What’s happening at your library?
- Valley City – Valley City and University of Jamestown libraries are conducting an “Employee Summer Reading Challenge.” Faculty and staff submit books that they have read, and they get extra points for reading using the Libby app. So far, they have received over 250 submissions. The losing school’s library staff will have to wear the opposing school’s colors for a day. Valley City is also using the summer to catch up on projects and to work on documentation.
- University of North Dakota – This year they have been working hard on cutting things to save money, and now they need to spend the money that they saved in the next few weeks. They have purchased new ebooks, databases, and journal packages. They need to get those squared away with licenses and accessibility requirements which they are trying to do before the 30th of June. They have also been working on the state documents project checking links after migration, and getting all the state documents that they have cataloged. There are only a few boxes of things left. It is exciting to be close to finishing the project. Federal documents have changed how they are doing things, but UND has developed a process for them using OCLC WMS, and they are cataloging virtually all federal documents.
- University of Jamestown – Danita has been working on weeding curriculum library books, like K-12 textbooks.
- Bismarck State College – They too have been buying and cataloging ebooks to spend end-of-year funds. They have a shelf reading project in the main stacks, which in turn creates requests for new replacement spine labels. They also have a project to withdraw a lot of their music compact discs.
New Topics:
- Physical Item Templates – Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fs-AhJCrxA Liz did a quick demo of physical item templates. Liz didn’t think this template was available to use with the acquisitions process.
- Adding an Open Access indication to local records – Add 506 0_ $$f Unrestricted online access $$2 star (no punctuation such as periods) This adds the unlock indicator in Alma and Primo VE, and the Open Access filter
- June release: OTB dashboards-
- Title level overlap analysis dashboard, added new tab: “Bibliographic Records Committed to Retain.”
- Physical Items dashboard, added new tab: “Physical Items Committed to Retain.”
Open Discussion
- Merging records or overlaying records
- NDAC OverDrive consortium – we planned to revisit how users were finding items and checking them out. Kelly reported that there were about 6000 checkouts between all the member libraries, and 5578 of those checkouts were from the Libby app, and 658 came from the website.