ULMS Analytics & Assessment Functional Committee met Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11am-noon
ELUNA conference session related to Analytics has been announced for May 16, 2022 (titled: Updates: DEI, Primo, and Analytics) and will be held 10am-1pm Pacific Time online and is free. More information to come from Ex Libris on registration.
The only session on Analytics at the whole conference is a report from the Analytics Community of Practice on their work in the last year from 11:20am-11:50am Pacific Time.
The sessions in ELUNA in May 2022 are still only Ex Libris presentations. The details for ELUNA Learns, which has been presentations from Ex Libris customers in the last two years, have not been announced yet but you can expect Analytics sessions at those.
The group continues to post Analytics & Assessment-related webinars on the Analytics wiki; there have not been many since the beginning of 2022.
The Analytics Community of Practice had a session with Ex Libris product managers on March 15, 2022 where they presented upcoming features and changes to Analytics in: Leganto, Primo, Esploro, and Rapido; Christina will distribute notes to the group.
The change for Primo Analytics being one day behind to being two days behind was moved from April 10, 2022 for US sites to April 24, 2022. Ex Libris has done a good job of communicating these changes on the Ex Libris status page, in release updates, and other communication.
This group should be ready to work closely with the Resource Sharing Functional Committee in 2022-2023 for new reports needed for Rapido Analytics.
There will be a call for new members for this group soon from the Chancellor’s Office, please recruit folks for the committee to coming years, especially if they are new to the CSUs or have never been on this committee. Nominations will be requested from library deans or you can share your interest with bdudley@calstate.edu.
The group could not find an available and agreeable date for a summer Analytics webinar/event for June 2022, unfortunately. As the committee will have a new make-up starting in July 2022, that group will plan something for later in the summer or Fall 2022 instead based on the results of the December 2021 survey.
The group worked on the top 3 Analytics issues to submit to Ex Libris in more detail from the customer satisfaction survey. Christina will be reaching out to some of the survey respondents for more details and will rewrite the issues, impact, and what a solution would look like by April 22, 2022.
The ULMS Resource Management Functional Committee met Tuesday, April 5, 2022 from 1-1:30 PM.
19 campuses have provided their Local Fields to Pam. The remaining campuses were sent reminders to submit them. The Local Fields page at Confluence will be updated by the end of April 2022 to account for these remaining campuses but will still be updated at the scheduled date if no other information is received.
The NZ Management Group reached out to CSU Cataloging Contacts regarding their NZ Refresh and coded "a" for archival records for corrections. The Group is waiting on a few campuses to respond but overall the cleanup for both issues has been taken care of.
The Inclusive Description Task Force has provided their Recommendation on handling LC's decision on the subject headings of "noncitizens" and "illegal immigration." The RMFC has approved the IDTF's Recommendation. Pam will submit the Recommendation to the Steering Committee for review and approval at the upcoming meeting.
The CSU TS Monthly Release Testing Group met on Monday, April 11, 2022 for their 2nd Quarter meeting of the year. An update of new releases is scheduled at the TS Open Forum in June. The Group will continue to meet quarterly despite the change in Ex Libris's release of new features schedule and will test bug fixes/resolved issues in the other months.
The RMFC has received the ULMS Survey issues for review to select which Top Three to address to Ex Libris. Final thoughts on these Top Three are due to Pam by tomorrow, Friday, April 15, 2022. Explanations will be forthcoming and turned in by Friday, April 22, 2022.
The RMFC landing page at Confluence has been updated to include a Task Forces and Groups section for easier navigation to those committees. The Inclusive Description Task Force now has a Confluence page. The CSU Cataloging Contacts has also been added to the RMFC page. Pam will request at the next TS Open Forum for updates to the Cataloging Contacts; the RMFC will continue to oversee and maintain the Contacts page.
The next ULMS RMFC meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 1 PM.