2023/07/18 Minutes

Owned by Lewis Day
Jul 18, 2023

Present: Linda, Betts, Adrien, Lewis

Minutes: Lewis

  • SMG
    • Open houses – AASC units are scheduling open houses over the next few months. The Houghton open house is August 11 (3:30-5:00), and visitors from AASC units may join the weekly tour (2:00). There will be tables from Houghton departments, and these will need to be staffed. There will be an open call for volunteers at the Houghton all-staff on Thursday. 
    • Stacks space - PS staff working on a later conversation about using stacks space for other kinds of work. 
    • Adrien will be doing walk-through Mezzanine with Stav for use in Digitization, Acquisitions (including Bib Files relocation from Pusey P1).
  • Management - onboarding Alex (AASC); he will be meeting with staff groups in the next week.
    • Rebecca starting Monday; Jackie at the end of the month
  • TS Department Meeting (7/31) - reports from RBMS, SAA, 2 rare book schools; FY24 AASC priorities discussion.
  • FY24 TS cataloging and processing priorities - Linda and Betts will work with respective staffs to arrange assignments.
  • Curatorial LHTs - reminder that any metadata intentions should be vetted with Betts and Linda, not individual processors/catalogers.
  • Reminder for curators to work to respond to the Accessioning Form within 5 business days for payment, routing.