2025-01-13 Meeting Notes

General Check-In

• discuss Alma release notes (if any)

• discuss anything relevant from All-Chairs

5

All

Meeting notes from ALL CHAIRS: 2024-12-03 All Chairs Meeting notes

Damaged AFN item form/process

5

Ross

Damaged Item form & process

Next Step:

• Provide feedback by next meeting 1/13

• Vote- during next meeting 1/13

• Pass to Operations Team for a solution to find a host for the form

Next Step:

Sandra and Ross will work on email to send to Operations team for a solution to find a host for the form

TeamModification of On Hold Shelf letter

5

Ross

Modification of On Hold Shelf letter

Question fro Sahra: the text block needs to be added to AFN hold notifications and not local hold notifications, correct? 

Feedback from UCLA: suggestion to change wording from “you will NOT be able to borrow…” to “you MAY not be able to borrow…”

Next Step:

• Make sure all institutions have made the change by end of January 2025

AFN Billing Practices

5

Sandra

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RCbMonyXuYYhMsbgvFoIjwmn74hzdI0jBy58Q59qk_A/edit?usp=sharing

Next steps:

Revisiting the BUO Bookband Pilot

Comments? Concerns?

10

Sahra, Ross

No comments

Manage Patron Services New UI

https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2024/October_2024/November_2024_Feature_Sneak_Preview

• Questions

Non-Alma Billing Practices

• Subgroup for Non-Alma discussion with RS: volunteers are Mark, Sahra, and Sandra

5

Sandra

Next steps:

• Next meeting 1/15/2025

AFN Library Use Only/RLF Barcodes

We've been having difficulty identifying RLF material that is library use only.  I'm wondering if others are having similar experiences and how we can address it.

Sahra/Mark/Ross

8/12- will revisit at end of Fall quarter

Wrap up/Topics for next time

5

All

parking lot:

• Ongoing letter maintenance. Is there value in doing ongoing maintenance of letters; maybe quarterly? Make sure that each campus is sending consistent messaging. Related to the text that we word-smithed in the line above. 3/11 - Will leave on agenda for a few meeting cycles and revisit after decision page for On Hold Shelf letter is finalized.

For future discussion:

• Each campus should share what we use for ID cards: Mag Swipe, Barcode, RFID, Mobile ID, etc. Discuss how we can provide better service to users who borrow materials outside of their home campus. Potential mix of staff training and user education?