Weekly Update – January 18, 2012
Annual report information
eIndiana Digital Consortium members: Because eIndiana Digital Consortium doesn’t provide MARC records in the Evergreen Indiana OPAC, members must report this service as a database, in 50a. All those libraries in other OverDrive consortia around the state that do create MARC records and provide them in the Evergreen Indiana OPAC may report the items as electronic books owned by the library, 58f in the annual report.
Everyone may count them as items circulated in 57a. If you can separate out children’s materials, you may also count them in 57b.
Everyone should report any Overdrive operating expenditure in 35aa. If you use other funds, report it in 36.1e.
Cataloging Committee survey
The Cataloging Committee will soon be sending out a survey which will help them update their records. The following questions are included in the survey:
1. Name of Library
2. Name of Director
3. Email address of director
4. Email addresses of all staff who would like to be included on the cataloging listserv
5. Cataloging contact person name and email address
6. Beginning June 30, 2012 the permissions for Cat-2 catalogers will change. Cat-2 catalogers will no longer be able to create new MARC records, batchload new records or edit MARC records. Only Cat-1 catalogers will be able to create new MARC records, add records by batchloading and edit MARC records.
Since you may have Cat-2 catalogers on your staff that have been performing these functions, they will need training to obtain their Cat-1 certification. The Cataloging Committee wants to schedule training to accommodate these needs, so we would like to know how many people on your staff will need this training in the coming months.