2019-10-17 Meeting notes

Collaboration with RSFC regarding CSU+ Loan Periods

· RSSC talking about the 60 day loan period being too short. (Joe Adkins)

o This was brought up at the Summer ULMS meeting.

o Want to update to 16 weeks, instead of 60 days.

o Working on gathering evidence and gather opinions about possibly making this shift.

o Want to base this decision on evidence.

· Possible pitfalls/feedback?

o Would renewals be better? Or just updating the loan period?

o Are all campuses doing renewals? Are all the loan policies the same?

o Christine brought up the issue of all items being checked out for an extended period of time would make it more difficult for users to get.

§ Many counter points were brought up, including that even if items are no longer available through CSU+, that the item can be gotten through Illiad or other means.

§ Should focus on “what would be best for most” not rare exceptions.

· Loan periods are also very variable throughout the CSU system throughout system, which might present a problem when trying to standardize CSU+ loan periods.

o Especially CSUs that have shorter loan periods for their local material.

· Initially the CSU+ loans for media/books were standardized at COLD.

· What if concerns are brought up about media as opposed to general collection books?

· Suggestions were made to get data to rebut all concerns.

· First thing might be to gather information.

· All of RSSC and Christine from Fulfillment can work on gathering information.

· Some Analytics reports

o Average CSU+ check out time?

o How long overdue do they keep it?

o Information on renewals? Or re-requesting the same book over and over again?

· Meghann met with Zach who has done this (from a big 10 school). Mallory suggested that we piggyback on their data and see what reports that were made.

o Meghann said that we can use some of the reports, but not all as they made a different path.

o Looked at part of that presentation.

· What are the risks of longer loan periods?

o Patrons have a greater chance of losing material.

o Fear of the unknown.

o Hopefully data should help alleviate some concerns (look at the loss rate)

· If we find out that there isn’t a need for it, then no need to extend the loan period.

· Look at the data to see if 60 days is sufficient.

· Taskforce will meet and Christine will report back to the FFC.