The MSCS Technical Services Committee met from 2011-2014 and were responsible for investigating issues related to recording retention commitment information in local and union catalogs and for acting as local contacts for the OCLC validation project. The following were members of the Committee in 2014.
Members:
- Sara Amato, MSCS
- Sarah Campbell, Portland Public Library
- Albert Dunn, Maine InfoNet
- Karl Fattig, Bowdoin College
- Sharon Fitzgerald, University of Maine, Orono
- Patrick Layne, Bangor Public Library
- Lanny Lumbert, University of Southern Maine
- Mary Macul, Bowdoin College
- Mary Saunders, Maine State Library
- Sharon Saunders, Bates College
- Jessica Thomas, Portland Public Library
Guy Saldanha, Bowdoin College tested the Inter Library Loan (ILL) implications of MSCS including the new OCLC symbol. Guy also advised other ILL staff in the project.
Meeting Summaries:
- June 17, 2014
- March 31, 2014
- November 6, 2013
- August 5, 2013
- May 8, 2013
- January 11, 2013
- October 23, 2012
- August 28, 2012 (583 Sub-committee meeting)
- January 26, 2012
- September 12, 2011
Project Documentation:
- Summary of Actual Retention Commitments Made (stats)
- Retention Scenario One: Criteria & Overview
- Retention Scenario Two: Criteria & Overview
- Serials Scenario: Criteria & Overview | Summary of Commitments
- Recording and Displaying Retention Decisions – technical details
- Controlling Display of Retention Commitments
- Submitting data to PAPR
- Importing barcodes into an item review file
- Hathi Members: Exporting Holdings
- Hathi Records: Loading into Catalog
- Reclamation: Overview | Reloading of records
- WorldCat Knowledge Base – What we learned