2020-07-17 Discovery Function Committee Meeting notes

12PM

Welcome & Introductions

@Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed) and all

• Note: ULMS At-Large reps: @Mike DeMars (Unlicensed) and @Nerissa Lindsey are welcome to attend future meetings.

Review cmte. charge

@Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed) @David Walker

Calendar planning for regular meetings

All

1PM, 3rd Friday of the month

AY 20-21 goals discussion

All

• Testing of new GetIt menu

  • Bring in Zach

  • How might ‘new’ GetIt menu be impacted by Primo VE?

  • Apparent problems in the AngularJS code at present.

• Improve documentation about potential fixes and tweaks e.g. COVID19 ribbon in Primo

• Advanced Search problems at some campus?

• Newspapers Search further evaluation?

  • Open Forum topic?

    • How to hide NP facet documentation

• Primo icon project

  • (Cathy O. volunteered)

• Open forum about pandemic-related request features

AY 20-21 assigned task: Primo VE evaluation

@Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed) @David Walker

• Going from Primo to Primo VE: The New Self-Switch Process https://youtu.be/Am85HSt9RI0

• Primo VE https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE

Other pressing issues discussion

• CDI problems

Andrew Carlos and others

• Duplicate records

  • ebooks, streaming content

• collections showing in Primo and aren’t activated in Alma?

• turnaround time between activation and seeing effects in Production

• Need for an open forum (not necessarily Disco open forum) about CDI

• Changes in terminology ('Database' is ‘Collection’)

• Need to open Salesforce cases about duplicate records; Ex Libris is reportedly addressing them when reported

  • When opening up a case, begin the subject line with ‘CDI’.

  • For details see: https://calstate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UEC/pages/928972927

First Disco Open Forum Topic: Request Features for Pandemic Services

Christian Ward

• CW will present about request option implemented at Sac State.

  • Piggy back on presentation with Meghann Weldon from Humboldt?