2024-09-26 Meeting notes

Updates/announcements (Please add in advance)

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10 min.

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• UCD:

  • Recruiting a Metadata Strategy Specialist (job posting)

• UCLA:

  • WorldCat cleanup projects. Recently I submitted a request to OCLC QC to remove a lot of 506 fields that were institution-specific. We’ve also received some suggestions for 856 fields that are problematic and should be deleted (from Alma, but also from WorldCat) (Many of them have blank indicators, so were let through the norm rule.) Is there any role for RM-OST in collecting suggestions like this?

  • I attended yesterday’s session on How to receive MARC records for your U.S. government document titles from OCLC.

• ELUNA learns 2024 - Alma Analytics

  • Includes session: Looking for Trouble: Using Alma Analytics To Find Problems in Your Catalog

Approve Homosaurus Project best practices

5 min.

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Questions:

• What happens after we approve the document?

• Shall we host an information session for all UC catalogers?

Review of the latest version of ETD MARC records from Mahjabeen

Verify if the result is satisfactory

30 min.

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Google Folder to the latest version of sample records: Files

Comments

Questions from Mahjabeen:

1. 024 with indicator 8 is expected to come before the indicator 7 or not or doesn’t matter?

2. The marc files don’t contain PQ URL. Would you like to have the url in 856?

3. For one of abstracts, the corrected doc file has edits for non-ascii characters. Can someone clarify. Here is the image of what I see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fGwfKD10A2R4COLFQ3KfBjC2zBS_vrE-/view?usp=drive_link

UCD’s display of 506

Check in on local data (if time allows)

5 min.

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W9veEVN1Fq73NezDzWLPLEc7f3F246KVVmwWI83uJVU/edit?usp=sharing

Parking Lot

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_pZKpvg4KKShzyqrbwqP2p8Cf0SkC_wlfgxxGo2UzM/edit?usp=sharing

Authority Control in the NZ

Total

50 min.