Sept. 16 2009 meeting minutes
1. CMS procedures for electronic books
CMS procedures do not yet reflect the provider-neutral policy changes, so we will wait to consider our procedures until they do.
2. URL validity
We do not have a definitive list of reliable sites--some like the UN usually keep a publication online somewhere but often change the URL, GoogleBooks has many detractors (and many of their links are not to full text but to ordering information), Internet Archive is probably stable but archives an unpredictable number of volumes for serials, U.S. federal sites are among the most changeable (and PURLS don't always keep track of the links).
The discussion was inconclusive about whether we should endeavor to create or bring in separate records for online versions which may not last. The policy we have agreed on dictates that we should look for existing records as we catalog, but we haven't decided which providers would merit that treatment, and we don't yet (see 1., above) have a cataloging procedure for those records.
What we have agreed on is that sites with only one or few volumes for serials will not be linked, unless those volumes are the most current or ones we do not own in tangible form. There was discussion on why some links only went to one volume--site not kept up, other links died, they were anomalies to begin with--and agreement that if we came across that situation we would modify the links or delete them.
3. Serial Set x-linking and form-in-catalog
We did not discuss x-linking serial volumes.
We agreed that "Serial Set" + number in the item record call number field would be all that was necessary to distinguish volumes.
4. Cataloging problem shelf full
Catalogers will each take some volumes from the shelf (and ask Carly to do some).
Other discussion, announcements
There aren't enough matching chairs for the meeting table. We might
not be able to get the red ones cleaned well enough to go out in the
public area.
The library will open earlier for staff on Sundays.
The laptops aren't all being returned properly--need to make
sure we're in Return mode, click in the box, and when we wand
in the barcode that the display actually indicates a return.
Suzanne offered the tip that if the barcode is shaded during
wanding (the overhead light confuses the wand), it takes fewer
swipes to make it register.
There are now ID badges to distinguish staff from students,
available in the file cabinet.
CMS procedures do not yet reflect the provider-neutral policy changes, so we will wait to consider our procedures until they do.
2. URL validity
We do not have a definitive list of reliable sites--some like the UN usually keep a publication online somewhere but often change the URL, GoogleBooks has many detractors (and many of their links are not to full text but to ordering information), Internet Archive is probably stable but archives an unpredictable number of volumes for serials, U.S. federal sites are among the most changeable (and PURLS don't always keep track of the links).
The discussion was inconclusive about whether we should endeavor to create or bring in separate records for online versions which may not last. The policy we have agreed on dictates that we should look for existing records as we catalog, but we haven't decided which providers would merit that treatment, and we don't yet (see 1., above) have a cataloging procedure for those records.
What we have agreed on is that sites with only one or few volumes for serials will not be linked, unless those volumes are the most current or ones we do not own in tangible form. There was discussion on why some links only went to one volume--site not kept up, other links died, they were anomalies to begin with--and agreement that if we came across that situation we would modify the links or delete them.
3. Serial Set x-linking and form-in-catalog
We did not discuss x-linking serial volumes.
We agreed that "Serial Set" + number in the item record call number field would be all that was necessary to distinguish volumes.
4. Cataloging problem shelf full
Catalogers will each take some volumes from the shelf (and ask Carly to do some).
Other discussion, announcements
There aren't enough matching chairs for the meeting table. We might
not be able to get the red ones cleaned well enough to go out in the
public area.
The library will open earlier for staff on Sundays.
The laptops aren't all being returned properly--need to make
sure we're in Return mode, click in the box, and when we wand
in the barcode that the display actually indicates a return.
Suzanne offered the tip that if the barcode is shaded during
wanding (the overhead light confuses the wand), it takes fewer
swipes to make it register.
There are now ID badges to distinguish staff from students,
available in the file cabinet.
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