Access to Electronic Resources Working Group
Plan for Fall, 1999
Priorities:
Define our relationship to Web Architecture Group
What are they doing? What are their plans?
What decisions should we be making, what decisions are theirs?
What do we need to tell them?
What do we need to change based on their decisions/needs?
What is the method for communication?
Determine policy for handling of monographs
Establish current status of national discussions, including cooperative analysis projects.
Examine and document individual multiple format monographic treatments currently existing in the collection
Establish policy/guidelines regarding analysis of monograph aggregates: who decides which aggregates get analyzed? How are priorities set? What are standards for record content? Who should participate in this decisionmaking along with us?
Document and distribute our policy recommendations.
Document and distribute instructions for creation/purchase/editing of analytics for aggregated electronic resources
Implement display of holdings in Journals list
Defer attempts to use 856 in holdings records until new Z39.50 OPAC_holdings_schema is implemented by NOTIS.
Document practice of consolidated holdings kludge
Write program to transfer consolidated holdings information to Journals list.
Cooperative aggregate cataloging, both serial and monographic
Determine how to decide which projects to participate in: CIC, CONSER, OCLC? Who participates in decisions?
Determine procedures for loading record sets created by projects. What customization must we add?
Implement local cataloging practices and procedures using our policy documentation in conjunction with project standards—where do we conform, where do we customize?
Determine procedures for sharing our cataloging work with other institutions.
Less intensive activities to perform while waiting for response to larger activities:
How to handle expiration dates
Where does this information belong (in eTracker, in MCAT?)
How should information appear in catalog?
How will we use/extract this data? With what tools?
Promotion and advertising
Who needs to know what we are doing?
Develop method of informing line staff about availability of electronic resource information, encouraging them to use it.
Write announcements about activities and decisions
Training?
Explore URL trackers
Date: 7/21/99 Revision
URL=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jaheim/fall99.html