2020/08/21 Minutes

Present: Susan, Adrien (minutes), Dorothy, Linda, and Lewis

Group discussion about developing yearly goals

Updates:

Dorothy -- in-house scanning going well; no major problems; Matt Cook has some work that is intersecting with Houghton (many faculty requesting 3-D imaging of books); Dorothy will test out with a book on Monday; handwriting transcription with machine learning is producing good outcomes with cursive (good for accessibility and screenreaders); some pamphlets from digital project not fully cataloged; spoke on panel with bibliographic society on Dorothy Porter’s work; Florida DPLA webinars series on description/conscious editing, 3 parts

Linda -- clean-up of metadata is going well; work on Libguide on songsters versus song books; Jennifer is creating online forms for book corrections and book routing; subject heading analysis through Alma analytics

Lewis -- conversation around book routing form, accession records for gift book collections, Meg enjoyed orientation session; will initiate a weekly update to curators with physical activities

Adrien – metadata clean-up going well; single-item and end-processing manuals being revised; thinking through members of MS Section taking lead on a conscious/inclusive description clean-up project (Mrs. project, adding dealer information to provenance notes); reading group met to discuss Disrespect des Provenance; web archiving progressing with a test crawl; Joint Processing Guidelines Working Group developing meta principles for conducting reparative description programs; PUI taskforce will take on developing an ethos statement for Hollis for Archival Discovery