CatMet Management Group Minutes
April 4, 2012
Attendees: Peter Bushnell, Jane Anne Carey, Jimmie Lundgren, Hikaru Nakano, Betsy Simpson, Priscilla Williams, Naomi Young
Shared Bib
Great progress is being made on the pre-merge clean-up projects.
FCLA is developing the migration timeline. Aleph downtime is expected, but it is uncertain how long it will be. FCLA is considering possible workarounds that would allow at least some work to continue.
Post-merge priority report requests are due to FCLA by April 6.
Storage projects
The Stogen and Dedup lull is over and catalogers are returning to ALF.
SWOT
CMG discussed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) concerning Cataloging as part of a broader effort throughout the Libraries to examine internal and external impacts on operations. Units were encouraged to do a similar exercise.
Serial training
Naomi is discussing with Library HR an initiative to develop local online serial training modules.
