2017-12-18 Meeting notes

• NZ Management Group
• Meeting with OCLC (Chancellor's Office)
• NoCal Technical Services Meeting (January 26, 2018 in SJSU)

780/785 Fields in CZ records which include only CZ record number and no data value content (i.e., absence of title in $t). Example: Journal of American Culture (Online).

• Update: San Marcos had opened a case back in 2015. Ex Libris indicated this was part of their road map. Suggested approach: Report problem to Ex Libris on behalf of the consortium one more time.

Normalization Task Force

• Renorm job (last renorm of the year): Renorm 2017-D
• Will start looking at workflow for members of the Task Force to develop and provide training for members of the Task Force for creating and/or revising norm rules.

TS Open Forums: Training Topics and Trainers

• Tools (Book be Gone; Storage)
• Cataloging in Alma
• Data Cleanup Projects: Tips & Tricks
• Database record maintenance (troubleshooting selection of records; moving holdings, etc.)
• Serials Prediction Pattern (Serials Management in Alma)
• MARC Holdings Revisited
• Marcive Documents without Shelves (Workflows, Management)
• WorldCat Cataloging Partners (Efficiencies, Duplication of Records, etc.)
• Assessment of TS Workflows (Efficiencies in Process and Procedures)
• Workflows for audio-visual resources (ordering)
• Records for E-books
• Use of indication and norm rules

Consult Acq/ERM Functional Committee for additional topics and trainers for issues related to acquisitions and electronic resources management.

To sign up for 2018, see Tech Services Presentations.