The
Prospector Cataloging/Reference Committee met at the Alliance office on
Thursday October 18, 2001 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Present were: Helen Reed,
Carol White, Lois Jones, Florence Jones, Joan, Beam, Judith Heck, Sandy
Arnesen, and George Machovec.
1. Announcements/ Minutes
The
next RMIUG Workshop will be held at the PASCAL storage facility on Thursday
November 8th. George will
forward registration information to the Alliance List.
George
announced that fiscal reconciliation is in process for materials lost through
Prospector. Jim Farmer and George will
have a working meeting next week to determine who owes whom and how much.
Minutes
from our last meeting on July 12th meeting were distributed.
George
announced that he had done a new Prospector training session for Colorado
College. Many of the current staff at
the library had never been trained on Prospector staff functions.
George
spoke with the individuals in charge of the Plus INN-Reach System. There are now four library systems live on
Plus: Jefferson County, Arapaho County, Aurora Public, and
Boulder/Louisville/Broomfield. Plus
will be implementing Advanced Keyword Searching.
A
firewall has been installed at the Alliance to help protect seventeen
servers. Prospector sits outside the
firewall. Prospector will be down on
Oct. 21st from 1-2 p.m. to change the default gateway and subnet
mask.
The
Committee was reminded to resend encoding level 3 and 4 records to Prospector. A library cannot send more than 10,000
records to Prospector at one time. DU
and Auraria have already sent their records.
UNC
is planning to load their Marcive government document records into their
catalog in November of this year.
2. Endeavor Status
George
hopes that Endeavor will have coding ready for libraries on the Endeavor
platform to participate in Prospector by November 29th. The circulation piece won’t be ready until
the end of April 2002.
3. netLibrary
netLibrary
is for sale. The company was unable to
get the venture capitol needed to go on with business as usual. Employees still with the company agreed to a
salary of $360 per week (the same as unemployment compensation). The Alliance will “wait and see” before
signing another contract with them. The
Alliance libraries own the data and
access to the e-books in perpetuity. If
netLibrary ceases to exist, OCLC has an archive of the data but we would need
to develop the necessary front-end software to access the e-books from OCLC..
Bill
Garrison has loaded the netLibrary MARC records on the INNOPAC at Norlin
Library. The records are dirty and
Norlin staff are editing each record.
Clean-up of the records includes:
call numbers (adjusting to match previous editions), correcting bad and
invalid subject headings, correcting inaccurate titles, multi-volume record
merger, and the addition of uniform titles for translations. All the records will have the necessary
authority control done, as well. They should be available for other libraries
to load by December 1st.
The set will be available via FTP through the Alliance. Each library will need to buy, create or
modify a loader to handle the records.
The loader must not strip the “nl” in the 001 or it will overlay an OCLC
record with the same number. It is not
yet known how updates to these records will be handled.
4. Release 2001
UNC
plans to migrate to release 2001 of INNOPAC software in November.
5. Prospector AVS
The
library directors will hold discussion of AVS (Advanced Searching Software) for
Prospector sometime next year. The cost
of the necessary INN-Reach software will be approximately $20,000.
6. Gold Rush
George
gave an update on progress with the Gold Rush database. The public version has been released and new
records are being added from e-journal and database aggregators. There are currently about 50,000 individual
serial titles in Gold Rush.
The
Committee approved the concept of re-executing a journal titles search in Gold
Rush from within Prospector. George
will create a mock-up screen for us to look at the next meeting.
7. Other
The
upcoming meetings of the Prospector Catalog/Reference Committee are:
November 15th at 1:00
p.m.
December 13th at 1:00
p.m.