MU MERLIN Advisory Committee (MAC) Meeting

Thursday, December 6, 2012, 10:00-11:30 am
Ellis 4F51A

Send additional items or questions to Felicity Dykas and/or Judy Maseles.

1) MERLIN redesign update

2) Review of pending indexing changes and issues

* Tables of contents

* Changes to limits that are still pending

* Series in MOBIUS; sometimes a hotlink and sometimes not

3) Review MERLIN scoping table

* Review scoping of locations in item, checkin, and order records to bibliographic locations.  These impact the MERLIN Specific Library location limit (http://merlin.lib.umsystem.edu/search/Y)

* There are some inconsistencies in our scoping.  See some recommended changes and questions.  http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/catalogdept/temp/Bib_Locations.xls

5) RDA – new cataloging rules

* New fields that you may see in records

6) Committee reports

* Activities, open tickets, etc.

7) Sierra planning

* Sierra implementation is scheduled for February 19, 2013.  We may have more information by the meeting.

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