Agenda:
What’s new in your library? Questions?
- Grand Forks Public Library – Lori is busy right now, there is a surge of new books at the end of the year.
- North Dakota State Library – They have a fun, interesting cataloging project coming up. The State Library is using ARPA money to purchase 10 book vending machines that will be placed in areas throughout the state that have little library service. Each machine will be filled with about 400 books, and they are buying the first two waves of them. In the next two months they will see about 8,000 books come in. It will be an interesting and exciting project for Jessica and Stacey. The first 4,000 books will be two capsule collections of 5 copies of each book. So, two groups of 5 vending machines will have the same collections. Then the second wave of books will be 5 capsule collections.
- Dickinson Public Library – They are slowing down right now, their budgets have been spent. Cindy has been keeping busy doing cleanup.
Ongoing topics:
- Serial holdings statements – the workflow demonstrated at the last meeting didn’t work out for the State Library. It created a serial item that duplicated an existing item record. Jessica noted that if they changed the original item record so it would be part of the holdings statement it placed the item out of order. The patron services director decided that it was better to have the incorrect holdings statement and to keep the item records in order. She noted that some libraries are not using a pattern for serial holdings, and in those cases NDSL’s holdings statement is displaying for those libraries. Example, North Dakota Blue book in Bowman library’s opac is showing NDSL’s holdings. There was some discussion about suppressing the holdings statement from the brief records in the pac. When you click on the availability section on the pac there is another holdings statement that may be just for that library which would be more accurate. It might be worthwhile to suppress it from the brief records in the pac. Talk about it with your coworkers to see what they think.
New items:
- Articles when using the Title search in Polaris- if the 2nd indicator for the nonfiling characters is wrong, you cannot search by title. Keyword will work. Liz did bulk changes to fix any tieles with incorrect filing character codes.
- Liz deleted the streaming videos from Polaris that were removed from OverDrive.
- Audience- When cataloging adult items (especially those that could upset certain segments of the community) to verify the 008 / 22 is correct. See “PAC Browsing” document. Polaris really makes it easy to see the intended audience for materials. Dickinson has been checking the catalog and cleaning up the ones that they find.
- Endorsement of ICOLC Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries (https://icolc.net/statements/icolc-statement-metadata-rights-libraries)- the group discussed this statement and was encouraged to discuss it with their directors before the next OAC meeting.
- When should our next meeting be held? – Decided to keep to 4th Thursday of every other month.