Projects, etc. done 2009

• Implemented AquaBrowser.
  • Member of CBB AquaBrowser Tech Services team (9/2008-9/2009).
  • (Headed up alignment of CBB output tables 11/2008-2/2009.)
• Re-organized Bib Services procedures page; updated policies (1/9/2009).
• Checkin-card project completed, claiming policy written (1/2009-2/2009).
• Wrote procedures for loading Serials Solutions book records. Trained staff. (1/2009-7/2009.)
• Changed printing of CD labels from Filemaker Pro to Microsoft Word (new printer and also cost saving initiative). Set up Word template, updated procedures, and trained student assistant (3/2009).
• Worked with Susan and CBB (Karl and Toni) on new Serials Solutions journal and e-book profiles, with AquaBrowser in mind (1/2009-4/2009).
• Wrote load table for Serials Solutions e-books (4/28/2009).
• Trained Susan to incorporate Marcive authority work in e-book loads. (2/2009-5/2009).
• Wored with staff in conjunction with their 2008/2009 performance appraisal goals and other work.
  • Teaching Rufen GPO cataloging (March 2009-).
  • Working with Carole on cataloging PromptCat books (those for which no full record was delivered) (March 2009-).
  • Worked with Susan on loading e-book sets, including accompanying authority work. Started by using eebo load (Feb. 2009) as a teaching example, in preparation for major monthly loads in April and July (Feb. 2009-July 2009).
  • Worked with Jim on collection-level records cataloging, in conjuction with his SAA class on cataloging with DACS. Transitioned my work with Kat (and Pat) to him (March 2009-July 2009).
  • Reviewed processing of various GPO formats with Marnie as incoming material wass reviewed by Sandi.
• Supervised Library Web and Systems Developer projects: (May 2008-May 2009)
  • Patron record re-design
  • ERM project
  • RefWorks enhancements
  • Location maps (including unique interaction with WebBridge).
  • LibX
  • Subject gudies project
• Installed Millennium Scheduler (Feb.2009).
  • ERM database
  • AquaBrowser bib, resource, authorities.
• Determined Overdrive (audio books patron verification) can not use our new Patron Web Services API. Set up procedures and arrangements for monthly manual loads to MaineInfoNet (3/2009-8/2009).
• Added a new location for Coram B. Wrote procedures. Floorplans updated. Done in connection with arrival of Moody's titles from Colby discard (3/2009-9/2009).
• Worked with Brenda on process for splitting TV shows on DVDs into 2-disc containers, editing contents notes, moving to display location, etc. (July 2009-Aug. 2009).
• Withdrew Laser Discs and removed location from catalog. Removed Electronic Reference location from catalog (Aug. 2009-Sept. 2009).
• Changed Popular Works to Featured Books (Label in catalog; Maps; AQB; Procedures).
• Finished back work on the Warnings (Marcvie authority loads) (Nov. 20, 2009)

Projects, etc. in process

• Marcive authority project. Clean up from re-load of complete authority file and from ongoing monthly loads.
  • Determine what can be done by others, write procedures, and train.
    • Near matches (student assistant?)
    • Non-unique 4xx fields (student assistant?)
    • Blind headings (Marnie, needs training, previously Catalog Service Bulletin work) (draft procedures)
    • (Marnie started doing Blind refs from Name Authority monthly load in March, 2009.)
    • We may also want to check the 1xx fields from List 2 to see if all name-title entries got changed.
• Database cleanup (authority records) for obsolete indicators. (This is being done after the Authority File Replacment since any changed records (hopefully) will have current indicators.)
• Continue loading record sets.
• Writing a Project to Set Up document. Completing projects myself or assigning work to others.
• Cleanup from archival cataloging (Includes cleanup of past coding practices and going forward with current standards (099 indicator, 710 |b, and 700 |4, |e).
• New functionality needed?
  • e.g., Pre-canned searches to help faculty using videos, esp. in interdisciplinary fields. (with XML server?)
  • Add call number to Circ feature film list and DVD list (Jeff asked that OCLC number be removed, but that is what creates the link to the catalog.) Or just wait and create these lists via the XML server. (?)
• Installing Millennium Scheduler.
  • Patron record loads (ask for needed info from IS)
  • CBB new material lists (if this still exists once/if Innovative enhances Create List functionality to search relative dates e.g, with a cat date of up to 90 days ago).
• Installing Patron API/Web Service
  • For patron fine/billing information to/with Banner (10/2009)
• Writing replacement procedures.
• 569 records currently to check. Some of these are from 2000. They must have already been replaced or should have been withdrawn. How does Marnie get this information? [The books come in as replacements; at that point she withdraws other copy. But the ones that don't come in--they need a separate step in the procedures.]
• See notes of meeting with Carole for writing new replacement procedures.
• Add to procedures for inventory--check barcodes with Meyer.
• Follow-up from IUG 2009
  • Install print templates (LC, SuDoc, CDs? DVDs? Videos?)
  • Install Release 2009A (done 7/2009).
  • Use XML server for New books list
  • Look at International Webmaster Assoc for classes/also U Maine for programming classes
• Determine if we still want these for the catalog. If so, implement:
  • Spell Check.
  • RSS feeds.
• Implement URL checker.
• Archives work
  • Finish work on Press numbers.
• Finishing Technical Bulletin 252 cleanup. Includes:
  • Converting records from n/a language code.
• Marc validation tables.
  • Technical Bulletin 255 OCLC-MARC Format Update 2008
  • Need to start with 254 and do 254 and 255 (but 255 still doesn't include 440 obsolete)
  • Technical Bulletin 254 OCLC-MARC Format Update 2007 and Institution Records to Accommodate the RLG Union Catalog
  • I had done this one (October 2006) Technical Bulletin 252 OCLC-MARC Format Update 2006
  • And also to do: in Account folder, e-mail of 1/6/2009 for a language code change.
• Listen to Diane Hillmann's Nelinet presentation (Dec. 5, 2008) on the Future of Cataloging and Catalogers.

