Minutes
The Prospector Cataloging/Reference Committee met at the Alliance office on Thursday December 13, 2001 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Present were: Lois Jones, Helen Reed, Florence Jones, Judith Heck, Cynthia Wilson, Sandy Arnesen, Joan Beam, Carol White, George Machovec, and Bill Garrison.
Committee Membership Changes – This was the last meeting for the 2001 committee membership. George Machovec will announce the new committee members via email before the end of the year.
Denver Public Library has a new branch library (Schlessman Family Branch) whose records were showing up in Prospector and causing borrowing problems. Those records are now masked from public view and will not display or be “borrowable” until the branch library opens to the public.
Sandi Westall at Innovative Interfaces, Inc. called and introduced a new head of the INN-Reach Department. His name is Tim Auger and he replaces Anne Rakes as head of that department. Tim can be reached via email at tauger@iii.com.
George spoke with Brenda Bailey concerning the integration of Prospector with the Colorado Virtual Library. At the present time a button can be added to each system to allow a search to transfer to the other system but the systems cannot transfer requests from one system to the other. The INN-Reach system was developed before national standards were in place, so it is a proprietary system. Until it becomes standards based, document requests cannot move from Prospector to Colorado Virtual Library and vice versa.
Endeavor – There has been no news since last month. George will meet with Jane Burke at ALA Midwinter and report back to the committee at the January meeting.
NetLibrary – OCLC lent $2,500,000 to netLibrary. The company is continuing to add new books, but at a slower rate than they were adding them last summer. By mid-January, OCLC should own netLibrary. The Alliance will wait until the change in ownership is complete before deciding how to move forward with the company. In the meantime, Bill Garrison is continuing to clean up the netLibrary bibliographic records.
There has been no update from Innovative on the MARC 856 URL bug. George will send a message to Tim Auger about this problem.
UNC installed release 200 in late November and went to AVS searching December 12th.
The committee decided this is such a big issue that we need to have a separate meeting to discuss the issues. Several subtopics surrounding this issue that should be discussed are:
· Multiple vs. single records
· Location of URL information
· Government Documents
· Public Display notes (|z of the URL)
· Authentication issues
· Years of coverage
· URLS for different vendors or Open URLs
· What kind of access points should we give for a title i.e. 246
· Use of 006 and 007 MARC tags
· Non III libraries – implications for Prospector
· ISSNs – how they index in Prospector
· National trends – look at CONSER, OCLC, etc. Search the literature.
Judy Kuhagen from the Library of Congress will be in Boulder sometime this fall to discuss the revised AACR II Chapter 12. Should we ask her to talk with the Prospector Cat/Ref Committee?
The next Committee meeting will be held January 29, 2002. It will be the first meeting of the new committee. The February meeting will be an all day meeting with the morning devoted to electronic resources best practices.
The committee decided that there would be an informational link from one system to the other. Searches must be re-keyed in each system, because the indexes work differently in Prospector than they do in Gold Rush.
George Machovec and other Alliance staff have been visiting libraries demonstrating Gold Rush. He asked the Prospector Cataloging/Reference Committee to deal with Metadata issues for Gold Rush rather than establishing a separate committee.
There will be a focus group session in January on the staff side of Gold Rush. Gold Rush will be developed keeping national standards in mind.
Lois will send George and Helen an email message to let them know if DU Law has moved to release 2001.
George distributed three charts showing Prospector reconciliation for lost books.
Judith Heck was thanked for her two years of service to the committee.
Minutes
Submitted by Sandy Arnesen
January
29, 2002