Category: Data Migration

The last records merge open discussion focused on special collections, analyzed sets, bound-with, and  electronic resources. A recording, summary, and images of notes can be found in the FIT Documents folder for the Record Merge Working Group. A word of warning about the recording – we broke out into groups which didn’t translate to the recording. The beginning and end was captured. If you were unable to attend or have more you’d like to contribute, post your comments to this form which is anonymous and only for internal use.

We are in the process of scheduling two additional open discussions. Save the date for these upcoming events:

• April 30, 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, The Annex: Open Discussion on (Not) Merging Suppressed Records
• May 10, 2019, 9:30 am – 11:00 am, Mt. Holyoke: Open Discussion on Merging and What steps should be taken to prepare to Merge (or Not) on: Special Collections, Analyzed/Bound-withs/Cat Seps/etc., a third topic to be announced

We encourage everyone to continue the discussions on merging and how to prepare for the merge with their colleagues. If you have a group and a topic for the May 10th discussion that isn’t special collections or the analyzed/etc, let us know via the form, by email (jeustis@umass.edu) or Slack #5crmwg.

On June 5, 2018, EBSCO Information Services announced that the Five Colleges agreed to be an EBSCO FOLIO Beta partner. Since that time, much has happened to steer our Five Colleges towards FOLIO implementation. A new landing page for the FOLIO project was created. There is the FOLIO Implementation Team (FIT) whose members come from all the Five Colleges. And FIT has been working hard to coordinate implementation as can be seen from the documentation and regular updates communicated through Newsletters and now the Five Colleges FOLIO News.

 

As we enter Phase 03 of the implementation milestones or data migration and testing, FIT has launched the Record Merge Working Group. The members of this working group are Steven Bischof, Sharon Domier, Jennifer Eustis (lead), Rebecca Henning, and Colin Van Alstine. The Record Merge Working Group (5CRMWG) is tasked with creating a recommendations document for the merge, and, has also created a charge. Members of our working group will be reaching out to you to open and continue discussions on what it means to merge records, what records should be merged or not, and any questions about the merge. Our first group discussion is scheduled for April 12, 2019 from 9:30 am – 11:00 am in the UMass W.E.B. Du Bois Library in Room 1920. We encourage people to come in person. Realizing that is not always possible, a virtual option will be available.

 

As we work on the recommendations document, the 5CRMWG will share updates via this blog, Five Colleges listservs, and slack (via the #5crmwg channel). We encourage the entire Five College community to participate in these discussions.