[MinervaCats] Minerva Cataloging Committee Users Council Report

[Katherine R. Morgan]

Hello Catalogers
    Here is the report the committee gave to the Minerva Users Council  
meeting on April 8.
      Minerva Cataloging Standard Committee
      Minerva Users? Council Meeting
      April 2009



Attendance policy
      The new attendance policy went into effect in January of this  
year. Briefly, each library must send a cataloger to three meetings or  
view three meetings in a calendar year. If a library does not send a  
cataloger to three meetings or view meetings the following year the  
library will not be allowed to bring in records from Z39.5 or create  
new records. The policy was sent out on MinervCats, but if you need  
the policy please email me, Katherine Morgan, at  
norcat at norway.lib.me.us.

Blu-Ray
Committee members decided that Blu-Ray was another form of  
videorecording and would remain under that material type.

Add a material type for equipment
    It was agreed to place equipment (projectors, I-Pods, etc.) in the  
material type ?q?.

Changing the status work ?owns?
  James Jackson Sanborn had requested changing ?owns? as it was vague  
and confusing.  James suggested ?unavailable? would be patron friendly  
and more appropriate.  The committee agreed with him.  ?Unavailable?  
will be a status that only Maine InfoNet management will be able to  
confer on items.


Changing statuses ?in tech services? and/or ?in repair? from  
requestable to non-requestable
 From both the e-mails and the Cataloging Standards Committee members  
remarks, no one had a clear definition of each status.  The committee  
will look further into this matter. A member will run stats on status  
use and we will work on status definitions and requestability at our  
next meeting. We plan to work with the circulation committee with this  
issue.

New committee member
    Jim Roy from Maine State Library Outreach is a member of the  
committee. He is in charge of attendance, and cataloging the taped  
catalogers users group meetings.

Committee Coordination

The Executive Committee requested Cataloging and Circulation work  
together to avoid duplication of effort or conflicting best  
practices/policies.  We are working with the circulation committee to  
implement the Executive Committee?s request.

Katherine R. Morgan
Technical Services/Administrative Assistant
Norway Memorial Library
207-743-5309