2019-10-03 Meeting notes

1:03-1:20

Updates on Open Forum

move to delay open forum to 11/7 due to illness, etc.

• intending to cover letters

  • Mallory has made a request (from the RSFC) to address if/then statements. Will get more specific information about what that means in resource sharing.

  • Options to create a footer indicating that the letter is sent from a particular desk/location in the library

• anonymization - idea to start with open discussion to see how libraries are handling this. Who’s using it and how? Who’s not and why?

1:10-1:20

Anonymization

potential drawbacks

• losing number of unique users?

• loss of checkout history in Primo

some institutions don’t anonymize because of losing the last patron data to be able to charge for damage. But you can retain the last user for a given period of time and then anonymize them.

There can be baby steps to anonymization - it doesn’t have to be an all or nothing deal. You can retain some data and anonymize the rest. That may be part of the recommendations we can make - a how to begin anonymization and see how it affects your data

Does ALA have guidelines? Are we still under very restrictive patriot act related recommendations? Still waiting to hear back from the data security people at the CO about what official policy we have in the CSU

1:20-1:45

Course Reserves Coordinator interviews

Chico - Leganto implementation is different than at San Marcos. Not fully integrated into the reserves module and having trouble with ebooks. $14k budget for course reserves. Don’t automatically place books library owns on reserve, Faculty need to submit a form to place on reserve.

Bakersfield

Dominguez Hills - branded textbook rentals “Toro Textbook Library”. Got $50k for their rental program. Rent 1 book for every 40 students. Able to cover every course. Beginning of term classroom announcements have been really successful and faculty are very receptive. Would love to see more media and general course materials collected (eg microscopes, bone boxes, etc.)

Northridge - ASI grant they’ve been getting annually to fund course reserves. Keep everything for a minimum of 5 years which adds a lot to their collection (5-6,000 items). Large staff, 1 full time staff plus 6-7 students. Has noticed that the cost of the book seems to be a more important use predictor rather than class size.

Most campuses with budgets for this seem to be funded by grants or additional student fees. Would be interesting to see if we can develop some documentation or guidelines on how libraries got these funds so other campuses can do the same. Would also be interesting to see if the well-funded campuses have increased checkout/student rates as a result.

People don’t seem to keep much stats on course reserves. Nobody so far is sending data to faculty.

Some people have an Affordable Learning Solutions librarian who checks the bookstore lists. San Marcos has a committee but not a librarian. Fullerton doesn’t have a librarian either. The more creative programs appear to have more flexible and supportive managers who allow coordinators to try new things. Also if they are involved and engaged with other departments (rather than just putting stickers on the item and cataloging appropriately) they tend to do more with their reserves.

May want to create a report similarly formatted to Brandon’s annual ULMS check-in call report with an added section on how individual campuses can take action to improve Course Reserves or implement some of the noted programs.

1:45-1:48

Last thoughts

Jamie: working on patron purge information for open forum. Two reports in Unverified folder - users and users with purge dates. Need to have them verified before open forum.