2019-06-10 Meeting notes

Documentation (Policies and Procedures)

Completing the review of policies and best practices and finalizing additional “How-to” procedures.

Group Reports

ULMS TS Monthly Release Testing Group

• Submitted report and recommendations to the Committee. The Committee supports the recommendation that the Group should continue to remain as a subgroup that reports to the Resource Management Functional Committee to work on behalf of all technical services Functional Committees. Report and recommendations to be included in the Committee’s Report. Group members agreed to continue to serve on this Group. Upcoming tasks: Christina Hennessey will perform fiscal year end close on behalf of the consortium for both Sandboxes and Jessica will do the same on behalf of the consortium for the NZ Sandbox

NZ Management Group

• Continues to perform tasks related the management of records in NZ (daily OCLC record loads; troubleshooting and resolving record problems identified; and responding to inquiries from campuses). Group Members agreed to continue to serve on this Group. Upcoming tasks: Quarterly cleanup of records in the NZ.

ULMS Summer Training

Proposed three sessions and identified presenters. Sessions include: (1) Cataloging E-Books (Title-by-Title) Workflows vs. ProQuest E-Book Central Integration; (2) Exchange of Best Practices (Pros and cons of our approaches, procedures); and (3) Record Selection & How Has Alma Transformed Your Workflows? For the Committee meeting session, Groups will also provide updates (review of recent Alma releases; etc.)

Final Report

Draft report highlighting activities of the Committee to be submitted to the ULMS Coordinating Committee.