in advance)

10 mins

Liz:

UCB:

1. As of Monday- no more Alma password. Instead we get into Alma using our CalNet i.d.

2. Working groups still working on How we’re going to train.

3. Our affiliated libraries are trying to coordinate better with us. Lots of non-heretofore people are still in the dark too much. Implementation group will talk about this.

Hermine:

• Lots of experimenting with the Connexion Gateway. See Basecamp thread for questions about local extensions showing up in the NZ (and then sometimes disappearing after a few minutes or hours… but sometimes sticking).

• Tentative one-by-one cataloging workflow: export from Connexion using NZ Gateway. Either include local fields and add $9 local using norm rule (original plan); or, add local fields in Alma using template.

• Still getting a lot of questions about authority control workflow.

• Trying to remember 880 fields when writing norm and merge rules. I don’t think there’s a way to tie them to their linked fields, so they are tricky to manage.

Local campus freezes?

UCB: “Tech Svs” freeze -June 15 (not a UCB date) but we want to know just exactly what they mean by “Tech Svs”. … Bibs? (probably), Items? Orders? Etc.? We’re getting more info. this Thursday, April 29.

UCLA: Last day to do any editing in Voyager: June 9.

Order of MVP items

Live OCLC/MDE demo:

Please finalize other features/questions you’d like shown to this document by noon Wednesday

UCB: I reminded our group. I should have something by Wed.

Shared rules

How many merge/norm rules do campuses expect from RMFG? How many can we deliver?

Looking ahead

Metadata exports for HathiTrust and Google Books Digitization