Catalogers
Group Minutes
Present: John
Riemer (recorder), Rita Stumps, Caroline Miller, Gia Aivazian, Joan LoPear,
Beth Feinberg, Janice Matthiesen, Louise Ratliff, Valerie Bross, Paul Priebe,
Renιe McBride
YRL
Catalogings Unit Response to the OTNG Survey:
Cataloging
(#1)
Authority control Crucial
(#2)
Batch export of bib records Crucial
(#3)
Batch loading of authority records Crucial
(#4)
Batch loading of bib records Crucial
(#5)
Call number search for shelf-listing purposes Crucial
(#6)
CJK and other non-roman character editing and display Important
(#7)
Display of holdings and items Important
(#8)
Display of multiple record results (includes display of multiple bib records,
multiple holdings records, multiple item records, multiple authority records)
Important
(#9)
Display of single bib record and associated holdings records Nice to have
(#10)
Editing Crucial
(#11)
Global change other than authority record initiated change Nice to have
(#12)
Individual export of bib records Nice to have
(#13)
Individual import of authority records Nice to have
(#14)
Individual import of bibliographic records Nice to have
(#15)
Keyboard equivalents Crucial
(#16)
Macros Crucial
(#17)
Navigation Important
(#18)
Permissions Nice to have
(#19)
Printing Important
(#20)
Save file Nice to have
(#21)
Searching Crucial
(#22)
Sorting multiple record results Important
(#23)
Transfer or move items among bibliographic records and holdings records;
transfer or move holdings records among bibliographic records; should be
relatively easy and relatively error-proof Crucial
(#24)
Validation of records Nice to have
(#25)
Validation of barcodes Crucial
E-resources
(#1)
Ability for catalog to substitute for ERDb public discovery functions
(high-level browsing) or to supply critical data to support ERDb Crucial
(#2)
Ability for the system to track and report digital acquisitions data for
licensed e-resources plus those under consideration or disapproved Crucial
(#3)
Cross-database searching functionality whereby traditional OPAC contents &
item-level digital library descriptions can be searched simultaneously at
users' discretion. Crucial
OPAC
(#1)
Analytics Important
(#2)
Bound-with Important
(#3)
Configuration of the user interface beyond the basic layout Important
(#4)
Browse heading search results display (with left-anchored, right truncation
implied) Crucial
(#5)
Call number searching and display Crucial
(#6)
Call number searching and display, "Local" style Crucial
(#7)
Combined author/uniform title or title headings search index Crucial
(#8)
Command line searching Nice to have
(#9)
Display of non-Roman characters, eg. CJK, Arabic, etc. Crucial
(#10)
Display of records with many items, especially serials Crucial
(#11)
Exact searching Nice to have
(#12)
Guided searching no response
(#13)
Help information, system supplied Important
(#14)
Jump-to feature Important
(#15)
Keyword in/on heading search Crucial
(#16)
Keyword in record searching Important
(#17)
Limiting searches Crucial
(#18)
Local information in holdings record, ability to search (index) Important
(#19)
Local information in bibliographic and holdings records, display Important
(#20)
Nested searching Nice to have
(#21)
Normalization Crucial
(#22)
Numeric searching, other than call number Crucial
(#23)
Proximity searching Nice to have
(#24)
Record suppression Crucial
(#25)
Search history features Important
(#26)
See and see also references, and authority records, display Crucial
(#27)
Shopping cart feature Important
(#28)
Sort feature Important
(#29)
Sort feature: "Main Entry" sort Crucial
(#30)
Sorting of numbers in a list display, other than call numbers Important
(#31)
Stop words [Freedom from] Important
(#32)
Subject heading in records link Nice to have
(#33)
Subject heading searching across multiple subject thesauri (LCSH, MESH, etc.)
Crucial
(#34)
Truncation/wildcards Crucial
(#35)-(#40)
User initiated features no response
SRLF
(#1)
Editing: Efficient method for changing location of an item Important
(#2)
Editing: Efficient method for adding multiple items to a record Important
(#3)
Editing: Ability to transfer or move items from one HOLDINGS record to another
(if holdings records are used) Crucial
(#4)
Editing: Ability to transfer or move items from one BIBLIOGRAPHIC record to
another (in batch or individually) Crucial
(#5)
Editing: Efficient method for changing the barcode of an item without losing
circulation history Important
(#6)
Editing: Efficient method for importing records from other catalogs Nice to
have
(#7)
OPAC displays: Display item barcode in the OPAC no response
(#8)
OPAC displays / searching Important
(#9)
Owning location: Preserve owning unit information in the item record Crucial
(#10)
Owning location: Display owning unit information in the OPAC Important
(#11)
Owning location / call number Important
(#12)
Paging: Ability for a user to page SRLF items from the OPAC Crucial
(#13)
Paging: Ability for a user to page multiple SRLF items associated with a title
in a single transaction Important
(#16)
Paging: Ability to limit paging feature to certain categories of patrons and
certain categories of items (for instance, limit request for YRL Special
collections material to certain requestors at YRL Special collections)
Important
[No
response to other questions]
Systems
(#1)
Data manipulation Crucial
(#2)
MARC record manipulation tools Crucial
(#3)
URL link-checking Nice to have
Underlying
Characteristics
(#1)
Response time Crucial
(#2)
System reliability Crucial
(#3)
Reporting Crucial
(#4)
Portal / Gateway products Important
(#5)
Unicode implementation Crucial
(#6)
Indexing efficiency Crucial
(#7)
Logically appropriate bib-holdings-items record structure and relationships
Crucial
(#8)
Record size Crucial
(#9)
Implementation at other ARL libraries Important
(#10)
Implementation within the UC system Nice to have
(#11)
Good quality training and documentation supplied by ILS vendor Important
Next
Meeting: July 25