2020-01-15 Steering Committee Meeting notes

Owned by Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sept 10, 2021 by Christian Ward (Unlicensed)
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Date

Jan 15, 2020

Participants

  • @Andrew Carlos (Unlicensed)

  • @Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed)

  • @David Walker

  • @Zacharry Williams (Unlicensed)

  • Renaldo Gjoshe

  • Mary Wegmann

  • Paul Hottinger

Goals

  • Background on Controlled Digital Lending: via Mark Bilby, CSU Fullerton

I just wanted to report a topic that came up during the ScholComm meeting today regarding the possibility to include Open Library collections within Alma/Primo. Mark Bilby has information on this as the Open Library folks seemed interested in integrations. The proposal is a Open Library partnership pilot to serve campus preferential collections from the Open Library in our collections.

 

The discussion seemed to focus on whether this should go to EAR or to ULMS Discovery. I think discovery was pinged for the technical piece, where Patrick and others expressed interest in seeing first whether it could be done. The Open Library API docs are here, for reference : https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api. Afterward, I think the idea expressed from Patrick was to move the proposal to EAR for decision making.

Discussion topics

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Open forum ideas

@Andrew Carlos (Unlicensed)

  • Maybe one in early to mid-February?

    • New central discovery index? Could be interesting to note in an open forum - will Tech Services group do something? (joint with them, if so)

    • Whirlwind tour of new and upcoming features in Primo

      • Everyone needs to update their new email template from the November release



Custom uresolver testing


@David Walker

@Zacharry Williams (Unlicensed)

  • Not gotten much feedback

  • How do we encourage people to turn it on?

  • Need for guided assistance

  • Can we encourage everyone in the group to turn it on

  • Maybe a follow up in March

 

Research projects using Primo

@Andrew Carlos (Unlicensed)

@Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed)

  • Central repository for research projects would be nice, could use the wiki

  • Have them contact Andrew so we can create a page on the wiki for this

  • Are there other research questions that we can work on?

    • People don’t like the label (No Full Text)

 

Controlled Digital Lending investigation

@David Walker

  • Is this feasible for us to implement?

  • Do we even want to do it (collection development issue)?

  • Any academic libraries already signed on to this (public, betterworldbooks are already involved)

  • Ask on listservs to see if anyone is already doing it

  • Reach out to the CSU to see who is interested

  • Open Forum idea - february

 

Error in the Bx mapping table

@Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed)

  • email discovery list to get them to fix it?

  • David will explore if he can fix it for everyone in one swoop (email Andrew by friday if not possible)

    • N.b. David fixed this for everyone after the meeting.

 

Consider voting for an Idea Exchange item about the Internet Archive

@Gabriel Gardner (Unlicensed)

https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-content/suggestions/31913188-internet-archive

Action items

Fix error in bX mapping table (done already by @David Walker )
Consider voting for Internet Archive in the Idea Exchange if you have spare votes
Steering committee members are encouraged to reach out to those in a position to make a custom view for new GetIt/Uresolver testing
Campus Discovery Leads should be sure to update their new Primo email template (this will be topic of discussion at next Open Forum)
@Andrew Carlos (Unlicensed) will make a page on the wiki for campuses to put up possible Primo research project ideas

Decisions

  1. Next Open Forum will be held in February, 19th

Recording available

https://csueb.zoom.us/rec/play/upUtJOCr-D03GNLG5ASDA_d6W43rKKqs0yhI8_NczhnmViUAZgakMrARN-bLDZq5VYY3bOzkAAEXw44N?continueMode=true