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February 13, 2019
Attendees
Nikki DeMoville (CPSLO), Brandon Dudley, (CO), Amanda Grombly (CSUB), Brian Moore (SDSU),Peggy Lau (CSUEB), Karen Schlesser (SJSU)
Agenda/Discussion
Request from RM group for training
- (from Luiz's email) Analytics Training for Resource Management - Committee discussed submitting requests for future training in Analytics in support of resource management statistics (e.g., How many titles and items added by location in a month; How many titles and items withdrawn by location; Introduction on the use of Library of Congress Classification (LCC) in Analytics: show how to better apply LCC field of LC Classification in dimensions).
Karen will share her reports for added/withdrawn, Lauren will cover LCC
Policies - All functional committees have been asked to review their old policies before they are moved into a new Policies space in the ULMS wiki
- Our group only has this one: Working in the NZ Analytics instance
Nikki proposed updating the text and bringing it back to the Steering Committee for formal adoption
- Request from Brandon to clarify anyone can access NZ?, formalize process
- Privacy? User identity is anonymized in NZ but IZ acq payment data is not. Previous suggestion to require signed agreement not to expose data inappropriately deemed overkill. Can be included in policy & best practices.
- Brandon suggested policies/best practices are needed for: sharing reports, backup, cleanup, report requests - guidelines (Brian will work on)
Brandon: Analytics was a frequent topic of anxiety during recent campus checkins
- Nikki: Annual training? Project funding by CO has run out. Training by Connie Brown @ Ex Libris would be valuable.
EAR - their data interests lie outside Analytics currently. Continuing need for a liason - Tracy?
Community folders in Analytics
- Version control?
- Network backup will restore - weekly sync
- Strategies for making sure important reports are protected or backed-up
- Develop a policy, best practice and procedures
- Nikki will open Salesforce case to see how permissions can be edited (e.g., ExL reports)
- Karen: Analytics SU allows seeing when reports are used by whom
Policy on retention - 3 years?
- Idea Exchange: Include more identifying info with report data instead of user system #
Salesforce case: Available for Group Members still unresolved.
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December 12, 2018
Attendees
Nikki DeMoville (CPSLO), Brandon Dudley, (CO), Amanda Grombly (CSUB), Lauren Magnuson (CSUSM), Brian Moore (SDSU), Tracy Gilmore (CSULB), Peggy Lau (CSUEB), Karen Schlesser (SJSU)
Agenda/Discussion
Updates on task groups:
Dean's Dashboard/Data Viz update (Lauren, Karen)
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Amanda found suspicious # of owning members (+28?) in periodical count reports.
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November 14, 2018
Attendees
Nikki DeMoville (CPSLO), Brandon Dudley, (CO), Amanda Grombly (CSUB), Lauren Magnuson (CSUSM), Brian Moore (SDSU), Tracy Gilmore (CSULB), Peggy Lau (CSUEB)
Regrets: Karen Schlesser (SJSU)
Agenda/Discussion
Updates on task groups:
Data viz (Lauren) - Working on dashboard demo. Have integrated data stores into single account so they can interact, incl. context for visualization elements.
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- Q - anyone else participating? A - not yet.
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October 10, 2018
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) (CPSLO), brandon dudley (Unlicensed), (CO), Tracy Gilmore (CSULB), Amanda G. (CSUB), Peggy Lau (Unlicensed) (CSUEB), Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) (CSUSM), Brian Moore (Unlicensed) (SDSU), Karen Schlesser (Unlicensed) (SJSU)
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- works out of the box
- compatible with SCELC
- not continuously updated (one-time load/analysis)
- Useful tool for identifying unique/rare material
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September 12, 2018
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) (CPSLO), brandon dudley (Unlicensed), (CO), Tracy Gilmore (CSULB), Amanda G. (CSUB), Peggy Lau (Unlicensed) (CSUEB), Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) (CSUSM), Brian Moore (Unlicensed) (SDSU), Karen Schlesser (Unlicensed) (SJSU)
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The spreadsheet of credentials was distributed to the TF. Very useful/accurate in general. Will be distributed to ERM contacts.
