Technical Services Committee (TSC)
2007 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE FACULTY
December 2007
Submitted by Sally Rogers, Chair, TSC
Minutes available at: http://www.library.osu.edu/staff/techservices/tscagnsummenu.php. A list of current members is available at http://library.osu.edu/sites/staff/comlist.php#techserv. Meeting summaries and other information about the committee can be found at http://library.osu.edu/staff/techservices/tscomm.htm.
The Technical Services Committee met three times in 2007.
Topics discussed by TSC in 2007 included:
- Implications of OhioLINK’s purchase of Springer e-books
- III WebPAC changes (WebPAC Pro was installed at OSU in Mar.)
- Display of language limit choices in WebPAC
- Plans for implementing the new version of GOBI
- Impact of adding the 590 note to the keyword index
- Problems describing large unique items (e.g., art, kits, sets, etc.) in the online catalog
- Creation of new Technical Services documentation
- Cataloging procedures regarding not adding URLs to existing records for printed books when batch loading e-book records
- Guideline for handling of requests for bib record update authorization in OSCAR
- Working guideline on cataloging of free e-book collections
- New developments related to Technical Services
- Impact of new CONSER standard on serials cataloging
- New ways of creating catalog records, including use of ONIX data from publishers and automated metadata creation
- Resource Description and Access (the code to replace AACR2)
- Implications of the CIC Google Book Search project
- Plans to test WorldCat Local and implications of possibly using it as our public catalog in the future
- Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (charged by the Library of Congress; draft report available for comment at http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/)
- Writing out catalog records for OCLC's Cooperative Collection Management Trust
- Updates on the work of the OhioLINK Database Management and Standards Committee and other OhioLINK groups
- Special programming for 856/956 fields in OhioLINK central (to use an 856 field for URLs for shared OhioLINK resources and a 956 field for those available only at the contributing library)
- New strategic directions being undertaken by OhioLINK (via 13 task forces)
- OhioLINK Journal Service Center proposal
- Future of TSC – reconfiguration as Catalog Committee (effective Jan. 2008, see announcement below)
Appendix One:
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:34:56 -0500
From: Sally Rogers <rogers.19@osu.edu>
Subject: Technical Services Committee reorganization, name change
To: liball@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Colleagues,
The Technical Services Committee (TSC) was formed in January 1998. Obviously, many things have changed in the past 10 years, and it is time for the TSC to change as well. As chair of TSC, I discussed this issue with the Technical Services department heads and with TSC at its Nov. 8 meeting.
Acquisition-related matters are being handled by the Collections Advisory Council (CAC) and in the Collection Managers Forum. Work being done in Technical Services in support of digital initiatives is being handled through meetings of the Digital Initiatives Steering Committee. Rights management and e-reserves work being done by Technical Services is being handled through a variety of other venues. Issues related to changes in how cataloging is being done are handled in the Cataloging Forum, CIPS meetings, and Special Collections Round Table. Web OPAC issues are being coordinated by the Web Visioning and Implementation Committees. What really remains as the focus for TSC are catalog policy issues. Catalog records are created and maintained by personnel in a variety of locations, and coordination of policies and procedures is needed.
Therefore, the name of TSC is being changed to the Catalog Committee. Responsibility for chairing the committee will rotate on an annual basis. The group will be chaired for 2008 by Beth Whittaker. The heads of Cataloging and Scholarly Resources Integration, or someone they designate, will each take a turn in 2009 and 2010. Others are welcome to volunteer to chair; otherwise, these three department head positions will be responsible. Official membership will consist of a core group of those current TSC members who represent locations where cataloging is done, allowing other TSC members to participate as they choose based on agendas distributed in advance. In addition, meetings will continue to be open to encourage broad input. It will be the responsibility of the chair to ensure that other groups or individuals are consulted as needed before new policies or procedures are implemented.
In the coming weeks, I will work with Beth on transition issues and on details related to approval and documentation of policies going forward. We will also update documentation about the committee that is on the OSUL web site. The listserv used for TSC (libodms) likely will be discontinued at some point in favor of a new listserv with a more relevant name. We will either automatically subscribe everyone on libodms to the new list or ask who wants to be added.
If there are any questions about this change, please let me know.
Sally
Document last revised: 12/6/07
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