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Technical Services Committee Meeting

February 14, 2024 – 1:00-2:30pm

Members Present: Tammie Busch, Co-Chair (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville); Ellen Corrigan (Eastern Illinois University); Brent Eckert (Rock Valley College); Stephanie Fletcher (Illinois Institute of Technology); Gail Heideman (Knox College); Susan Howell, Co-Chair (Southern Illinois University Carbondale); Lauren Noel (Columbia College Chicago); Jackie Zook (Northeastern Illinois University)

Members Absent: Jodi Craiglow (Trinity International University)

CARLI Staff Attending: Martin Kong, Jennifer Masciadrelli, Adrienne Radzvickas, Ted Schwitzner, Annie Serrano, Marisa Tolbert

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

CARLI Report & Announcements

  • Jen: CARLI has been absorbed with welcoming new libraries into the consortium; Jen also shared a link to the latest CARLI newsletter
  • Ted: still working out what to program for the CARLI Tech Q & A sessions; likely will not be a session this month or possibly through the end of June; however welcomes suggestions for topics

Committee Member Announcements

Discussions/Continuing Business

  • Minutes of the January 10, 2024 meeting were approved.

Sub-Committee Reports

  • Suggested Priorities Sub-Committee (Tammie):
    • The group is working through the long list of suggested priorities for maintenance
    • There are 4 separate new project categories; currently they are working on the OC project code which denotes ‘occasionally’ : they have completed work on OC1 to OC 5 (there are 20 separate sub-categories in this code)
    • The sub-committee will report back once they have gotten through the entire spreadsheet
  • Training Sub-Committee (Stephanie):
    • The group is planning to hold a training program on the World Share Record Manager: Gail has agreed to lead the session as she will have completed the training from OCLC; this will tentatively be held in April
    • The sub-committee is also interested in collecting training materials from consortium members and is thinking about where those documents might live on the CARLI website
    • Gail gave an update on the Cataloging Mentorship program through RAILS.  She has been given an invitation to find out more about the program and will report back.
  • Authorities Sub-Committee (Brent):
    • Ellen provided a summary of January’s session: half the committee was absent, so there wasn’t specific items to report; Ellen expressed interest in having more basic and/or practical training
    • Brent asked about the possibility of a training session on authorities as Stephanie had reached out about this; there was discussion about what content folks would like to see; Jackie expressed interest in learning as much as possible as she and her staff plan to join the NACO funnel; Tammie suggested that general training would be helpful including how to search for and correctly link to controlled headings, how to correctly format headings when no authorized form is present in the LCAF, etc.; Ellen echoed Tammie’s suggestions and stressed that basic procedures would be most helpful; Tammie had done a presentation years ago on Authorities in RDA and will send her notes to Brent; Stephanie will be copied on that so the official training sub-committee will support this; Ted reminded the group that CARLI has a central training calendar that keeps member services folks aware of events since they do a lot of the professional development programming; Ted also asked the committee to feel free to take over the tentative Tech Services Q&A sessions as well.  

New Business: None.

Other Business: None.

Tammie adjourned the meeting at 1:24pm and attendees entered into break-out sessions for their sub-committee meetings.

The next Technical Services Committee meeting will be Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 1:00pm on Zoom.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Lauren Noel.