spot report, or, what we've been doing all year
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SPOT Report, or, what we've been doing all year . Summit Program Meeting, July 8, 2013 . FY 12-13 Members. Heidi Nance, Chair, UW Kate Cabe, Chair-elect, WWU Melissa Treichel, WU Will Parnell, PCC Amy Waite, Clark Danny Smith, PCC Nancy Hoover, Council Liaison, Marylhurst - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
SPOT Report, or, what we've been doing all year
Summit Program Meeting, July 8, 2013
FY 12-13 Members
• Heidi Nance, Chair, UW
• Kate Cabe, Chair-elect, WWU
• Melissa Treichel, WU
• Will Parnell, PCC
• Amy Waite, Clark
• Danny Smith, PCC
• Nancy Hoover, Council Liaison, Marylhurst
• Anya Arnold, Alliance Staff
How we decided what to work on
We took what we heard from Summiteers ...
• More communication!
• Work on the website!
• We like the Profiles idea!
• Keep NRE going!
Plus what we heard from Council and the Board ...
• Future of Integrated Library Systems (SILS)
• Why is Summit use declining?
Goals for the year
Shared ILS, part 1
• Weekly phone calls with the SILS Circulation Working Group
• Weekly Phone calls with Ex Libris and OCLC
• Bi-weekly, later weekly, all-SPOT phone calls
• One-on-one calls with Bill Kelm and OCLC to test NCIP --> Alma
• Buddy Cohort 1 library NRE --> Alma --> NRE testing phone calls
• End-to-end testing with each Cohort 1 library
...and many, many Google docs.
Shared ILS, part 2
Topics • Discovery • Availability• Authentication• Getting to brief results screen• Setting up partners in Alma • Checkout with no patron• Loan periods • How to migrate old temporary records
created during the circulation freeze
NRE Upgrades
• Typical Process o Get, review documentationo Test, resolve problemso Set dateo Communicate o Remove & replace button o Test, verify functionality, sound all-clear
• Upgrades this yearo November 27 to 6.2.1 (we were on 5.1!)o May 1 to VDX 7.0
• Melissa Treichel's Testing Document
Communication
• Individual phone calls
• SPOT-rep o October 22nd | Role of a SPOT-rep
• Open SPOT calls o November 2 | Why are ILL books coming to Summit? o April 5th | What to talk about at Summit Day?
• Blog - turned into website-posting of ...
• Anya's Weekly Emails
Statistics ... more later
Website ... coming later
Profiles ... coming later
What we learned
• Communication, communication, communication.
• Persistence really does pay off. And is necessary.
• Every member library is unique.
• Conference Call Etiquette 101o You need to mute your phone o Don't trust your mute buttono If your institution has hold music, don't put the conference call on
"hold"
RIP, In memory of ...Heidi's Work Phone
2004-2012