2021-02-23 Meeting notes

Updates (please add in advance)

10 mins

All

Liz:

• Tentative PPC guidance for decision deadlines

  • mid-April for data migration

  • June for workflows

• New special fiscal close session added for March 25

Jean: Berkeley asks that in each new document or spreadsheet, we spell out acronyms and initialisms, every time, somewhere in the doc. As a footnote perhaps, or at each first use in the doc… (Like RACI [although Lynne Grigsby of Berkeley said “Oh, IT people use that one a lot, so we all know it…”] and like all the other not-completely-familiar-yet groups and so on). Everything is new and sometimes hard, and we need all the clarity we can easily get.

Test Load comments

20 mins

Jean: Berkeley is indeed timing its Test Load! I was wrong.

UCLA:

• Accidentally loaded some suppressed records into NZ because I forgot about 019s being changed to 035 $z--sorry!

• Multi-match report contains only about 2K records, yay. Created a spreadsheet; could be helpful to other campuses, since the problems are generally caused by other records containing a deprecated OCLC number in the 035 $a.

Testing documentation

20 mins

Jean: About the Working Inventory for ITG spreadsheet (if this column is the correct spot for this comment): Berkeley is meeting again on Th., Feb. 25 to go through it line by line, so I won’t have much more input during systemwide RMFG Tue. meeting. I hope it can wait for Berkeley’s work, as I don’t recall a hard deadline.

ETDs

10 mins

TSELG has asked us to look at possibly standardizing the MARC fields that are included in Merritt records, let’s start with an inventory of fields your campus needs and where they come from

OCLC daily updates

Continue discussing questions/concerns/thoughts around OCLC updates

20 mins

Please/please can we all name this “WorldCat Updates”? and change the name of the document too. My local colleagues talked about this again, and want to be so precise in this new consortium. Respectfully, JD.