Eventually we would like to ask the Metadata and Cataloguing Subcommittee to make a recommendation on minimum bibliographic standards in the form of a Briefing Note. This backgrounder will serve as a source of information, guide exploration and discovery for the committee in that work and provide context for the decision.

Background

It will be very important to establish minimum bibliographic standards for the CLSP. So much of the work done by the Bibliographic Standards Working Group has laid an excellent foundation for our new Alma/Primo environment, but the Metadata and Cataloguing Subcommittee may find that they need to reassess some past practices. Now that we are in a shared system it will be very important that everyone adhere to a set of minimum standards. At some point we want CLO to re-endorse the minimum standards.

Minimum Bibliographic Standards

What are minimum bibliographic standards?

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Implementation and Migration Discussions to Date

Item material types: Item Material Types are system defined based on MARC tags in the LDR, 007/008 of the bibliographic record. As discussed in Example 1 above, If bibliographic records linked to the Network Zone (NZ) from member libraries do not meet a minimum set of MARC rules, resource type mapping as well as faceting/filtering in Primo VE may not perform as expected. Visit Mapping to the Display, Facets, and Search Sections in the Primo VE Record for more context. If all libraries can apply a common minimum bibliographic standard, then we should see system wide consistency of application through the Primo View It and Get It tabs. 

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Alma Tools and Resources

Searching in Alma - Understanding how to search in Alma is key to gathering sets of records for editing and ordering purposes - and it’s also key to understanding the impact of cataloguing decisions on search outcomes. The persistent search box is located at the top of every page. Search options available to each user depends upon user roles. Also see Repository Search Resultsto learn how to save and reuse queries.

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Next Steps?

In test Alma/Primo environment, test records that have met current BSWG minimum edit (test display; faceting/filtering, etc.)

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Are there any new NZ requirements? For example, consortia such as Orbis Cascade and SUNY have agreed on Alma Network Zone policies. For more information, see: ORBIS CASCADE ALLIANCE, Policy: Alma Network Zone, as well as SUNY’s, MSP 28, Policy: Working in Alma and the Network Zone and MSP-3, Policy: Alma Network Zone (NZ)

Cataloguing policies adopted by other library systems to support Network Zone cataloguing:

• GALILEO INTERCONNECTED LIBRARIES (GIL): Framework for GIL Libraries Cooperative Resource Management

• SUNY Resource Management

• Harvard Resource Management

• Orbis Cascade Technical Services Documentation

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