What’s happening at your library?
Amy, NDSCS: HLC on NDSCS campus 4/14 & 4/15 NDSCS OTA has interim accreditation – Library assisted by providing supplemental resource list & NDSCS Dental has accreditation visit next week Campus Activities Board is hosting an event in the Library on 4/24 (plants/stress relief)
Ben, Valley City State University - Last week they had a series of events for National Library Week. Several were in conjunction with Valley City Barnes County library, opportunities for students to register for public library cards for example. Next week they will be brainstorming and preparing for campus strategic planning.
Phyllis, Trinity Bible College and Graduate School - Somebody gave a large amount of money to the library, and she found out that they will be receiving some of it this year. All together the amount will be about $500,000 for the library. The first thing they will be doing is replacing all the windows. There will be some remodeling downstairs and getting three study rooms. In three weeks there will be graduation and they will be graduating 9 students with their doctoral degrees. These will be the first Theology doctorates awarded in the state of North Dakota.
Lisa, Bismarck State College – The library held a Comic Con conference for National Library Week, over 200 people participated. There was Mario Kart racing and trivia, some pottery wheel set up so people could create some pottery. There were art exhibitions of student art, graphic novel stuff, and a bake sale. She has been working on a project for the foundation regarding football alumni. They had a football program from 1948-1985 and she is going through documents to identify all the men who played football.
Patty, Minot State – They have registration at the library and last week they had 142 students and their parents and guests, so it was over 300 people. They had their 4th annual Easter Egg Hunt in the library, and they got some really terrific prizes donated by businesses around town.
Kelly, Mayville State – After the ODIN workday that Ben did on inventory, she started that project with student workers. She recently returned home from the Higher Learning Commission Conference in Chicago.
Drew, University of North Dakota – The library hosted the UND Faculty Scholarship in Creative Works Celebration. Recognizing all the works that the UND faculty have done over the past year or so. It got a really good turnout. They have been doing a lot of strategic planning.
Linked Open Data
- As part of the Alma 2025 Roadmap Webinar Series, there are two sessions about Linked data: April 22, Linked Data Developments in 2025, and May 6 Linked Data Enrichment. See this site to register: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Materials/010Roadmap/A…
- Linked Data Enrichment Configuration for MARC Records Update o I sent questions to Ex Libris attached
- I recommend waiting until after the May 6th webinar to decide how to set this up in the NZ.
Change of COUNTER from 5 to 5.1
- A separate account in Alma is necessary for harvesting reports in 5.1. Ex Libris plans to add the 5.1 data to the Release 5 folder in the Usage subject area.
- https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Knowledge_Articles/Alma_Compli…
- Instructions on setting up SUSHI account harvesting: https://www.odin.nodak.edu/training/resource-management/sushi-harvestin…;
Kelly and Amy AI announcement
- Amy and Kelly are part of the emerging technology ODIN group and it is focused on AI right now. What they would like to do at our next meeting is talk about AI, and bring to the meeting what you’re seeing about AI in the technical services area. Try to keep a little folder and write things down, that would be helpful. If there is something that you heard about, bring it to the meeting and the AI group will take a look at it.
Open Discussion Items
- NZ guidelines
- Had discussion of the NZ guidelines. Decided to make it official that no brief records or records without OCLC numbers should be saved to the Network Zone. If anyone has any additional information for the guidelines send to Liz. She will send the updated version to the listserv again before our next meeting. Kelly suggested that once they are adopted we should review them every year to remind ourselves of the guidelines.
- Widgets- Do people have any widgets that they would recommend to other libraries? Liz did a quick demo of turning a report into an analytics object, and creating a widget for the home screen in Alma.
- Kelly mentioned that it is difficult to find the time to set up things like SUSHI and widgets.
- Cloud apps- Is anyone using one that they find helpful?
- Phyllis uses the Hathi Trust cloud app to add URLs linking to the Hathi Trust to their records. She finds it really helpful.
New Meeting Invites – I’ll be sending out new invites, is 2pm on the 2nd Monday on a bimonthly basis still working for everyone? Based on responses to the poll, three people would come if the meeting was at a different time. So Liz will send out a new poll to schedule the next meetings.