Summit Catalog Committee Charge 2006-07

approved by Council Oct. 5, 2006

The Orbis Cascade Alliance Council Charges the Summit Catalog Committee with determining priority, investigating, and advising Council on the following topics:

Summit Data Harvesting

Explore Summit’s potential as a source of data (bibliographic, item, order, circulation, etc.) for the purpose of developing improved services and informing decisions made by member libraries and the consortium. Given the integrated nature of INN-Reach and Millennium, it is expected that such data may be available through Summit or local catalog systems. Potential applications include development of a new Summit interface, analysis of usability, cooperative collection development, and accreditation. In pursuing this charge, SCC is asked to consult with the Accreditation Document Task Force, Collection Development & Management Committee and Summit Borrowing Committee.

Summit Search Interface

Explore Summit usability and develop recommendations concerning potential new user interfaces to the Summit union catalog. Activity includes
· Summit interface update based on Release 2006
· Exploration of III options available to INN-Reach systems
· Exploration of non-III options

Open WorldCat link to Summit

Pursue this initiative as described in SCC’s May 2006 report.

Google link to Summit

Continue to pursue this initiative as described in SCC’s May 2006 report.

Duplicates

Develop technical, policy, and workflow recommendations to prevent duplicate bibliographic records and/or mitigate the impact of duplicate records on patron service.

The Summit Catalog Committee is asked to provide a status report to Executive Committee by May 2007.

updated: October 11, 2006