Attendees

1. Angela Ashton, Lambton College

2. Carrie Cousineau, St. Lawrence College

3. Danielle Emon, OCLS Consultant

4. Dijana Kladnjakovic (Co-Chair), Humber College

5. Irene Sillius, Sheridan College

6. Kit Robertson, Northern College

7. Mary-Margaret Mirtsos, Centennial College

8. Melissa Forget, St. Clair College

9. Najeeb Ahmed, Humber College

10. Sarah Gillard, George Brown College

11. Stacey Boileau (Co-Chair), OCLS

12. Sara Walker

Regrets

1. Tiffany Miller, Confederation College

2. Callen Retter, Confederation College

3. Jasper Romo, Georgian College

4. Susan Lee, Conestoga College

5. Aura Hill, OCLS

6. Rosina Leung, Seneca College

Action Items

Discussion Items

Subcommittee Chair Update

• Dijana asked for questions, clarification, etc from the Subcommittee members. There were none.

Briefing Note 04 - Network Zone - Consortial Treatment of LC Subject Headings - Recommendation Update

• A communication was shared with the Decolonize the Catalogue Committee with a request to recommend the best path forward for reflecting the work done by the colleges around decolonizing the catalogue now that it has been decided the Colleges Union Catalogue (CUC) file will be used to populate the Network Zone. The communication is here:

Open

• The Decolonize the Catalogue Committee recommended the second approach described in the communication. This is to update the CUC with decolonized work done by the colleges who have added subject terms as well as kept the LC subject headings.

• Najeeb, suggested the addition of an authority file.

• Danielle asked, will the goal be to add that authority file to the network zone? Will all colleges have the ability to add to this file? Or will there be consensus around adding headings, etc.

• Stacey suggested that CLO may need to strike up another working group to keep up that work. A consortial file could be maintained by this group with the input from the colleges.

• Dijana suggested to add the recommendation to implement an authority file for the Network Zone and

  • It will be the work of the Met/Cat or someone else?

  • suppress through primo ve?

ACTION ITEM: Stacey to update the Consortial Treatment of LC Subject Headings BN and share with the ISC for approval.

Briefing Note 03 - Standardization Reference Tool - Update

• This Briefing Note will be brought to the ISC meeting on December 9, 2021 for approval. The next step is to begin the creation of the Reference Tool. The Subcommittee can begin by reviewing Danielle’s work https://clo-collaboration-spaces.atlassian.net/l/c/ThAQEsZ4

  • Danielle described the benefits and uses of an import profile, for example a profile for NFB or CBC, etc.

  • Dijana pointed out that the MetCat Subcommittee should work closely with the e-Resources Subcommittee to develop and manage import profiles for challenging collections.

ACTION ITEM: Dijana and Stacey to begin a draft a page in Confluence for a Standardization Reference Tool.

Discussion on Communication of Briefing Note Decisions

It was pointed out that decisions regarding cataloguing practices by this Subcommittee need to be clearly and widely communicated. The Subcommittee will need to identify processes to ensure everyone in the CLSP is aware of standards and committed to applying best practices identified by the MetCat Committee.