During the Freeze we’ll continue our ILS clean-up, and we’ll catalog in OCLC, says our Head.
Our people working on labeling are discussing where we want to put our decimal point: all on one line, 3365.6? or, one line = 3365, and the next line = .6?
UCLA:
Trying to reconcile all the IZ/NZ issues that are cropping up in the Acq-to-Cat workflow. (Biggest problem is that import profiles can only match on IZ or NZ, not both.)
Much hand-wringing about authority control.
Goal is to train people on very basic day 1 workflows before we lose access to our test database; then develop more robust training for after go-live.
RLF Configuration Task Force - hoping to delay survey until early 2022, since we don’t think people know enough about Alma/Primo functionality to answer questions about it until ~six months after go-live. (That would push decision until later in 2022.)
Thinking about holdings templates--does anyone know which fixed fields are important to code correctly in Alma? Any tips?
6XX fields: which ones do we love, which ones do we hate, which ones are we indifferent to?
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OCLC# in NZ
Can we require OCLC numbers in NZ bibs?
Both NRLF and SRLF have large stores of records with no OCLC numbers. Are they the exception and does RMFG want to formally ask that the RLFs prioritize that cleanup post-migration?
From Hermine:
SRLF has about 85K unsuppressed records without OCLC numbers.
Film and Television Archive has 45K unsuppressed records without OCLC numbers; they were hoping to add to NZ post-migration, but are ok with leaving them in IZ or pursuing reclamation.
I’d also like to talk about Acquisitions workflows. EOCR records (for Gobi, etc.) first come in with no OCLC numbers; then, later, acquisitions runs the update inventory import profile with the full records. If that is all done in the IZ, a follow-up job has to be done to link the records to the NZ, potentially losing some of that full data, if the existing NZ record is not full. BUT, doing it in the NZ could cause big matching problems, since it might rely on ISBN matching.
AEFG is currently testing that workflow for those reasons. There are a lot of complications with splitting EOCR (an other) on order imports b/t the IZ and NZ when it comes to the “update inventory” profile. AEFG has a question out to the SUNYs as well.
It’s probably about time for the RMFG/AEFG group to meet again to talk through some updates and see what the options are.
UCB: NRLF has questions about its records that lack OCLC numbers, and Fulfillment
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Best practices document
Review test load doc and see if we want to keep the same format