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.