2023-09-22 ULMS Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

Date

Sep 22, 2023

Time

1-2:30p

Zoom

https://calstate.zoom.us/j/81777140167?pwd=S3ZIeGc2ZWVzdTExQnlCV3NKQXZlZz09

Participants

@John Wenzler, @Christina Hennessey (Unlicensed), Marianne Foley, @Natalya Magazino, @Keven Jeffery, @Kirstie Genzel, @Gabriel Castaneda, @Nerissa Lindsey, @Priscilla Ortiz, @David Walker, @Chris Lee, @Jessica Hartwigsen

Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

10m

Introductions

All

 

5m

COLD Update

John
David

  • COLD agenda

  • Recent statement opposed to banning books

  • New proposals around transformative agreements

  • Equitable access to textbooks

  • Strategic planning

15m

ECAUG

All

  • Conference debrief

    • Positive responses from those who attended

    • Focus was on ERM, resource sharing

      • discussions on west coast resource sharing

      • getting more CA libraries into pods

      • lots of troubleshooting session

    • Good to see people in person

      • 'new' CSU folks

      • counterparts UC, CCC, others

    • Considering locations for next year

  • Making statewide engagement a goal?

10m

Rapido patron feedback

Chris

  • Optional for services

  • Survey would go to patrons in system-generated email when

    • request is fulfilled

    • request is cancelled

  • through the Fall semester

  • Chris can implement this for any campus

  • will clarify in wording that we are focused on CSU+

45m

Committee Updates

Natalya
Keven
Kirstie
Gabriel
Nerissa
Chris (for Priscilla)

  • Goals for the year

  • Vice chair selection

  • Task forces

  • Other updates

(See below)

10m

Open forums

Nerissa

  • Survey folks on what they want to see for open forums

    • more separate, more joint?

    • outside speakers (from UC, etc.) to see how they are doing things?

    • maybe not so presentation-focused?

  • Christina will help work on this

5m

Data task force?

Keven

  • Lots of data issues in Discovery from CDI, GTI & Alma

  • also from ScholarWorks, other repos

    • IRWG interested in working with ULMS to address

  • Christina will help on this

 

Committee

Updates

Committee

Updates

Analytics

  • Goals

    • Developing an analytics management plan

      • things are getting cluttered, outdated, looking to clean-up

      • will bring to Steering for feedback

    • Rapido dashboard

      • need journal request report to see most freq. requested journal titles

      • general improvements

    • Monthly office hours

      • show and tell for exemplary reports

      • general troubleshooting

    • SUSHI

  • Stacie Jensen (Sacramento) as Vice Chair

Discovery

  • Goals

    • Data issues

      • Reconsider FRBR & dedup

      • impact of GTI & CDI on discovery experience

      • need to gather and report the problems

    • Mobile experience

      • advocate for improvements w/ ExL

  • Ken Harold (Los Angeles) as Vice Chair

  • VE Testers Team

    • led by Hana Lee (Dominguez Hills)

  • Looking to increase engagement with Resource Management

ERM

  • Goals

    • Trying to coordinate work with other functional committees since so many issues cross groups

    • Licenses

      • Best practices and workflows

      • Rapid ILL lending note

    • Fixing up Confluence documentation

      • making it more topically focused

      • update the content as it changes frequently

  • Monthly office hours

  • Greta Heng (San Diego) as Vice Chair

Fulfillment

  • Just getting started and haven’t met yet

  • Goals will include general fulfillment survey

Resource Mgmnt.

  • Goals

    • Secondary resource types

      • need to coordinate with the campuses, get feedback on what is needed

    • FRBR / dedup

    • Clean-up documentation

    • Perhaps best practice on outsourcing (e.g., Backstage)

  • Kurt Hanselman (San Diego) as Vice Chair

  • Linked Data Task Force

    • looking to update their approach

    • Wiki data focused on campus buildings

    • connecting with DAWG

  • Inclusive Description Task Force

    • discuss the possibility of adding the genre facet to Primo (probably an RMFC topic)

    • continue with Homosaurus mapping and begin GSSO mapping (more medical terms)

    • headings for Native Nations and peoples in California

    • LCSH projects

    • CritCat Reading Group

    • Need to recruit more

  • Can IDTF work be given some visibility from Chancellor’s Office communication?

    • yes, group asked to write something up for inclusion in CSU Libraries website

Resource Sharing

  • Want to continue Rapido refreshers

    • retooled to cover basics, esp. for new staff

  • Open forum next week on NERS process

Action items

Decisions