Jisc have convened four community data groups to look at issues and possible interventions that might be made to enhance the quality and efficiency of library bibliographic and holdings data (https://libraryservices.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2017/12/nbk-group). These groups are running from now until the end of July 2018, and will be reporting their finding and progress to the community through […]
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CMCAB February 2018 Meeting
Here is our summary of discussions at the latest meeting of the Jisc Collection Management Community Advisory Board, held on February 8th 2018. The Board reviewed Terms of Reference for 2018, adding an oversight of NBK activity, specifically in relation to collection management, to our role and purpose. Service Updates: It was agreed that The […]
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CMCAB October 2017 Meeting
The Jisc Collection Management Community Advisory Board met on 17th October 2017. My apologies for the delay in posting a summary: Jane Daniels (Cardiff Metropolitan University) had produced a report for the Board about community interest in metadata memory. The Board’s discussion raised issues on the current capability of library systems and how metadata memory […]
The White Rose Libraries consortium have produced a final report on their investigations into collection overlap between the three member libraries (York, Leeds and Sheffield). It sets out the results of a Jisc funded investigation exploring matching and de-duplication of bibliographic records in the Jisc CCM tool and SCS/OCLC GreenGlass, compared with manually checked results. […]
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CMCAB June 2017 Meeting
The Jisc Collection Management Community Advisory Board met on 29th June. Here is a summary of our discussions: As usual an update on CCM Tools & Copac activity was provided. Highlights included: The CCM Tools pilot with the University of Sydney is progressing. We are working on providing a MARC exchange upload facility. Once established […]