Collections Services Council Minutes

October 6, 2020

Present: José Adrián Barragán-Álvarez,, Natalia Estrada, Mohamed Hamed, Chan Li, Toshie Marra, Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez, Stacy Reardon (co-chair), Michael Sholinbeck, Jesse Silva (co-chair), Hannah Tashjian, Tim Vollmer

Absent: Jean Dickinson, Liladhar Pendse, Anna Sackmann

Minutes: Chan Li

• Announcements and updates
• Based on last month's discussion about rotating acquisitions involvement, Sherry Lochhaas is joining CSC for this FY.

• HT ETAS and Google Books (Salwa)
• Recommend everyone to read the HathiTrust staff user guide
• The upcoming user forum will discuss the behind the scene efforts at the Library
• Issues about records in Google digitization but not in Hathitrust
• Not all of the Google partners are participating in HathiTrust.
• Salwa recommended people sending her the examples where the items are digitized by Berkeley in Google but not found in Hathitrust
• Future Hathitrust development
• Expand HathiTrust membership
• Reduce the barriers of record quality compliance
• Partnership between larger institutions and smaller ones

• Adding diversity language to the CSC charge
• The following language will be added to the CSC charge: The UC Berkeley Library stands firm in the opposition to discrimination and systemic oppression. Social justice, equal rights, and equal treatment for all are bedrock principles for the UC Berkeley Library as we fulfill our public mission. It is clear that we must do more to address systemic and structural racism, prejudice, and bias in both the workplace and in the campus community. Collections Services Council strives to advance the Library's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the context of our work.
• CSC will revisit this change in a few months to determine how we can better operationalize this new aspect of the charge.

• GreenGlass Training Recap
• The CSC Greenglass group will take a two phased approach, with instruction being the focus in the Fall and analysis being the focus in the Spring.
• The first step might be for the group to meet and brainstorm use cases for GreenGlass and what a local training might look like. This planning process might reveal our gaps in understanding of GreenGlass and questions about its opportunities and limitations.
• The working group can then meet with the trainer from OCLC to have its questions answered, and use that knowledge to inform the local training they are developing. They can then go on to provide local training at the end of the Fall semester.
• Action: Jesse and Chan will convene the group formed last month and will report back in November meeting

• Budget updates from LIBR and SCLG
• Most of the faculty feedback from LIBR meeting was positive. A few Humanities faculty have expressed concern about the access model that might replace the ownership model. Most of the faculty advocate more funding for the Library.

• Updates from project groups
• Strategic Collaborative Action Partnership Group
• Toshie provided a summary of the report, and Liladhar will discuss the report further at our next meeting.
• Non-Latin Cataloging Enhancement Project
• The group has focused on Russian language records and has tested the new workflow, which works fine.
• Mohamed and Jesse will work on a draft message that will go out to selectors to communicate the project process.

• Blending SSRGWG into CSC
• SSRGWG will be winding down its work in the next a couple of weeks
• Jo Anne and Jesse will bring changes to our charge early next year.