Technical Services Committee – April 27, 2023

Members Attending: Tammie Busch (co-chair) (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Susan Howell (co-chair) (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Jodi Craiglow (Trinity International University), Brent Eckert (Rock Valley College), George Gottschalk (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Robin Mize (University of Illinois Springfield), Lauren Noel (Columbia College Chicago)

Members Absent: Renata Schneider (DePaul University), Jackie Zook (Northeastern Illinois University)

CARLI Staff Attending: Jessica Gibson, Martin Kong, Jen Masciadrelli, Adrienne Radzvickas, Ted Schwitzner

Announcements

• CARLI Report and Announcements (Jen)
  • Please see CARLI newsletter that just went out for current news
  • If your term on this committee is expiring please volunteer if you wish to remain on the committee
  • Newly added OA collections in NZ (more in newsletter)
  • CARLI is in discussions with RAILS about Share More Illinois (more in newsletter)
• Committee Member Announcements
  • On April 4 Jodi successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations!

Continuing Business

Review and Approve March Minutes

The minutes were approved with correction that Robin Mize was in attendance.

Annual Projects

Update from CARLI on Best Practices document work

Ted presented the Cooperative Cataloging Policies for I-Share which was prepared by CARLI staff. He explained the philosophy and purpose of the document. Brent commented on a few specifics that needed clarification or rewording. Ted asked if the current version of RDA has an equivalent of AACR2’s “second level description”. No one knew for sure. Jodie asked if the document should be shared for public comment. That has not been the process in the past and the committee decided not to seek comment from outside the committee. Please review and provided comments and suggestions by May 12. Final approval of the document will happen at the next committee next meeting.

Follow up on 007 work

Brent reported that he corrected about fifty records for audio CDs at his institution. Tammie reported that she has done some work on this issue also.

Update from Jen on Ethical Cataloging Committee progress

Jen reported about the need to revise Tammie’s write-up of the committee’s work. Jen asked for volunteers to revise the document to make it into more of a statement document. Tammie volunteered. Jen will add information about Alma capabilities.

Update from Ted on Authority Control

Ted reported that there is no update.

Update from Jen on Connexion training survey

Jen reported that we didn’t get very many responses. Only nine people responded. Need to redistribute to get more responses. Jen will send it to the technical services email list to get more responses.

New Business

         None.

Assignments for Next Meeting

• Jen and Tammie will work on revising the ethical cataloging document
• Everyone should review the cataloging policies document and provide feedback by May 12
• Committee chairs need to write a summary of committee activity which is due by May 31

Upcoming Important Dates

• Next Tech Services Q&A: Wednesday, May 31, 2:00-3:30 PM
• Next TSC Meeting: Thursday, May 25, 9:30-11:00 AM

The meeting was adjourned at 10:38 AM.

Submitted by Brent Eckert