Waiting for COLD approval before proceeding with the proposed approach for addressing this problematic LCSH term.
NZ Cleanup update
October cleanup-- 85,394 e-resources records deleted, 35,241 physical resources deleted. NZ Management Group will meet soon to discuss whether we should perform the e-resources records cleanup more frequently. We’ll also explore other potential NZ management projects.
ULMS Survey - Resource Management
Israel shared the general input he received for filling out the Resource Management ULMS satisfaction survey. Among the general issues facing Resource Management:
Collection discovery is not localized in our consortium environment
Deduping vector in Primo could be refined for better and more precise deduping.
Alma terminology could be more clear, e.g. “copy to catalog” can mean either “copy to IZ” or “unlink from NZ”, depending on the context.
More precise conditions for advanced searching desired (for all indexes), e.g. does not contain, not equal to, etc
Upcoming BIBFRAME session
Jodi Williamschen from the Library of Congress will present an introduction and overview to BIBFRAME on Thursday, 11/14/19, 11-12pm. More details at this Thursday’s TS Open Forum. Many thanks to Luiz Mendes for coordinating this.
Authorities--Preferred term correction jobs and reports & Alma Authority Control Task List
The PTC job is running on several CSU campuses' Alma instances, as well as the NZ Alma instance.
Members were encouraged to become familiar with the PTC job and the Alma Authority Control Task List in preparation to discuss how we might use these for authority work.
Luiz is making arrangements to have Stephen Hearn from the University of Minnesota speak to us about Authority work in Alma. Details forthcoming as soon as they are available.