Agenda:
What’s new in your library? Questions?
- Grand Forks Public Library – Getting ready for the summer reading program, both in the adult and children’s sections. The children’s section is weeding their foreign language and getting new. Weeding is always ongoing, Lori has weeded 12,000 items since January.
- North Dakota State Library – gearing up to do a pretty substantial weed of their large print collection. They can’t sell their books as a state agency, so when they weed a collection the best thing that they can do is give them to public and school libraries in the state via lottery.
- West Fargo Public Library – Also continuously working weeding, and trying to get other departments to weed more because the stacks are always full. Gearing up for summer, but they don’t have to worry about that much in their office.
New items:
- FAST subject headings discussion – From the listserv discussion it sounded like everyone is deleting them. Jessica remembered a discussion about them from long ago and that they could not be suppressed from the OPAC so they were deleting them. Liz was at a demo of a statistical product last month that used the fast headings to monitor usage trends in the collection, so there could be some usefulness to them in the future. She also found instructions on suppressing the headings from the pac in the support portal. Jessica said that if they could be suppressed that would be a good solution, she would also like to see what the discovery group thinks. Lynn said that if it looks good, she can show it during the next discovery meeting which is May 8 at 10am. She will share the meeting invite with the cataloging listserv.
- Demo of the Weeding workflow in Leap – Liz demonstrated the weeding workflow in Leap.
- Extracting OCLC numbers from a set of records can be done in Simply Reports.