MSUL Cataloging & Metadata Services Team Meeting 2023-09-19

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Nicole Smeltekop – new Interim Head of Copy Cataloging

Welcome Nicole! Has been on the job for about two weeks & doing great work
Please send all copy cataloging communication to her going forward
[Post meeting update: Remaining in her 2E Maps Library office, but a landing space in TS is a possibility]

Planning additional shelving in TS

Cubicles beside Autumn’s office in TS being dismantled; new shelving going in
Will be used for project, backlog, and problem storage (these types of materials are currently piling up in individual cubicles)

Small batch of ETDs coming soon

200ish ETDs from Lucas to add to the ETDs spreadsheet for cataloging – coming soon

Long MARC field causing Data Import issue

Cherish and Nicole discovered that a lengthy 505 field (about 4 pages when copied to Word) caused a record to fail during import
Breaking this field into several 505s resolved the issue
Possible this could happen with any lengthy MARC field (520?) so keep an eye out

Any non-Roman-language materials on your desk?

Some funding available for an outsourced cataloging project with Backstage
Send numbers of non-Roman titles to Nicole, send physical pieces to Cathy Illman

Homosaurus vocabulary activity

Homosaurus is a controlled vocabulary for LGBTQ+ topics, which can be used in tandem with LCSH terms
A goal for the CMS team this year is to become familiar with and begin regularly applying Homosaurus terms, and several things are happening around this
Authority records for the Homosaurus terms are now available, coordinating with Lisa Robinson so these can be brought into Folio
The Harmful Language Remediation Working Group is also doing a systematic pilot to test out application of Homosaurus terms
Ruth Ann Jones presenting on Homosaurus specifics on October 3, 2023
Nicole and Eli laying the groundwork with a talk about ethics in cataloging practice (see below)

Allyship in Cataloging presentation from Nicole Smeltekop and Eli Landaverde

Comments

Lisa Robinson
- Related to the use of alternative vocabularies, see RBMS Combined Vocabulary (RBMS-CV), which has some useful language among their genre terms for “prejudicial works” and can be applied to any type of materials, not just rare books
- Backstage in the process of creating authority records for RBMS-CV terms so we can also have these in Folio
Joshua Barton
- There is NACO documentation for contacting creators when working to establish names: https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/naco/documents/PCC-SCT-Authority-Control-FAQs-Authors-Creators.pdf
  - Related Confluence page: https://msults.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TSdoc/pages/2180874241/Contacting+people+about+their+NARs

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