Cataloging Meetings

2008 meeting

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Cataloging Agenda for November 2007 meeting 

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 cat-agenda-nov-07.doc

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Cataloging – Monthly Staff Meeting

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

2:00-3:00pm — Room 3015 

AGENDA

Old Business

1.    Special Projects: an update

  • Projects completed since last meeting
    • BCL damaged books
  • Projects started, will be ongoing
    • Withdrawal overflow being coded and moved to temporary storage (Daphnee, Dot, Susi)
  • Projects in process – expect to complete by December 2007
    • Spanish backlog (Kathleen, Gisella)
    • PLS withdrawals (Dot)
    • Update holdings in OCLC for ebooks (Cheryl) NEW
    • Japanese gifts (Peggy) NEW
  • Projects in process – expect to complete in 2008
    • Overlay new records into NovaCat for all of the anthologies which have been upgraded with Table of Contents data (Kathleen, Arlene) – expect to complete by March 2008 NEW
    • AP book plates for FY07-08 (Cheryl, student assistants) – expect to complete March 2008
    • Genealogy – expect to complete December 2008 (Peggy, Arlene, Daphnee, Cheryl, Susi)
    • Serials Holdings Project (Peggy, Cheryl, Gisella, student assistants) – expect to complete December 2008

New Business 

2.    Future of Cataloging

  • Overview (Susi)
  • New Cataloging Standards/Technology – everyone selected 1 topic, and will write a 1-2 page summary, which we will load onto the departmental wiki
    • RDA: Resource Description and Access – Kathleen
    • FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data) – Dot
    • FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology – Peggy
    • Automatic classification schemes – Gisella
    • VuFind (a library resource portal) – Arlene
    • Widgets – Cheryl

 3.    Developing Cataloging Web 2.0 skills

  • Cataloging Topics – everyone will choose one topic, and blog about what they learn:
    •  Web Conferencing Services – Daphnee
    • Managing Virtual Library Collections using e-metrics – Susi
    • Cataloging Blogs – Arlene
    • Who’s talking about NSU?
    • Thumbcasts
    • RSS Feeds for Cataloging – Kathleen
    • How are libraries using tagging in their OPACs? – Dot
    • Podcasting – Cheryl
    • Instant Messaging – Gisella?

4.    Procedures Manual, latest updates etc.  

5.    Matters from the floor  

Next meeting – November 21st at 2pm in room 3015

1 Comment »

  1. gisellahernandez said

    ~Just want to mention that I will be in charge to find out about “LIBRARY THING FOR LIBRARIES” instead of Automatic classification schemes; in addition to that, I will be doing the assignment for “INSTANT MESSAGING” as well.

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