2019-11-21 Meeting notes

Date

Nov 21, 2019

Participants

  • @Mallory DeBartolo (Unlicensed) (notes)

  • Jamie Lamberti

  • Jaime Serrano

  • Christine Evans

  • Kelly Ann Sam

Regrets: Kevin, Kim

Discussion topics

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Note rotation

  • Updated. it was all out of whack because of cancelled meetings, etc.


Open Forum Recap

  • Kevin sent out recording but we didn’t bother to take minutes. Oops. Kelly Ann will listen and take notes with time stamps to post.

  • Patron purge documentation posted. Christine is working up courage to purge patrons. More tips posted on Alma-L shortly after the forum

Course Reserves Interviews / Analytics

  • What exactly are we wanting from analytics?

  • Mallory says that trying to go into analytics and look for something general is hard. Analytics is more effective if you have a specific task or idea you’re looking to capture.

  • Long ago Jaime was tasked with getting total number of reading lists and courses but got stuck and couldn’t figure out an elegant way to provide an easy/usable count of what he produced

  • Since campuses do things differently (ex: using a new course and reading list every semester vs. keeping repeats in the rotation) Kelly Ann worries about the accuracy of an OTB report we might create.

  • Jamie thinks maybe the best course of action is to help Kevin and Kelly Ann compile interview data and figure out end game or next steps after that.

  • Kelly Ann: campuses seem very interested in what other libraries are doing while most don’t seem interested in collecting analytics. General philosophy that goes along with this idea is that a single use by a student makes buying the item worth it and also faculty don’t ask for data. However data can be used to lobby for more materials and increased CR budgets.

    • Kelly Ann willing to show statistics she keeps on her courses. Great to show in an open forum what we can get and how it can be used.

  • Maybe we could focus on course reserves in the next open forum - present some general findings from the interviews, SLO textbook buy-back program, Kelly Ann’s stats

CSU+ Loan Period

Nothing has been accomplished yet but meeting to discuss next steps today t 2pm