While there is no plan at present to switch authority vendors, I have highlighted areas where 2CUL might want to do further investigation.
1. Jeff Calcagno and Katie Gambone spoke to Bob, Kate, Susan, Irina, Jeff and Mark about their services.
2. They consider themselves a "tool bag" for libraries not an authorities vendor and will consider any and all requests for services.
3. They have a new program to do full cataloging and shelf ready for vendors, e.g., Harrassowitz. Possibility for 2CUL as there would might be savings and efficiencies? Working with vendors might be means of collaboration that would avoid some of the problems we encountered in trying to use our own staff. Harrassowitz turn around is 4 weeks.
4. They have cataloging teams, and cover many foreign languages. They do CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Vietnamese, Thai, etc. They work from surrogates, PDFs, or book in hand. They are looking into whether they can do Korean.
5. They have had NACO training as LC wants to oursource some authority work to them.
6. Marcadia still exists with some refinements.
7. They do ebook cataloging by enhancing records from publishers. This is a growing area for them. They do 12,000 titles a month with authority control. They would upgrade our older files. EResources, Cataloging or batch processing investigate?
8. Can upgrade bib and authority records to RDA. Will get back to us about relationship designators and 264 field.
9. Would take books from ReCAP (Cornell Annex?) that do not batch match, do the cataloging and return to ReCAP, avoiding our handling them. Cataloging Team?
10. They may open a cataloging center in the east to cut down on shipping books to Provo.
11. They do have a process to add ORCID, ISNI and VIAF identifiers. ORCID is not going well. VIAF and ISNI are not so problematic. Usually they keep special projects like this one that they are doing for Stanford under wraps but Stanford wants this exposed as it is a component of their move off of MARC.
12. They will consider authority control for FAST.
13. They are doing some pre Alma record clean up for libraries but they do not understand what Alma authority control will entail or how their services might complement it.
14. They would give us a "fantastic discount" to reprocess our file. They want our business and would include Cornell in our geographic region for services. Borrow Direct and Alma advantage?
15. They still outsource adding TOC and summaries.
16. They would sample and attempt to upgrade even the most horrid record set.
17. They have a lot of experience in record de-duping. We talked about doing ReCAP deduping on a periodic basis. Based on reports, we might do withdrawals.
18. They will provide authority control for digital collections. Asked them to work on providing updates if that is done. Right now we try to use controlled vocabulary but have no automatic way to update headings.