Technical Services Committee Meeting

August 27, 2025

Members attending: Ellen Corrigan (Eastern Illinois University), Stephanie Fletcher (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Gail Heideman (Knox College), Kavita Mundle (University of Illinois Chicago), CJ Raich (Prairie State College), Leslie Starasta (Illinois State Library), Colleen Turkal (Principia College), Victoria Turner (Elgin Community College), Melissa Zilic (DePaul University)

Members absent: None

CARLI Staff attending: Jen Masciadrelli, co-liaison, and Ted Schwitzner, co-liaison

Guests: None

Announcements

• Minutes of the Jun 12 meeting were approved with a change from Golf of Mexico to Gulf of Mexico.
• The meeting started with the introduction of all members of the committee. Ted and Jen shared the links to related CARLI listservs, which members may join, and shared links to various Box Folders that the committee uses to post its documents.
• Melisa mentioned ICAMP, the Cataloging Mentorship Program sponsored by RAILS and Illinois Heartland Library System, is seeking mentor and mentee applications for the next cohort. The applications will open on Sept 2nd.  The program is looking for mentors with 5 years of experience and runs for 9 months. More info can be found

CARLI Announcements

• CARLI All Committees Meeting recording and slides can be found at All Committees Meeting
• The Annual report from TSC is available at FY25 Annual Report, pages 51-56, recapping all of the great work of the 2024-2025 Technical Services Committee
• CARLI Annual meeting will be held on Oct 21st.  This will be a 20th anniversary celebration meeting for CARLI. Scott Carlson as a speaker, networking ideas.
• Ann Craig is retiring, and her job posting was open until Aug 25th

Discussions

• The committee’s charge is available on CARLI’s website
•  Jen and Ted are CARLI liaisons to the committee and chairs. CARLI staff coordinates communication and sends meeting invitations. All official communication is sent through listservs. All members receive 1 3-yar appointment, and active participation from members is encouraged. 
• Members brainstormed ideas about hosting a “Table Talk” discussion/networking event at the CARLI Annual meeting in October.  Possible ideas/topics discussed:
  • Alternatives to OCLC membership options: how do we rethink NZ?
  • What does cataloging look like going forward?
  • Cost of ILL?
  • Reviewing current resource-sharing trends among libraries.

Continuing Business

• Programming: In-person event planning: One-day event with five presentations. A subcommittee will plan the program logistics, deciding the date, possibly in November before the holiday break, setting the agenda for the day, venue (possibly IIT campus), food options, and more. CARLI will provide financial support to host this program. The committee will ask for the volunteers.
• E-Resources:
  • CARLI has activated open access E-collections in NZ for all members. Pl see more information. The group will assess the completeness of the records and work with the brief record-level update.
  • The group is outlining the history of brief record rules for the network zone and ways to identify brief records. The group may have a committee to test things out. An email to the group was sent yesterday. More information is available here
• Reparative Cataloging: Stephanie volunteered to continue working with the reparative cataloging documents to improve library data. Further Authority behind this work? Which terms will be updated? Make this a democratic space. Identified a harmful language statement. So, people could acknowledge the problem and create a best practice document.
• Outreach: Victoria, Leslie, and Collen will work together to discuss next steps regarding the letter that was sent last year to a group of smaller libraries.

Decisions

• Ellen Corrigan and Kavita Mundle were selected as the Committee Co-chairs
• The Committee's monthly meeting schedule will be via Zoom on the last/4th Wednesday of the month from 10-12 noon.
• The Committee members will take the minutes in rotation, alphabetically by last name.
• The meeting was adjourned at 12:04 pm.

Tasks assigned

• The committee chairs will create an agenda in consultation with CARLI liaisons, Ted and Jen.

Meeting Dates and Deadlines

• Next Meeting: Sept 24, 2025, 10-12 noon via Zoom