Records Merge Working Group Invites you to 2 Open Discussions

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.