MOL team started work ~1/2 year ago. Focus is Metadata Management/MARC record management and working to provide services for Polish libraries to implement FOLIO. They presented earlier this year about MARC templates functionality: 2023-05-25 Metadata Management Meeting notes.
008 field in proper order in quickMARC
Previous order was not based on order defined by LOC
Catalogers are used to LOC character positions
Added hint in each to make subfield clear, e.g. country = place of publication
Improved authority linking
Previously clicked on reference term and go to MARC authority record to see corresponding authorized term then go back and start search over with found authorized term.
Now in top right there is Link button with hint that says Link <authorized term> , click link and it automatically links to authorized term
Added relevant sort to Inventory App
Will be covered when Inventory Search is presented in coming weeks
Questions:
Did you consider changing Start date/End date to the MARC Date1/Date2 (since these are not necessarily start or end dates)?
Names are derived from OCLC, but agree would be better to change the names to Date 1/2.
Khalilah: Will add as enhancement request to change the labels. Challenge to know whether to follow OCLC or LC
Laura: When there is a discrepancy we should follow LC MARC because OCLC changes are always very OCLC specific.
From Action menu - New MARC Bib record. Not templates but needed pre-req
008 order improvement - see MOL above
008 handling improvements
Can edit quickmarc even if bad 008 was loaded
MARC Authority App
Automated auth control linking
if you have assigned permission you will be able to click "link headings" to automatically link headings to bib fields. Only works if eligible bib field has a $0 - no string matching.
Can set up which fields should be eligible for automated linking. Tenant level configuration via API only. No UI setting.
Currently 6xx is disabled by default (until subject thesaurus validation is in place) but this may change for Poppy.
This is not a batch feature. Only supports single record automation via the UI.
Question: what happens if you have $0 but have not loaded auth records?
If user doesn't have permission then the link button will not appear.
If permission is not disabled and link is attempted, the red toast will appear that says "we haven't found any records"
Failed link bib report
Improved manual linking - see MOL above
Additional improvements since Orchid
Auto-populate bib field values when linking
Default to search and browse based on bib values
Key bugs and enhancements addressed
See slides for details
Search and Enhanced Consortia support will be covered at future MM SIG meeting
Announcements: TC is setting down a subgroup on translation/multi-lingual support in FOLIO. Purpose is discussing the possible direction the project might want to go with this.
PC subgroup - SIG working group report and discussion:
Entity Management/BIBFRAME SIG discussion at future PC meeting (11/30/2023) - Felix and Raegan are invited
Data Import, which is an ongoing group, that might be a prime candidate for changing from working group to a SIG, with a SIG convener from the community (MM-SIG, Acquisition-SIG)
BELA (Bulk Edit & List App working group (MM-SIG, UM-SIG)