2024-09-12 Meeting notes

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• UCD:

  • Began to recruit for a Cataloging Specialist with Chinese language expertise (job posting)

• UCSD:

  • Despite our hiring pause, we got approval to recruit for an assistant director of Metadata Services. We hope to post the job ad in the next couple of weeks

  • OCLC changed their SFTP so it now requires SHA-224 connections and as a result, Alma is not able to connect and get the WorldCat update files. Gem asked me to submit a help request to OCLC since we are using the CUS account for the files. She is now trying get it sorted out between Ex Libris and OCLC. No files have been loaded since 9/6.

  • Does anyone use the Auto-transliterate fields function for Arabic and Persian in Connexion? Do you find it to be accurate?

    • UCM reports that they tried it and it wasn’t accurate. They worked with a faculty member instead.

• UCB:

  • New document: Holdings record field coding

  • Working to schedule all vendor imports, including scheduling jobs to link records to the NZ

    • What is the criteria for linking a record to the NZ?

• CMCKG: Completing final review of Homosaurus Project Best Practices; will come to RM-OST for approval.

• UCM: Latasha accepted a metadata librarian position at Stanford so this will be her last meeting. Congratulations, Latasha!

• @Ryan Finnerty to email Hermine so she can ask the UCLA Arabic and Persian catalogers if they use that Connexion feature.

• Please look over the Homosaurus Best Practices before our next meeting

Feedback Requested for Expanded NZ Access Proposal

Finalize our group response and comments

30 min.

• RM copy of NZ Principles

  • SCP is concerned that they were not included from the beginning on this proposal since they are the primary stakeholders. SCP has submitted their comments separately.

• RM copy of NZ Account Request

• We should say that there are mixed feelings in the group when we submit our comments.

• CDL feels that their concerns need to be addressed first before this can go forward.

@TJ Kao will take our comments and send along to the SILS Operations Team.

Production of GovDoc records after MARCIVE’s closedown

Explore how to get MARC records for GovDocs from 2025

10 min.

• MARCIVE is closing down by the end of December (announcement)

• https://www.fdlp.gov/catalogingandclassification/sources-of-gpo-cataloging-records

• Possible alternative: WorldShare Collection has a U.S. Government Documents - Electronic collection (219,934 titles as of 2024-09-09)

• There is a webinar from OCLC about how to receive MARC records from them.

• We should wait for a while to see how everything settles and what options emerge.

• Consider attending this webinar from OCLC. Register for the webinar

Parking Lot

Alma CDI Link Matching Process Issues

Authority Control in the NZ

ETD records

50 min.