2018/11/30, Minutes

Present:  Adrien, Lewis, Linda, Susan

Summary:

  • Personnel
    • Please attend the Rare Book Cataloger candidate presentations and TS department meetings.
  • End-Processing
    • We made an offer for the three-month temp position. 
    • One-year project position to help with the renovation move paperwork has been sent to HR.
  • Manuscripts
    • Project archivist position already posted and the search committee formed (Adrien, Lewis, James, Christine, Jenny Gotwals)
    • Working on the job description for a two-year Creative Arts archivist position.
    • Susan has a meeting re: merging the ArchivesSpace working groups.
    • Adrien is working with LTS to do a bulk item record creation for archival collections.
  • Cataloging
    • Linda reminded that Isabel sent an email about a new procedure for reporting OCLC dups. Linda will turn the email into documentation for our wiki.
  • Aeon for TS tracking of new material- Lewis will send an email to TS staff about it. After it is test-driven, in two weeks Lewis will send out an announcement regarding the new procedure.
  • Budget
    • Susan is meeting Naomi regarding next years fiscal year budget.
  • Cataloging/Statistics
    • Susan, Vernica, and Linda are working on ways to record statistics in holdings records with more granularity; Susan will send out the draft procedures to TS Heads for comment.
  • Books Routing slip
    • A small Taskforce is meeting to determine what we need in a new Routing slip.
  • Born-digital sound recordings for Poetry- Lewis is revising them to be non-musical sound-recordings with Computer characteristics. Lewis and Linda will talk about ways to improve Poetry indexing.