2018-02-09 Meeting notes

Date

Attendees

Discussion items

ItemWhoNotes
Planning the open meeting - new day and exactly what we will talk aboutAll
  • Rescheduled for 3/9
  • Policy follow up
  • Brief training:
    • What roles are needed for GMs to pop up as a task?
    • Add widget for task list and/or access through clipboard icon
    • Statuses/when to check them/what to do with them
    • General Messages - use these to communicate
  • Questions
Terms Of Use Mallory DeBartolo (Unlicensed)
  • Default configurations are not set up to enable recalls or block patrons if they have a long overdue CSU+ item
  • Mallory looking at the TOUs and writing up ideal configuration in their own institution to have CSU+ function as it should
  • Plan to host a session walking people through the configurations that need to occur to put COLD policies and approved functionality in place.
  • Would like to have things figured out by the end of next week (2/16)
Strategic Group TalkChris Lee (Unlicensed) and Mallory DeBartolo (Unlicensed)
    • What is our group doing? What should we do after our operational problems are solved and questions are answered?
    • Statistics are going to be important
      • Showcase the numbers to make people care about Resource Sharing
      • Benchmarks: Look at what campuses are doing well and share how they accomplish their goals
        • use statistics to identify who is doing a good job in specific areas (high lending numbers, low turnaround time, etc)
        • figure out why that’s the case
        • how can we scale what they’re doing to other campuses
      • Assessment of Resource Sharing
      • Important for us to tell our own story and have control over the narrative of CSU+ and Resource Sharing
      • Figure out ways to show cost savings to Deans and others interested in library/campus budgets. How is resource sharing directly supporting library strategic goals and CSU-wide initiatives?
        • faculty time, cost saving shipping via Tricor vs. mail)
        • How do increased loan periods save time or money?
        • just in case vs just in time collection dev philosophy
      • Share presentations that people have seen elsewhere with the group for inspiration
      • How can we provide visual cues to our users showing where things are coming from and how many things have been borrowed (on websites, etc)
    • Test updates and share information on how to work with the updates
    • Look into enhancement requests and how to improve Alma as a resource sharing tool

Action items

Deferred for next meeting