2022-08-19 Systems Minutes
Attendees
Gordana Vitez (Chair), Niagara College - gvitez@niagaracollege.ca
Lingling Jiang, Sheridan College - lingling.jiang@sheridancollege.ca
Dana Schwarz, Niagara College - dschwarz@niagaracollege.ca
Amanda Van Mierlo, Humber College - amanda.vanmierlo@humber.ca
Rebecca Pearson, Lambton College - rebecca.pearson@lambtoncollege.ca
Jennifer Mo, OCLS - jmo@ocls.ca
Aura Hill, OCLS - ahill@ocls.ca
Liana Giovando, OCLS - lgiovando@ocls.ca
Lauren Rupert, Consultant
Regrets
Tony Onorato, Fanshawe College - aonorato@fanshawec.ca
Thomas Guignard, OCLS - tguignard@ocls.ca
Action Items
Discussion Items
Update from the ISC
Implementation Steering Committee: This group is researching replacements for the Basecamp platform to allow colleges to continue communicating on a one-on-one basis. This replacement will act as a temporary solution, or “stop-gap”, before a more permanent solution is introduced at a later date. We encourage everyone to vote on which platform would be best suited for the interim use of the committees: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=tAn_DF4wiEyykX-d8Bj00J1Rn24IwrVAvGDndyfDB1pUMDRDWU41UUZMTklHUTQyM0JQTkVYRUJINS4u
Metadata and Cataloguing Subcommittee - CLO metadata standards (25 material type standards) - insane spreadsheet - being made into a LibGuide that is consumable. bring up the level of cat standards in the consortium. Also working on Workflow (import profiles, stand-alone records) in line with their CLO Metadata standards
User Experience Subcommittee - The user experience subcommittee has reached a decision on how to support the Decolonizing the College Catalogue Committee and the Indigenous Matters committee. The UX subcommittee is working on a list of LCC subjects that can either be edited or deleted in Primo VE. The subcommittee will be releasing a briefing note for guidance. The list of terms being provided by the subcommittee are a starting point and are by no means definitive, nor are they being recognized as the ‘most important terms to be corrected. The subcommittee is also preparing a briefing note regarding resource sharing though this is in the preliminary stages.
Update on Analytics Report Research
Update from Lingling:
Reports to display “Annual Counts” are available - with the option to select/review a specific year
A report/dashboard to display information like loans, in-house usage, renewals, overall circulation statistics, etc. is available
Reports to display “Items Loaned by Patron Group” are available
Reports to display “Patron Physical Requests by Year” (trending analysis) are available
There are other reports available in addition to the above mentioned
All of the above reports can be modified to allow the “annual period” to match the needed dates of the CLO reports
Update from Rebecca:
Many of the inventory questions can be answered by looking at the “physical” and “e-inventory” dashboard
There are inventory “issues” when one is not connected to the Network Zone - there are two features that have to be enabled to properly connect to the Network Zone
To receive reports mark the “Analytics Catalogue Available” as “true” (*INFORM*)
To see full inventory options mark “Analytics Network Inventory” as “true” - this will allow you to see other institutions' inventory (mostly e-inventory) and they will be able to see yours as well. Doing this will allow you to receive fuller/more accurate inventory reports
Turning these two things on does NOT change the dashboard in the sense that it continues to display only resources relevant to your institution.
Other:
ACTION ITEM: @Rebecca Pearson and @Lingling Jiang to add the links/paths to individual reports to the found reports to the excel spreadsheet for @Jennifer Mo (Unlicensed) to refer to.
ACTION ITEM: @Jennifer Mo (Unlicensed) to add new reports identified by @Rebecca Pearson and @Lingling Jiang to a “Shared Reports” folder; these reports can be modified at a later date. However, they are meant at the moment to reflect, as best they can, to the reports currently run by CLO
Future Action Item: to begin a briefing note to inform colleges on setting recommendations for report access.
Feedback on Sandbox Management Guidelines (Deferred)
The committee began addressing feedback presented by Amanda Van Mierlo. The discussion had to be cut short due to time constraints.
ACTION ITEM: @Everyone to read the feedback posted by Amanda Van Mierlo and be prepared to discuss at the next meeting - Re: 2022-08-19 Systems Agenda | Comment
Rescheduling Sept 2 meeting
The next meeting of the System, Analytics, and Data Subcommittee will be on August 26th at 11 am
Any other items
Parking Lot Discussion Items
Be aware that eResources activated in NZ or IZ should not affect colleges' ability to pull eResources data in Alma Analytics. Tests may be needed to make sure eResources-related reports work as expected.
Discussion of role of the SAD subcommittee post Go Live. See Orbis Cascade Alliance Systems Committee for an example: Systems Documentation