Agenda:
What’s new in your library?
Dustin, West Fargo Public Library – West Fargo has opened a satellite branch. It is south of the interstate in a high traffic area right next to Costco. It shares a building with City Hall. Seems like it is doing well with smooth operations. They are also gearing up for summertime. Second graders have been coming through on their tours.
Michele, ND Vision Resource Center – She has just finished cataloging a bunch of large print books the State Library donated to them. Now she is working on a shelving project separating juvenile middle grade from your adult.
Stacey, North Dakota State Library – They have a new fiscal staff person who started yesterday. They bought 17 new book club kits, and there is just one left to catalog. As Michele mentioned, they weeded 1000 large print and 300 of those were beyond repair. They gave about 700 away- and that process is done and everybody should have their boxes of books.
Cindy, Dickinson Public Library – They are getting ready to be closed most of the month of May. They are pulling everything out of the basement and recarpeting, and then rearranging the basement. Because everything will be stored upstairs they will be closed to the public.
Old items:
- Shared Bibliographic Records in Polaris Guidelines
- Cindy thinks it is a great start, and it definitely could be expanded. Maybe come up with a list of questions that come up during cataloging. o Stacey mentioned that things were brought up verbally during migration, but it is good to have something to refer to.
- Michele said that as a new person she likes this document as a good start. She would like to see a list of best practices.
- Jessica said it would be interesting to create a document of questions that come up a lot like Michele’s question about publishers. It would be helpful because there are a lot of people who catalog who do not attend these meetings.
- We decided to bring additional things for the shared bibs guidelines and additional things for the FAQ / How to do it document to our next meeting.
- What fields do we want to have automatically deleted when records are added to Polaris? Review fields that Alma libraries automatically have deleted.
- The group discussed these fields. The group decided to add the 6XX fields with second indicator 3,4,5,6 to the Retain / Delete table to be deleted.
New items:
- PAC images for “library of things” and unique items – I’m still looking into this, but one option is to use services like ChiliFresh or Syndetics Unbound.
- https://chilifresh.com/solutions/coverart#upload
- https://proquest.syndetics.com/news/2023/08/17/librarian-recommends-cov…
- Michele is interested in getting images for her unique items into the PAC because they have a lot of them.
- Bobbi mentioned that they have a lot of things without images like Karaoke machine, memory boxes and stuff like that. She will check with patron services and see if this is something they are interested in doing. They have a large collection of Library of Things.
- Jessica thinks it would be great to images in the catalog for non-standard items. For their stem kits they put a link in the record to a libguide that describes it and has images.
- The group decided to refer this over to the PAC group.
- Polaris update 7.8 is supposed to be released in June, but the rumor is that it will be delayed. We are hoping to upgrade before school starts in the fall. Items of interest are that renewal counts will be added to item statistics, and the ability to manage import profiles in Leap.
Polaris tickets:
- Retain/Delete table- Leap is not observing this table, only Polaris Client
- System number copied to 035 with (OCoLC) prefix during overlay process
- Cindy has noticed this as well, and it seems like it happens with there is already a second 035 in the record.