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I-Share Acquisitions/Serials Team Minutes
March 16, 2007
Present: Cindy Fuller, MIL; JoAnn Hounshell, IIT Kent; Ete Olson, NIU; Tammy Schnell, LLC; Ted Schwitzner, NCC; Todd Spires, BRA; Anne Hudson, CARLI; Jen Masciadrelli, CARLI
Absent: Ann Riley, SIE; Wendy Shelburne, UIU; Rachel Wightman, NPU
Special Guest via Phone: Carlos Melian, NEI, IUG Board Liaison
- Approve minutes: Minutes from the February 2, 2007 are not yet available.
- IUG update:
From the February IUG meeting:
- The Cataloging/Authority Team is still planning the March 20 forum.
- The Resource Sharing forum scheduled for February 14 was cancelled due to snow, but has been rescheduled for April 18 at Kankakee Community College. The IUG’s mentor project has 15 participants who would like a mentor, and 15 participants who volunteered to be a mentor.
- The Instruction Team continues to revise the tutorials and hopes to be finished by the end of February. They also need to fill a vacancy on the team.
- The OPAC Team has made a recommendation for keyword indexing in holdings records. The team is strongly recommending that some usability testing be done. This is an ongoing and thoughtful discussion that will continue at the March IUG meeting.
- IUG Chair’s mid-year report is now available on the CARLI website.
- CARLI update: New library implementation has begun. All new libraries have received basic Voyager module training and are in the midst of system and data review.
Test loads have begun. Patron data should be loaded by the end of March.
The New Books List for local libraries is almost ready. The Team saw a preview of the product.
There are still problems with installing Analyzer.
The reports server access appears to be stable again after creating new Oracle instances for DePaul and ISU. CARLI will continue to move each library to its own instance of Oracle.
Hopefully there will be an announcement at the April EndUser’s meeting regarding the future of Voyager.
- Upcoming term vacancies (what is the IUG process and timeline?): IUG will look at the database of volunteers to see if anyone is available to fill the vacancies. Ete Olson, and Rachel Wightman end their term in May. A replacement must also be found to fill the remainder of Ann Riley’s term.
- Prep for open call: The team discussed possible scenarios handling questions from the open call.
- Publication patterns discussion – how should we share examples and information among I-Share Libraries?: Several possibilities were discussed including video conferences periodically; posting Endeavor’s canned product spreadsheet which would provide the publication patterns used by libraries; develop a Camtasia tutorial. The team decided to get feedback from the open call participants. Anne’s Feb 5th e-mail & tables regarding pub patterns: Anne will check to see how many and what complex publication patterns are actually being used by I-Share libraries.
The next Acquisitions/Serials Team meeting will by April 20.
Other dates to remember:
IApril 19: Illinois Legislative Day
April 26-28 : Voyager EndUser’s Meeting (Schaumburg, IL)
May 1 & 2: National Legislative Day(s)
May 18: Acquisitions/Serials Team meeting
June 14: Acquisitions/Serials Team meeting followed by the open conference call
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