Projects, etc. to do

• Work on excludes list for Marcive (in conjuction with cleanup project that hasn't been done since Simone left).
• Disaster plan for automation.
• Update webpage: Marc Fields for Cataloging Remote Electronic Resources, adding new fields for integrating resources. (Use handout from OLAC conference.)
• Update cataloged enhanced CDs to reflect new procedures (additional 007; Enhanced compact disc instead of Enhanced CD

Future Projects

• With Innovative authority control module, develop projects to:
  • bring Bates College and department headings under authority control, with subdivisions (probably will wait for Millennium Cataloging)
  • help with Wade-Giles to Pinyan conversion (slated nationally for Oct. 1, 2000) (Wade Giles cross references will be removed from authority records in 2 years--MCB v.32, no. 7 (July 2001), p. 8)
  • fix Jewish-Arab relations
• Continue procedures/documentation for use of Innopac codes, starting with item status: how used, who uses, etc. Include all formats (e.g., periodicals and status m / Air power journal, v. 11). For finished pages, see Innopac Documentation.
• Work on Laura's question about why American Jewish Desk Reference (Ref E 184.35 .A44 1999) is not in E 184 .J5 cutter. (It's right, I think, everything else is wrong?)
• Clean-up for scores in Evan's series, uniform titles
• Class number problem: use of zero in three letter K classes (KBD0) (KBL0) Marnie has list from inventories. [Will information in Innopac manual, 2. Create lists, Boolean searches using call number solve KFM 0 problem?] See OLAC Newsletter v. 22, no. 3 (Sept. 2002), p. 43 for information on OCLC's clean up of 3 character law call numbers. [Ann K. 5/2009 says that LC is still completing class schedules, and the completed schedules will all have class numbers.]
• Update compositeseparate.shtml, taking "de-composite" project into account.
• Take the Cataloger's Desktop tutorial.
• Watch OCLC webcast Reconceptualizing Cataloging, from ALA.
• Take the course on Soviet Union, etc. subject headings
• Reclass scores into Music for children that are now in general numbers? Also, see if some in MT's belong here (or teaching pieces). (Word search t: youth or t: young or t: Jugend or t: children or t: Kinder ot t: enfant**, limited to printed music.)
• AACR1 cleanup for sound recordings. For a display problem example, do a title search on: Don't look back. Innopac defines and displays the year as the last four digits in 260 |c. In AACR1 cataloging, the date is in 260|d; the music number is in 260 |c. So we have the last four digits of music numbers displaying as years in browse displays that include LPs.

With Millennium

• Change obsolete indicators: 1st indicator 2 in X00 fields to 1 (in bibs and authority records). 260 indicator 0 to blank. 740s. (started Fall 2003. Cleanup on this scale will have to be done over an extended period of time, or transaction file will have to be enlarged. Can't change 10,000 records daily, I don't think.)
• 590 Ruth Gevault Glazer to item record notes; icode2 to g (started Fall 2003, still need to remove note from bib records).
• Update uncontrolled headings (without subfields) for Bates College Departments (theses).
• Decide how to implement marc holdings records in Millennium. Easier to have staff member manually create records than for me to try to automate the process? (Write a load table to load LDR info into Millennium Serials. Nancy Norton, III rep. at the NASIG 2002 Innovative Users Group meeting said it would be possible to load info from LDRs with a custom load table. She also said you need a load table to have it create check-in from CONSER data; thinks you can't write it, because you need the programming piece to generate the boxes; but she thinks it's not an expensive load table (from NASIG 2002 notes). Use the OCLC MARC Records manual, Chapter 4, to see what fields are included in LDRs.)
• Form/Genre? Could use Millennium to change |x to |v.
• Get rid of |f for sound recordings and scores so automated authorities will change more headings? (or is that not the problem?) |f's are needed for uniform titles for books.

Summer student projects

• Get a permanent marker. Re-highlight first cutter of CDs.
• Make vols. of Schubert complete works (M3.S38) consistent and have students re-label.