Cataloging Committee Meeting Minutes
Monday, August 4, 2014 @11am (PDT)
(via telephone conference call)
Attending: Valeria Gardner (Ontario Comm.) Darlyne Johnson (Ontario Comm.) Beth Longwell (Sage ) Sarah Samuels –Chair (Hood River Co. LD) Barbara Telfer ( Dalles
The meeting was called to order at 11:05 am by Sarah Samuels.
Discussion /Approval June 2014 Cataloging Committee Minutes: Darlyne Johnson moved to accept the minutes as presented . Barbara Telfer seconded the motion. The minutes were approved as presented.
Hiring Sub-Committee Update
Beth Longwell gave an update on the hiring process. The committee is in the process of interviews of the 3 candidates. They are in the process of checking references. The decision will be made fairly quickly. There was going to be 4 candidates but due to certain circumstances there will only be 3. Sarah Samuels asked that the cataloging committee be updated on the progress of the hiring committee. Sarah Samuels thought the Sage Council needed to know who was approved.
RDA-Toolkit Subscription Status
Beth Longwell is working on the RDA subscription. The subscription needs to be for a group. When Beth Longwell sent the subscription and asked ALA for a quote. Limited users according to the price. We can do a trial subscription . Anyone can get on it and use it. Sarah Samuels wondered if 30 days was enough. Beth Longwell said if the trial did not have enough time that someone else could do a trial. ALA —we are just waiting for pricing. Beth Longwell did send cat. List server for trial subscription for the toolkit. Christina Trunnell was not available but has quotes so was not sure what they were. Beth Longwell will pursue the RDA subscription.
Regional Mentors
Information was sent out in the wiki. Where do we need more support—do we need to discuss more. Barbara Telfer finds that it is very handy to be able to contact . Sarah Samuels said we can check with Dea to make sure the list of mentors is updated. We will follow up from our last meeting.
Sarah Samuels asked if there was any more items to be discussed.
Beth Longwell talked about adding a Z area for grabbing source of records. We are to let Beth Longwell know if we need more information. Sarah Samuels asked if this would give us more ability to pull from more places , and increase more variety of sources.
They are doing a clean up on large print items.
Beth Longwell is pulling spread sheets by site—identity form will have D or not. Beth Longwell identified Bib number will go down 008 form D.
Meeting was adjourned at 12:20.
Next meeting will be October 6, 2014 11 am pacific time.