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August 8, 2018
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) Brian Moore (Unlicensed) Amanda G. brandon dudley (Unlicensed) Tracy Gilmore
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- Should all CSU campuses opt in to this?
- Now that we have been live for a year…
- Might facilitate cross CSU comparison
- Is it available in NZ?
- Consensus is this is a local decision but probably of interest to the Deans
- Brandon shared a report on Benchmark Analytics for data cleanup
- Nikki will enquire whether anyone else has turned this on
- Should all CSU campuses opt in to this?
- Task forces
- new member needed? (Alyssa has rotated off)
- going beyond data gathering & visualization--possible to move into assessment (e.g. impact of instruction on use of OneSearch)?
- Amanda mentioned they are moving away from OneSearch in favor of databases for undergrads. Nikki and Tracy say they are doing the opposite.
- Instruction needs?
- Mallory recruited 2 new members
- Established naming convention, folder structure for vetting/development
- Interested in KPI?
status report(non available)
- Discovery
- Resource Sharing (Nikki)
- Fulfillment (Brian)
- Data viz
- Collection Development Dashboard (Amanda)
- Requests for a finished product but little detail. Specific reports need to proceed a dashboard.
- New TF - Tracy, Amanda, Nikki
- Fullerton is presenting @ IGelU on Collection Reports… - Amanda will reach out.
- SRU searching (Nikki)
- can circumvent NZ Analytics limitations. Lauren has worked with this.
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July 25th, 2018
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) Karen Schlesser (Unlicensed) Brian Moore (Unlicensed) Amanda G. brandon dudley (Unlicensed) Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed)
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- Karen volunteered to show her Collection Development dashboard
- Others?
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June 13, 2018
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) Karen Schlesser (Unlicensed) Brian Moore (Unlicensed), Alyssa Loera (Unlicensed) Amanda G. Moon Kim (Unlicensed) brandon dudley (Unlicensed) Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed)
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4. Any other TF updates anyone wants to share, as time allows
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April 11, 2018
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) Amanda G. Brian Moore (Unlicensed) Karen Schlesser (Unlicensed) Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) Moon Kim (Unlicensed)
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Moon will be attending ELUNA where the Analytics Group will be meeting with Ex Libris to discuss major issues such as timeouts and the failure of cost per use analyses.
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Feb. 21, 2018
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) Amanda G. Brian Moore (Unlicensed) Karen Schlesser (Unlicensed) brandon dudley (Unlicensed) Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed) Alyssa Loera (Unlicensed)
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- NZ Analytics role
- Withdrawn items - impact on Analytics
- Other policies, Recommendations?
- Best practices for NZ use (versioning, confidentiality agreement)
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Dec. 13, 2017
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed) Amanda G. Brian Moore (Unlicensed) Karen Schlesser (Unlicensed) brandon dudley (Unlicensed)
- Regrets: Lauren Magnuson (Unlicensed), Alyssa Loera (Unlicensed)
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- ACRL:
- Webinar was well-attended; Ying Liu has been very good about copying us and adding our contact information to ACRL/IPEDS emails.
- NZ Analytics suddenly has a large number of similarly-named ACRL reports, probably from other campuses trying to run reports; many of these will not give the desired results.
- Action items: Create an official folder with our recommended analyses (Amanda G.) and others in group will test to be sure results are consistent and work for other campuses
- Primo Analytics:
- Neither TF member was present to report
- Resource Sharing TF:
- Making progress toward rota balancing metrics. Brian Moore (Unlicensed)has been working with Mallory DeBartolo (Unlicensed) to find an accurate metric for borrowing/lending stats (the basic Num Requests measure doesn't provide a distinct unduplicated count). Not possible in Analytics to create a report that uses more than one subject area and has filters that come from non-shared dimensions, so he is creating separate, appropriately-filtered reports for borrowing and lending and combining in Excel.
