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Jan2009MinutesRSTG Meeting Present: Sasan Yousefpour, Nancy Patterson (Co-chair), LaTanya West (Minutes), Sharon Epps, Hongyan Sun, Megan Davis, Mark de Jong (Co-chair) Absent: Everly Brown Prior to agenda items: Sasan stated it was nice for the meetings to be held in different locations so that members could be more aware of what each library has to offer. Nancy suggested that people should feel free to offer their locations for future meetings. With notice, this may be possible. 1. ITD Update - Hongyan Sun a. Aleph "printing dispatch" testing update - Still working on this. LaTanya will ask for administrative permission on UMBC computers so that Hongyan can get remote access to try to make this operable. b. Aleph reports of manual registrations/renewals - Hongyan reported that doing a report for new registrations is pretty simple; however, renewals are more difficult because a patron's account may be updated for different reasons so it is hard to calculate an accurate count. ITD is hoping to have this report done this month. 2. ILL Subgroup Update - Sharon Epps a. SG recommendations - Sharon stated that there is an ILL Subgroup meeting scheduled on January 29, 2009 where they hope to finalize details of starting Phase I of the recommendation. b. Status of CLD-requested information re: OCLC-hosted ILLiad - CLD has invited the ILL Subgroup co-chairs to CLD Executive Meeting on January 15, 2009 to talk about OCLC proposal. Robin has asked for a quote for institutions doing over 20,000 in volume to determine whether it is beneficial to the current stand alone campuses to move OCLC hosting. c.(ADDED ITEM)- Sharon reported that the ILL Subgroup hopes to finalize information for the annual ILL meeting at their next meeting. 3. Circ Subgroup Update- LaTanya a. Circ Annual Meeting details - The annual circ meeting is scheduled for January 21, 2009 from 9a-1p in the UMBC Tech Center Auditorium. A continental breakfast will be provided. The agenda will be sent out this week along with a request for discussion topics. b. Active Cash Reports questions - passed on to CLD by 12/18? - RSTG forwarded the summary compiled by Lea Messman-Mandicott to CLD. Hans was at the last Circ Subgroup meeting to answer questions and explained that the report is a retention tool. The subgroup agreed that the report was only useful to individual campuses and using a "representative" sample was not likely to improve the understanding for each campus. General Discussion: Celia sent an email to the RSTG chairs outlining RSTG expectations in the SSN purge calendar. The purge deadline is March 1, 2009 with distinct steps to be followed by RSTG. In order to complete those steps, RSTG will do the following:
4. Chairs' Update - Mark and Nancy a. UITG would like to add public contact info for circ depts in CatUSMAI - Nancy has compiled the list and will forward it to UITG b. Rethinking Resource Sharing - IDS Project: http://www.idsproject.org - Mark reported that the Founder of IDS would be willing to do a presentation about the IDS Project software. Nancy will send an email to the ILL Subgroup about possibly inviting him (or showing the webinar) at the annual ILL meeting. Action Items:
Accomplishments for 2008:
Next RSTG meeting will be February 9, 2009 at the UMBC Tech Center, 10 am – 1 pm. LaTanya is note taker. Minutes submitted January 15, 2009 by LaTanya West |