What’s happening at your library?
Bobbi, Grand Forks Public – Things have been slow in cataloging as they have been dealing with Baker and Taylor going out of business. They have been creative in finding things to do, like re-numbering some items in non-fiction and fixing series that are half in mystery and half in regular fiction. They are still figuring out where to do their book orders.
Dustin, West Fargo Public – They are also doing a lot of side projects, more to do with the selectors not getting orders in on time or too many orders at one time. Specifically, they’ve been going through cookbooks and bumping the decimals out to a fourth place. This divides the cookbooks by ethnic foods, so the Italian cookbooks are together, and the French cookbooks are together. They have labels that have faded too, so they go around and try to replace labels as well. In more fun news they did get new carpets during the NDLA weekend. The carpet has enhanced the overall mood of the room.
Stacey, North Dakota State Library – They have some construction outside their windows with drain tile and dirt and stuff. Sometimes it gets really noisy, but they will be wrapping up soon. They are going to get 15 new book club kits, and they will all be juvenile fiction or young adult level.
Lauren, North Dakota State Library – She also has a lot of construction on her end at the moment.
Michele, ND Vision Resource Center – She was interested to hear people talking about fading labels because that is a big problem there. She has new books to catalog, which is very exciting because they don’t get new books very often.
Old items:
- Review of the Cataloging FAQ document - no additions or changes to the document were suggested, so Liz will add it to the ODIN website.
- 003 OCoLC field update – Liz has been removing 003 OCoLC tags from bibliographic records to prevent false OCLC numbers being added to bibliographic records when they are overlayed.
New items:
- Diacritics in bibliographic records – had a discussion of diacritics not printing correctly in labels. Also, a tip that you can copy and paste diacritics from another record into your record.
- Cataloging braille books questions
- 245 $h [braille] – discussed ways to update regular print to braille, adding 245 $h [braille] is okay.
- Enhance brief records for braille materials? Suggested ways to overlay the record with a fuller record. Liz and Michele will meet later.
- Multiple formats on one record – regular print, large print, braille, twin vision
- ODIN User Group elections coming in December