- New request to create report to identify returned CSU+ books inappropriately reshelved by the borrowing library instead of being shipped back to the lending campus. This is a common error that typically occurs if the patron has removed the book band or other ILL identifiers. Nikki DeMoville (Unlicensed)will work with local ILL staff to test a report of titles that have been checked in but not received by the lending campus within a reasonable window of time and then share the results with the RS TF and hand off to Mallory for scheduling and distribution to other campuses as appropriate.
- Fulfillment:
- Amanda G.is working with the group on training needs, has shared training resources pages from our wiki; Fulfillment group wants to do some analytics/reporting webinars
- Resource Management:
- Agreed to do a TS Open Forum presentation on NZ Analytics after the first of the year. Will call for volunteers when date is settled. Everyone should be thinking about what reports would be useful to share with the TS audience.
- Data Visualization:
- Will get going sometime early next year. Discussed difficulties in getting access to Tableau on various campuses. Problem may be license expense. Per brandon dudley (Unlicensed) there is no consortial deal at this time. May want to explore the idea once this group has some proof-of-concept demonstrations in place.
- Update from Brandon:
- Deans interested in a "Deans' Dashboard." Will need to gather information regarding what they would consider useful.
- Deans interested in CSU+ metrics and assessment. This is a high priority for the RS joint task force (rota balancing is highest due to operational impact). Mallory has made good progress in identifying appropriate metrics.
- Brandon will reach out to the COLD Assessment Team (CAT) to put them in touch with our group for Alma/Primo data needs. Several members of CAT are from Cal Poly SLO, Fullerton, and San Jose, which may facilitate communication.
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Nov. 16, 2017
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville, Brian Moore, Karen Schlesser, Alyssa Loera, Brandon Dudley
- Regrets: Lauren Magnuson, Moon Kim, Amanda Grombly
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- Amanda (via email): working with Fulfillment group on Analytics training; looking at reports for ACRL
- Primo Analytics task group: using Google Analytics to compare with Primo Analytics--want to understand better what Primo is reporting, and how trustworthy the data is
- Lauren and Alyssa have been looking at Tableau
- Discussion, suggestion that Data Visualization deserves its own task group
- Lauren, Alyssa, and Karen will organize, put out a call for additional volunteers outside the Analytics group
- Webinars: TS Open Forum 11/16/17; ACRL Stats webinar 12/5/17
- Other task groups: working on their own, no specific progress to report at this time
- Question raised by Amanda about training in tools like Excel
- Discussion: this kind of basic training is outside of our charge
- However, CSU does provide some resources like Skillport
- Group will develop a wiki page with training resources for various tools
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Oct. 18, 2017
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville, Brian Moore, Moon Joo Kim, Amanda Grombly, Karen Schlesser, Brandon Dudley, Lauren Magnuson, Alyssa Loera
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- Volunteers to work with:
- Possibly doing some short demos during their weekly open forum
- weeding?
- Fulfillment (Amanda)
- Tech Services (Karen, Brian)
- ACRL
- Status report
- Messaging
- What can we do in the NZ that will answer the same questions for all campuses, and how do we deliver that data?
- NZ analytics
- Legacy, IZ - Physical Circ stats, Expenditures
- Who needs?
- When to use?
- getting some questions regarding when to use NZ or IZ
- probably need to clarify on the wiki
- Joint task force updates
- Discovery
- Resource Sharing
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Sep. 20, 2017
Attendees
- Nikki DeMoville - E-Res & Res Sharing coordinator @ San Luis Obispo
- Alyssa Loera - Digital Serv & Technology, Head @ Pomona
- Brian Moore - ILS Mgr. @ San Diego
- Moon Joo Kim - Acquisitions Librarian @ Fullerton
- Amanda Grombly - Collection Dev & Mgmt coordinator @ Bakersfield
- Karen Schlesser - Library Data Mgmt Coordinator Tech Svcs @ San Jose
- Brandon Dudley - Project Dir., ULMS; CO committee rep
- Mike DeMars (guest) - Discovery Group Chair; Systems Librarian @ Fullerton
- Regrets: Lauren Magnuson - Collection Mgmt & Tech Svcs, Head @ San Marcos
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