Feb2001ConferenceCall

February Conference Call
February 24, 2011, 2 p.m. Eastern

Hosted by MOBOT

Agenda:

• BHL records in OCLC update
• Round robin -- how are people doing with Gemini issues, too much, too few?
• Life and Literature conference announced
• BHL brief and detailed views update (Trish)
• 510 field - should this info be brought into BHL? (Trish) see summary below
• Conference updates- 2 BHL proposals submitted to LITA (Trish) | BHL-Classic & BHL-E proposal submitted to http://www.tpdl2011.org/ | Erin, Grace, Bianca & Becky working on an IFLA paper -- What/Who else?
• Collections update (Bianca)
  • Collection development policy underway, see outline here
  • sub-collections in BHL like, Materia Medica other ideas for sub-collections welcome
  • Paleontology titles?
• Twitter/FB activity increase - please put recommendations for "page of the day" fodder on this page. Could be a nice plate, interesting passage/figure, page w/ hand-written notes, etc., anything that could stand alone as an interesting page for our DAILY twitter post.

Summary of use of 510 field by BHL partners

AMNH – (13 records) |a, |c, |x
Harvard Botany Library – no records with 510
Harvard MCZ- (4000 records)
e.g. |a Biological abstracts |x 006-1977
|a Coal abstracts |b 19-1987
|a Brit. Mus. Cat. |c v. 6, p 147
MBL (12,000 records)
e.g. |a Biological Abstracts |b 1969-1994
|a GeoRef |x 0197-7482
Nat History Museum, London – (8 records)
e.g. |a Soulsby, no 1232
Smithsonian (2600 records)
e.g. |a Chemical Abstracts |x 0006-3325
|a Hagen, H.A. Bib. entomologica, |c II, 27
NY Botanical Garden (4000 records)
use for a mix of purposes – ref works and donor info
|a Pritzel (2nd ed) |c 6380
|a Gray Herbarium |c purchase August 1970.
|a Horticultural Society of New York gift, June 2006.
UIUC – (185 records)
e.g. |a Sotheby, Catal. Stiftung Botanik I [Plesch] |c 205
|a Biological abstracts |c 0006-3169