Agenda: What’s new in your library? Questions?
- Grand Forks Public Library – they have had a lot of retirements. They have a new cataloger, Audrey Jones. They have changed offices and moved things. They have a new system to see if it flows better.
- North Dakota State Library – Stacey went through the STEM kits and made sure everything that was supposed to be in the folders and stuff was in there and added a QR code to the folders and boxes that link to LibGuides. The LibGuides have instructions for using the kits and sometimes a how-to video. Jessica is doing a massive weed in the Federal Documents area. Probably the first time in about a decade. They’ve weeded about 3000 items which makes it look so much better and much fresher. Federal documents are tricky because you need to make sure they are either rehoused or recycled properly.
- Dickinson Public Library – They are hiring a new bookmobile librarian soon. The library board has implemented a policy where the library will create a classics collection that is “unweedable.” There will be an adult and a children’s one. They are trying to determine how they are going to decide on what goes into the collection.
- West Fargo Public Library – they are in the process of moving more shelves and expanding the Large Print collection. Also chugging along with regular things. Dustin has been auditing the junior nonfiction collection to verify DDC and standardized format.
Old items:
- Suppressing subject headings in the PAC- if they are suppressed, are they still searchable? What subjects should still be deleted from records?
- Tags that will display: 600, 610-11, 630, 650-651 with indicator 2 =0-2 and 690.
- Yes, suppressed headings are searchable in both the PAC and in Polaris.
- What subjects should still be deleted?- Jessica still does delete the ones that are in a foreign language. Because they don’t really have a purpose in the record. Stacey has stopped deleting them. Bobbi usually deletes the foreign language ones too.
New items:
- Item record purge update.
- Polaris colors update (and frustration).
Authors subfields out of sequence- in 2022 the ZMARC authorities load flipped the sequence in the 100 and 700 fields. Like this:
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- About 150 records with 100s need to be fixed, and 193 records with 700s need to be fixed. The authority records are already switched back, but that didn’t update the bibs. Liz is in the process of fixing these records.
- Simply Reports – checking for errors with an item list report
- went over how to create a report and use it to check for errors.
- You can request any report that you find helpful to be delivered to you on a schedule. We have more flexibility with scheduling now.
- When you log in to Polaris or Leap you get a confirmation pop-up that reminds you that you are logging into production (live environment). Is this necessary? And would you mind if ODIN removed this pop-up? All are fine with it being removed. One less click.