2021/04/16 Minutes

Susan reported that SMG was thinking about fall restart.

The TS Department will start working on FY22 goals this summer, with them hopefully done by September. We should think about how effective the method was we used last year. 

Action items:

Adrien will add an update on FY21 priorities on wiki. (DONE)

June 10th all-staff is Technical Services Department. We will be discussing the OCLC Total Cost of Stewardship. Consider asking someone from the report to speak. This is the last day of RBMS. Susan will reach out to Naomi about rescheduling this meeting (DONE now scheduled for June 17th)

Adrien will add in FY21 update something about using the MLA document for an all-staff or postponing. (DONE)

Visual resources could have meeting with RAD, Adrien will reach out to Lilli. (PENDING)

Updates:

Dorothy: open knowledge grant meeting, using YPE minstrel recs at Brown

Lewis: Meg onsite reinstituting book accessioning procedures, Michael onsite has end-processing work, finished children’s literature and Leslie’s transfers, Meg will be speaking at upcoming TS meeting on pamphlet project.

Linda: Jennifer is going in two times a week, classification open meetings went well, Linda is working with Isabella Quintana to train new people on OCLC merge, cataloging discussion group is talking about SACO group, contacted LC about changing slaves to enslaved persons, rejected proposal because it’s not clear which term is preferred, Dorothy wants to submit this to her OCLC group on conscious and inclusive description.