June 16, 2022, 2:00pm

Agenda/notes

March 17, 2022, 1:00pm

Agenda/Notes

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• Review of past action items
  •  Action items from 4/6/20
    
    •  Amy will send decision on OCLC Registry (re HLS address) to Allison and Karen
      Discussion Notes:
      While Amy was unable to join us for the December meeting, those in attendance discussed the background correspondence from Robin Wendler below.  The group agreed that given our past practice of not embracing brevity in our naming OCLC symbols, that we could simply concatenate the names associated with the two symbols being consolidated, and call it: "Ernst Mayr Library of Comparative Zoology & Botany Libraries" for maximum clarity.  We agreed that the address for MCZ would be most appropriate to use, since of the two libraries, MCZ will likely be more active with Resource Sharing.
• Status discussion regarding reimplementation of OCLC Bib Notification Service (BNS)
  Michelle inquired about the possible timeline for resuscitating BNS, knowing that LTS resources are scarce for projects.  Laura expressed that ReCAP and BD Shared Index projects are active projects that would take prescidence. The latter project does not have a hard timeline yet, so an estimate to completion is difficult to determine.

  The group discussed pre-work to the BNS project that might be done by others outside LTS. That could include analysis of the current OCLC service and developing a greater understanding of what would need to be added to protect our records more than previously. (To avoid such debacles as the "Winnie the Pooh" etc. incident)

  The OCLC service is now called WorldShare Record Manager and is a completely new architecture than the former BNS service, so it would be a whole new service implementation, even though some of the shared rationale and background work with the HL community that the prior BNS Working Group did would still have value.  Scott suggested that we should look at what peers are doing with OCLC and Alma, including what Penn is doing and what Minn is (Laura will inquire with Betsy at Minn before she retires at the end of the month).  We will revisit topic in new year when we review project list.

• Hathi Trust ETAS - renewals policy.  Is there anything we can do to renew items that were checked out at the time of shut down? We are not assessing fines so there is no financial impact but the overdue notices are stressful for users. Could alter the text of the notices to let people know that if their items are in ETAS they will not be able to renew them. Big push for the Sept. 10 due date is now done.”
  Discussion Notes:
  The group discussed how we can facilitate renewal of HathiTrust titles that have been prevented from renewal at this time. We decided to could turn off the "do not renew" flag for ETAS.
  

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