2023-10-26 Meeting notes

Attendees

  • @Adam Baron (notes)

  • @Marcia Barrett

  • @Catherine Busselen

  • @Shi Deng

  • @Ryan Finnerty

  • @TJ Kao , Vice Chair

  • @Yoko Kudo

  • @Cathleen Lu

  • @Latasha Means

  • @Hermine Vermeij, Chair

  • @Sarah Wallbank (Unlicensed)

Item

Desired Outcome

Time

Who

Notes

Decisions

Actions

Item

Desired Outcome

Time

Who

Notes

Decisions

Actions

1

Updates/announcements (Please add in advance)

Share information

10 mins

All

Start recording!

Hermine (UCLA)

  • FYI: supposedly the Primo CJK character indexing problem will be “fixed” in the December release.

Adam (UCB)

  • Update: Other institutions have also reported problems with viewing large itemized sets. Ticket is with Development and has been changed to a High Priority.

Shi (SCP)

  • MARCIVE cleanup

    • About 300 e-resources using print version records were cleaned up.

  • GOBI records

    • Identified significant gaps in Springer records received from GOBI

    • Instead of annual reconciliations, will complete reconciliations quarterly

    • GOBI catalogers are given 30 days to catalog English titles and 45 days for non-English titles

    • Expect 2 month delay from when titles are available on Springer platform before the records are available in UC Library Search

 

@Shi Deng Notify campuses with holdings on the updated MARCIVE records
2

Review action items

Check in on action items

5 mins

All

Task Report - Resource Management - SILS

 

 

3

Expanded NZ Access Proposal

Decide on next steps

15 mins

Hermine

DRAFT Proposal for Expanded NZ Access

  • ERES and OARM-PT have made comments/additions.

Remove “Running normalization jobs on sets of records”; the current process of submitting tickets to CDL is working.

@Hermine Vermeij Finalize the Proposal for Expanded NZ Access and send to RM-CMOS, ERES, and OARM-PT Nov 1, 2023
Everyone: Review final Proposal for Expanded NZ Access Nov 9, 2023
@Hermine Vermeij Send Proposal for Expanded NZ Access to OT Nov 16, 2023
4

Local notes in NZ

Decide how to proceed to fix TOC overflow 590s

Determine if we want to enable the 590 restriction in production

15 mins

All

Local notes in NZ (physical) (physical items)

Ideally, we would like to get updated reports periodically (e.g., monthly)

 

@Hermine Vermeij Rerun Local notes in NZ (physical) report and send to RM-CMOS
@Hermine Vermeij Work with Gem to update configuration to restrict editing 590 fields on production (after clean up is complete)
5

November release

Mostly FYI

5 mins

All

https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2023/Alma_2023_Release_Notes?mon=202311BASE

https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Training/Release_Highlights_Videos/77_Alma_2023_Release_Highlights_Videos?mon=All

  • Linked Open Data Enrichment for SpMaBN Vocabularies

  • Authority record searches can include data in subdivisions

  • 546 to be added to Notes index

  • Itemized sets of physical and electronic titles can be created using files of MMS IDs

  • Option to append to existing Note field in the Change Physical Items job

  • Jobs can be run on physical holdings sets

  • Bibliographic rank added to CZ collections

  • Mapping tables now have titles and are searchable!

 

  • How do campuses share updates locally?

    • UCSC reviews the updates and sends out

    • UCB functional area leads meet to discuss

 

 

6

Dashboard of problems

 

 

 

  • Catherine demonstrated Alma Analytics dashboard for cataloging maintenance

    • PID Finder

    • Gift Note Errors

    • Empty Item Policy

    • Language of Cataloging Not English

    • Holdings with 852 First Indicator #

    • Ceased Serials with Recurring Renewal Orders

  • Ryan has setup widgets or has reports emailed to him

    • Nx and Ox Cutters are set each week for items that have been returned

Would be a great UC-wide RM session

  • Catherine and Ryan would be willing to present

  • Will aim for early 2024

@Shi Deng Check with Gem to she if she is using a dashboard to monitor problems
Plan for UC-wide session on problem dashboards Jan 18, 2024
7

Authority control

Start discussion (if time)

5 mins

All

Brain dump of background: Authority Control in the NZ

Next steps?

 

Everyone: Review and add any campus perspectives to Authority Control in the NZ
8

Additional discussion

 

5 mins

 

 

 

 

9

Parking Lot

 

 

 

Alma CDI Link Matching Process Issues

 

 

10

 

Total

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