Notes from 2CUL JSMIN Meeting, January 23, 2018
Attending: Adam Chandler, Sarah Elman, Kate Harcourt, Jesse Koennecke, Jason Kovari, Jim LeBlanc, Mark Wilson
- Kate and Jim updated the group on the results of the "Future of FAST" survey, developed by representatives from Brown, Columbia, Cornelll, Harvard, and Yale, with OCLC. Overall the survey revealed significant interest in FAST as a fully-supported OCLC service, especially if OCLC commits to maintaining it. Kate will be giving a preliminary report on the survey results at the Heads of Cataloging meeting at ALA. In the meantime, the "FAST Five" will be meeting on Monday to discuss next steps for rolling out the survey results and follow-thru.
- Columbia has been begun adding retention policy statements to newly received Albanian, Hungarian and Romanian material, in part to determine the best approach to workflow. They've concluded that rather than adding these statements at the point of processing, they should develop an automated script to perform this task to be run periodically (e.g. annually). Cornell has not yet begun this work, given that the MOU for retention of these materials is still awaiting Harvard's signature, but Cornell will likely benefit from Columbia's preliminary investigation into how best to handle the statements.