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In the past couple of months, we have noticed an influx of tickets with a common subject: inconsistencies in fully cataloged records with OCLC encoding level 8. The reported inconsistencies referred to incorrect pagination, omission of Roman numerals, illustrations, missing 007 tag in audiovisual materials, etc. Level 8 is a pre-pub level of cataloging, and while the records are generally good...

The agenda for the meeting on Feb 4 is available. No registration is necessary. Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 9:30am to 12:00pm GoToMeeting Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://www.gotomeet.me/SWANLibs/cataloging-users You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (571) 317-3112 Access Code: 652-340-613 New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready...

Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning Subscribers: In the upcoming months, Lynda.com will be migrating active subscriptions to the new LinkedIn Learning platform. LinkedIn has informed us that the setup process for the new interface is self-service and must be performed by library staff for each subscription. Your LinkedIn representative will provide you with tutorials that should guide you through the...

The Cataloging Users meeting will take place via GoToMeeting on Thursday, February 4th, from 9:30 to 12:00. It will depend on the agenda if the meeting will last 2.5 hrs ; however, I will be available for the full duration if need be. Please submit topic ideas for the agenda or questions to claudia@swanlibraries.net. We will send out the agenda a week before the meeting. Please note you will also...

SirsiDynix will be performing planned maintenance on the Enterprise catalog server on Wednesday, January 27th at 11:00 p.m. This maintenance will require downtime throughout the process and is expected to take no longer than a half hour, so the impact will be minimal. We'll be posting a banner to Enterprise one day prior to the outage to alert patrons. Unless complications arise, no further...

Happy New Year! I would like to start by giving you an update on some of the projects the Bibliographic Services team is working on. These projects have been incorporated into our workflow and have become part of database maintenance. Serials Call Number training In November, we started some training sessions on serials call numbers with the purpose of minimizing inconsistencies in the way serials...