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MARC Bib records: - a quick preview shows that records use MARC-8 encoding; holdings and barcodes in 852; no authority control numbers to clean. 

•  ACTION: Danielle Emon toconfirm needed encoding standard for data files. Message posted to Basecamp.
•   ACTION: Hilary Kelly to send Holdings record file to Danielle – just a small file showing records with multiple copies

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 o     Hilary has supplied list of physical items item groups with prefixes, etc.  There is still some weeding to be done.  Also discussed was simplification of locations prior to migration.

 Suppressed Bib records: Cambrian does have a number of records suppressed from Discovery to reduce physical item requests during COVID.  These records are to be unsuppressed later.  Cambrian would like to migrated as suppressed.  

•   ACTION:  Hilary/Marnie:  Purge anything that has been withdrawn.  Keep other records suppressed as needed.  These records can be migrated to Alma, but will need to be suppressed by ExLibris staff after migration by loading and matching a.csv file 001 (unique number).   A Mandarin report will need to be run to isolate the unique IDs for these records.  Possibly some help will be needed from Mandarin Tech Support.
•   ACTION:  Danielle Emon to confirm via Basecamp process for loading and suppressing records. Posted. DE.

 Non-MARC serial holdings: Cambrian to assume serial holdings are MARC.  This collection will be relatively small – serial collection is being weeded in favour of electronic subscriptions.

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Patron file – find out what is needed.   

•  ACTION: Danielle Emonto share with Hilary steps Loyalist used to extract patron information.  Note:  This patron file is used prior to cutover so that loans, fines, holds, etc., can be moved over to Alma.  At some point it should be overwritten by the SIS load.

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o    No call number in $h, but some descripton in $k  – just part number

•  ACTION:  Discuss with Ex Libris – how to restrict an equipment location to particular patrons.
•  ACTION:  Basecamp – equipment database – describe records, upload sample file – request best migration route.  Note: some older content may be purged

 eResources:  ProQuest; Criterion; ACF; NFB; discussed strategy briefly.  Cambrian currently has ProQuest ebook Central ; Criterion; ACF; NFB  in catalogue, and others.  Discussed Alma’s ability to use Marc records already in Community Zone – particularly for ProQuest ebook Central – so no need to extract from Mandarin to migrate. Criterion; ACF & NFB are currently purchased via OCLS – discussed that it might be useful to see which of these might be loaded via Network Zone before trying to manage locally.