As of 2024, UMass NACO contributions will be done under MaAhFCL
This information is captured for historical purposes only, in case needed for future decision-making
History & decision making
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The following emails regarding the canceled UMass NACO registration are provided for documentation and decision-making purposes only.
Frank, Paul<From: Sharon Domier <sdomier@library.umass.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2024 4:12 PM
To: Frank, Paul <pfrank@loc.gov>
ToCc: Ann Kardos ;
Cc: Sharon Domier
Tue 9/17/2024 11:22 AM
Hi Ann,
Thank you! I just deleted the MU profile. Wow, what great memories of working with Sharon and you back when the Mass Five Funnel was established! Fun times!
Paul
_<annk@library.umass.edu>
Subject: UMass NACO participation
Hi Paul,
This is Sharon Domier, the East Asian Studies librarian at UMass. How are you doing these days? It looks like you are as busy as ever. I really appreciate all that you do for catalogers across the country.
I am gearing up to retire this fall and trying to clean up loose ends. One of those loose ends is our institutional commitment to NACO. At UMass there is just me and Ann Kardos who are trained NACO contributors, and even we haven't had time to contribute much if anything over the past 5 years because of our ILS conversion (FOLIO, just wait:))
Ann and I have been talking about it, and we think that going forward it makes the most sense to drop the MU institutional NACO and use the MaAhFCL (Mass funnel) option instead. Ann is happy to continue to shepherd that one and we have new colleagues at local colleges who are eager to start training and then contributing under Ann's guidance.
So, even though I know the NACO FAQ says that you hope member institutions won't feel that they need to withdraw, Ann and I would like to make this recommendation to our administrators and would like to seek your help in seeing it through the necessary procedures with the PCC-Secretariat.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Best wishes for a reasonable summer,
Sharon Domier
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From: Ann Kardos <annk@umass.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2024 2:01 PM
To: Frank, Paul <pfrank@loc.gov>; Sharon Domier <sdomier@library.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: UMass NACO participation
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Hi Paul,
Thanks so much for your guidance on what Sharon and I would need to do to drop our MU institutional NACO. We've discussed this with our appropriate managers, and I think we're ready to update the PCC directory. Sharon has only a few more weeks with us here at UMass, and I'm ready to contribute my NACO records through the Five College Funnel.
Please deactivate our MU profile in the PCC directory. It's the end of this chapter, and the beginning of a new one here at UMass.
Let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks again!
Cheers,
Ann Kardos
From: Frank, Paul <pfrank@loc.gov>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2024 3:55 PM
To: Sharon Domier <sdomier@library.umass.edu>
Cc: Ann Kardos <annk@library.umass.edu>
Subject: RE: UMass NACO participation
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All the best to both of you!
Paul
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From: Sharon Domier <sdomier@library.umass Ann Kardos <annk@umass.edu>
Sent: Tuesday Monday, July 09September 16, 2024 42:12 01 PM
To: Frank, Paul <pfrank@loc.gov>
Cc: Ann Kardos <annk@library; Sharon Domier <sdomier@library.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: UMass NACO participation
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Hi Paul,
This is Sharon Domier, the East Asian Studies librarian at UMass. How are you doing these days? It looks like you are as busy as ever. I really appreciate all that you do for catalogers across the country.
I am gearing up to retire this fall and trying to clean up loose ends. One of those loose ends is our institutional commitment to NACO. At UMass there is just me and Ann Kardos who are trained NACO contributors, and even we haven't had time to contribute much if anything over the past 5 years because of our ILS conversion (FOLIO, just wait:))
Ann and I have been talking about it, and we think that going forward it makes the most sense to drop the MU institutional NACO and use the MaAhFCL (Mass funnel) option instead. Ann is happy to continue to shepherd that one and we have new colleagues at local colleges who are eager to start training and then contributing under Ann's guidance.
So, even though I know the NACO FAQ says that you hope member institutions won't feel that they need to withdraw, Ann and I would like to make this recommendation to our administrators and would like to seek your help in seeing it through the necessary procedures with the PCC-Secretariat.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Best wishes for a reasonable summer,
Sharon Domier Thanks so much for your guidance on what Sharon and I would need to do to drop our MU institutional NACO. We've discussed this with our appropriate managers, and I think we're ready to update the PCC directory. Sharon has only a few more weeks with us here at UMass, and I'm ready to contribute my NACO records through the Five College Funnel.
Please deactivate our MU profile in the PCC directory. It's the end of this chapter, and the beginning of a new one here at UMass.
Let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks again!
Cheers,
Ann Kardos
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Frank, Paul<pfrank@loc.gov>
To: Ann Kardos;
Cc: Sharon Domier
Tue 9/17/2024 11:22 AM
Hi Ann,
Thank you! I just deleted the MU profile. Wow, what great memories of working with Sharon and you back when the Mass Five Funnel was established! Fun times!
Paul