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Sharing and Updates

Share any Discovery related information from other SILS groups

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RMG will be revisiting using the 520 field to exclude items from the Discovery Network. The 520 displays in Primo, so we may want to test normalization that will only display 520s that do not contain the specific text RMG will end up using.

Search History setting from August doesn’t seem to be showing.

Official protocol for adding custom resource types to the NZ

Finalize draft

Adding Custom Resource Types to the Network Zone

Gem will test in the sandbox

WorldCat Link Updates

Review spreadsheet and offer suggestions or input.

Gem

“It sounds like many of the existing custom links don’t currently work and since WCD is no longer our primary discovery layer they’d like to standardize what is entered.  They are proposing replacing existing custom links with 3 links for each campus and CDL: 1) Off-campus Access 2) UC Library Search 3) Library Website. “

Resources link is out of date at some, maybe all campuses.

Do people have opinions?

Are the links correct?

All: Provide feedback on the spreadsheet by next meeting.

Addition of new member

Decide on adding a new member or not.

Joshua

“I have a new developer on my team that will be the point person for Primo. Over time, she will know the answers to this group's questions about our local setup that I currently cannot answer. I think it would be better for her to attend the meetings.
However, I think I can provide value too by keeping an eye on the bigger picture and advocating for things that are important but which can often be neglected due to the deluge of daily work or the power of the vendor.
And that got me thinking about what we have done so far. I think over the past 3 months we have mostly been reacting to issues from other SILS groups or from ExLibris and we have not carved out time to think about our collective goals for a shared discovery interface and what actions we should take to achieve them. In our initial meeting we had discussed doing coordinated usability testing to help create a roadmap of improvements. I'd like to pick up that topic again and move forward with it.”

We’ll have Zoe start attending the meetings as a guest until we get the subteam thing going.

How will we move forward ensuring that we are working on collective goals while also handling the backlog from phase 4 and issues generated by other groups and Ex Libris?

Tentative: Discovery UX Subteam

Review and agree upon draft proposal to create an expertise based UX subteam

The current Discovery Subteam is not sufficient in and of itself to handle the broad range of expertise needed to tackle the backlog and future work plan.
We want to separate the team into an expertise based Configuration team that makes changes in Primo and an expertise based UX team that does testing and provides feedback.

Joshua will draft a proposal to create an expertise based UX subteam that is an official part of SILS and linked to the Discovery Subteam, that focuses on usability improvements to the UC Library search experience.

Coordinated Usability Testing

Which campuses will participate?

Who will run point?

What’s the end goal?

Joshua

This will get kicked down the road a little while until we get the UX Subteam going..

Review Workplan/Issues or bring up potential future projects

Wrap up

Review actions and decisions

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Parking Lot

Capture important topics for future discussion:

Discussion Parking Lot / Future Topics

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