10:00-11:30am, 341 C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Chair: C. PottsMinutes: J. He
Attendees: J. Carter, A. Clemons, M. Erviti, D. Faulds, S. Grant, R. Haber, M. Hamed, J. He, A. Malik, T. Marra, S. Mendoza, C. Potts, A. Scheel, B. Williams, S. Xue
Announcements:
Jianye made a brief announcement about the current recruitment of a new faculty member for Chinese art history.
Abby reported that the Art + Feminism, Race + Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon was well attended.
Claude informed the group that The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition officially launched on Feb. 25 and thanked everyone for their participation. Each week one new entry will post from the website (www.ucblib.link/languages). This online sequential exhibit will take more than one year to complete. A companion physical exhibition will be installed in FSM in late Fall 2019.
Function Council reports:
Cataloging & Metadata Council (A. Malik): 1) Bancroft has a new Cataloging Assistant who will start working on Feb. 25. 2) CMS is in the middle of a search for LP4 for English and West European languages. 3) Randal Brandt made a report on a week-long rare book workshop hold in January. 4) CMS had a lengthy discussion on 3 ISBD punctuation treatments announced by the LC. Among them, treatment 3 (omit all punctuation and terminal period) has the biggest changes. It is recommended that: a. for copy cataloging, accept as found. b. Staff adjusting non-PCC records should follow predominant procedure in the record. c. for PCC and original cataloging, current practice continues. However, the recommendation for copy cataloging will lead to problems with searching. It is recommended that the Public Services Council as well as Collection Services Council should give input. The group agreed to the recommendations. OCLC will accept all three options for validation of records. 4) MARC 385/386 (audience characteristics/creator characteristics) was not initially going through in Millennium but is now showing up in public display. The display might be misleading and it is not clear how public will interpret it. It was agreed to refer this matter to the Public Services Council and WAG to recommend action to IT.
Collection Development Leadership Group (A. Scheel): The group met on Feb. 7 and the meeting was devoted to reviewing and making decisions on the Councils priorities for one-time funding proposals. Decisions were made and the list of funded e-resources was already sent to selectors. Chan Li summarized the preliminary findings of Ithaca survey reports and questions for the group.
Collection Services Council: T. Marra and M. Hamed shared a brief report of CSC's last meeting in the absence of J. Ott and S. Reardon. J. Church made an interim report of the Offline Digital Assets Phase II working group. Hannah reported the summary of recommendations of the Binding Guidelines Working Group, as well as the newspaper microfilming pilot project. The negotiation with Elsevier was also discussed.
Research Data Management (S. Peterson): No report available.
Public Services Council (S. Grant & S. Mendoza): Meeting cancelled.
Roundtable Update (A. Scheel): Jeff made an announcement about Elsevier negotiations. Jo Anne shared LLAMA (Library Leadership & Management Association)'s January webinar: Uncommit: How Do We Stop So We Can Start What Really Matters. There was also announcement about the implementation of UC Path.
Web Advisory Group (L. Cunningham): No report available.
Assessment Advisory Group (M. Hamed): The current instruction and reference data is in the process of migrating to a new platform called LibInsight. The Teaching and Learning Expertise Group will interview library staff to solicit feedback on what new data could be collected and embedded in the new platform. They will also explore what other peer institution's experience in using LibInsights. There was also a group discussion on Ithaka survey findings. The report has been reviewed one question by one question and will be shared by all divisions. A final library report will be available by the end of the semester.
Collection Development Travel Reports - Kenya/Rwanda (A. Clemons) and Egypt/Morocco (M. Hamed)
Adam had a 14 days acquisition trip. He attended the 21st Nairobi International Book Fair (26-30, September, 2018). He also visited LC Nairobi facilities and local book stores in Nairobi and Kigali, met Kenyan and Rwanda library professionals for networking. He also visited University of Rwanda Library and Nairobi National Museum, Genocide Memorials in Kigali.
From January 31 to February 17, Mohamed attended both 2019 Cairo International Book Fair and 25th Casablanca International Book Fair. Altogether he acquired 810 books, with significant savings in cost (some discount as high as 75%). He also visited LC Cairo Office, National Library of Egypt, Jewish Museum in Casablanca and book distributors. He also visited Alzad for Digital Archiving to discuss about document delivery service. To help one PhD. candidate, he also visited the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and statistics to collect requested data.
Around the table
Next meeting: April 4, 2019