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1) Cornell is working on ebook record enhancement using OCLC API and a script with their own (not OCLC's) matching algorithms.
2) OCLC Metadata collection manager not considered helpful if Columbia uploads older Precat holdings to Worldcat, as our records would only get upgraded if there was a change to the master record in OCLC.
3) Human intervention seems a necessary element, but Voyager Select might be used to harvest ISBN's from existing Precat records to batch run in Connexion Client and create a selected record file to load after some MARCEdit work (948, etc.). Selecting one "Precat Month" at a time.
4) Re-examine YBP firm orders and Shelf Ready. Can inability to merge holdings record be worked around ; possilbe use of batchcat.dll with Perl scripting.
5) Peter Martinez has looked at documentation for Global Data Change module of Voyager.

2/28/14

1) Renew determination to set up LStools demo and discussion meeting in which "next steps" are to be discussed. Attendees to be Gary Branch, Chris Manly, Peter Hoyt (Boaz if he wants) from Cornell and Mark Wilson, Gary Bertchume, Evelyn Ocken and Jennifer Chong from Columbia.
Demo topics to cover load of Columbia Herta Berengeur records, Reports that the tool can generate, Show an example of data error correction functionality, like initial articles.
2) Gary mentioned that Cornell has a mandate to clean up data as much as possible before migration to ALMA ; Some other data clean up incentives are blacklight driven.
3) Cornell is sending their "entire catalog" to OCLC for FAST heading application. Including possible  use of local headings to do so. (Leadership by Naun of CTS and Steve Folsom from Blacklight project)
4) Cornell original catalogers are addign FAST headings as part of their procedure using a web tool.
5) Discussion on mixed practices of 948 fields - Columbia does not count batch loads or use for acquisitions collection statistics or for record manipulation - At Columbia it is only used for cataloging production replacing the use of manual sheets.
6) POOF is being developed to possibly report lost and missing items and direct these to selectors to decide if re-orders are wanted. The WCS MATRIX would be used to generate orders.

7) Columbia suggested that perhaps ISBN displays in POOF could function as they do in GOBI and that links outward would search the OPAC?

8) A better preliminary interface is being investigated for POOF, including adding RDA values.

(Meeting in Item # 1 is set for 1:00 PM on Thursday, March 13th)