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| 25min | ULMS Governance Update | Carlos Rodriguez
David Walker
brandon dudley (Unlicensed) | - Overall support form COLD on governance document
- Continuing members of Steering Committee:
- David and Brandon will continue in their ex officio roles
- Carlos will be chair of Steering Committee
- John Wenzler will be vice-chair of Steering Committee
- Rae Ann and Suzanna are planning to continue
- Nikki will chair Analytics
- Luiz will chair Resource Management
- Chris Lee will chair Resource Sharing
- Fulfillment, Discovery, and Acq-ERM chairs will step down
- Replaced by an existing functional committee member, unless no one else volunteers
- Current chairs should offer up nominations
- Request for nomination for new members will go out in May, to be filled in June
- Steering committee will select chairs and (for the first time) vice-chairs for functional committees
- Next year will include more strategic planning
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| 5min | COLD update | | - Three Resource Sharing policies reviewed
- Priority of CSU+ over other options accepted
- Loan period was accepted, but with a single loan period for both media and books
- $90 replacement fee change was tabled to see how often it occured
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| 5min | FRBR Discussion | David Walker
Mike DeMars (Unlicensed) | Recommendation to turn off FRBR. - Erroneous groupings
- Mitigated with light tweaking to date
- Considered more extensive changes
- Will always present ongoing problems and work
- Problems during renorm
- Records in FRBR groups are inaccessible
- Extends renorm process by 8-12 hours
- Essentially preventing us from renorms mid-term
- Usability is not great
- Users have to click into and then back out of groups
- Especially in CSU scope
Consensus was to turn it off. |
| 5 min | ULMS Summer meeting update | | - Looking to combine topics into three sessions
- There are some practical limits in terms of space
- May or may not ultimately result in attendance limits per-campus
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| 20 min | Committee Updates | | ACQ/ERM - GOBI
- Have surveyed campuses around problems in GOBI ordering in Alma
- Want to make sure GOBI is setting holdings in OCLC correctly
- Resolving other issues between GOBI and Ex Libris
- Reviewing strategies for new functionality in May release to move portfolios
Resource Sharing - Have been working with Fulfillment (see below)
- Have posted a lot of guides to the wiki, but still have a lot more to do
Discovery - Changed meeting schedule to drop regular meeting, let task forces work on deliverables
- New features in the Central Package – including Google Analytics, SMS, report a problem – being wrapped up
- Group has compiled list of OneSearch tutorials
- New round of user testing will start soon
- May release is coming, including new feature for newspaper view
- Enhancement voting underway
Fulfillment - Met with Resource Sharing to go over joint topics, will have joint session next week
- Task force working on procedures for:
- Overdues and notices
- Visiting patrons
- Lost items for CSU+ and ILL
- Have done some work with Analytics group in organizing shared reports in Analytics
- Working on policies to ensure proper set-up of TOUs
- May open forum will focus on information sharing from ELUNA
Resource Management - Continue to discuss and assess impact of and compliance to policies as well as need for new policies
- Continue to revise best practices and procedures, as needed, in support of efficiencies
- e.g., MARC Holdings Format to allow libraries to accept Alma default values for single-part items; Publishing to OCLC
- Continue to respond to requests for training and procedures
- e.g., Digital Bookplates; Canceling/Closing Orders and Impact to NZ records)
- including identifying topics and trainers for weekly TS Open Forums
- Continue to provide weekly digest of Slack postings on resource management issues to the ULMS TS list
- Identified topics and CSU expert trainers for session(s) during the Ex Libris-CSU Summer Training
- NZ restore record problem resolved. Records restored for CSU (thanks to Marcus Jun).
- Upcoming: Review Notes fields display in Primo to submit recommendations to the Norm Rule Task Force.
Analytics - Data Visualization Task Force is working on a simple proof-of-concept for a "dean's dashboard."
- Exploring both Alma Analytics, Tableau, and other things
- Offered recommendations on Analytics enhancement
- EAR is creating a sub-committee led by Carol at Long Beach on system-wide usage
- Six campuses have yet to set-up any COUNTER usage stats in Alma
- Providing examples to Ex Libris for real-life training in Analytics
- Moon on an ELUNA group ta
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