Technical Services Committee Meeting

January 10, 2024 – 1:00-2:30pm

Members Present: Tammie Busch, Co-Chair (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville); Ellen Corrigan (Eastern Illinois University); Jodi Craiglow (Trinity International University; Stephanie Fletcher (Illinois Institute of Technology); Gail Heideman (Knox College); Susan Howell, Co-Chair (Southern Illinois University Carbondale); Lauren Noel (Columbia College Chicago)

Members Absent: Brent Eckert (Rock Valley College); Jackie Zook (Northeastern Illinois University)

CARLI Staff Attending: Martin Kong, Adrienne Radzvickas, Annie Serrano

Co-Chair Tammie Busch called the meeting to order at 1:00 pm.

CARLI Report & Announcements

• CARLI is closed on 1/15 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Introduction to CARLI for New Directors is on 1/17
• Technical Services Q&A is on 1/25
• Primo VE meeting about I-Share annual statistics is on 1/26
• The test load for new CARLI member libraries is in March

Committee Member Announcements

• Stephanie: Illinois Tech is hiring a Cataloging and Linked Data Librarian
• Tammie: SIUE will be hiring a new Library Dean soon

Discussions/Continuing Business

• Minutes of the December 13, 2023 meeting were approved.

Sub-Committee Reports

• Training Sub-Committee (Stephanie):
  • The group is interested in working with the Authorities Sub-Committee to develop a training session about authorities work.
  • The sub-committee is considering a program on OCLC WorldShare Record Manager and inquired about other librarians’ experience with this product; committee members have almost no experience with this product; Stephanie will email Ted to inquire if any CARLI libraries use it.
  • Another idea is to collect and publish training/curricular materials on the CARLI website; these would be materials about general cataloging procedures, not necessarily specific to Alma (selecting subject headings, building a call number, how to use LC classification, formatting labels, MARC record fields, etc.) and could be especially useful for libraries who are training new graduate student workers or entry-level catalogers; Tammie expressed interest in this project.
• Authorities Sub-Committee (Lauren):
  • The sub-committee may be interested in collaborating with the Training Sub-Committee on programming.
  • They will have a more complete update at the next meeting.
• Suggested Priorities Sub-Committee (Tammie):
  • The group is working through the suggested maintenance activities for bibs/items.
  • They are in the “new projects” category which is about halfway through.
  • The sub-committee will report questions and feedback to the full committee at the end of the project for discussion.

New Business: None.

Other Business: None.

Tammie adjourned the meeting at 1:23pm and attendees entered into break-out sessions for their sub-committee meetings.

The next Technical Services Committee meeting will be Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 1:00pm on Zoom.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Stephanie Fletcher.