University of Michigan Library

Access to Electronic Resources Working Group

Plan for Fall, 1999

Priorities:
  1. 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?
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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:
  1. 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?
  2. 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?
  3. Explore URL trackers

Date: 7/21/99 Revision

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