2025-02-07 Meeting Notes

Announcements

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All chairs: round robin report. Team discussion about balancing the hat worn when representing campus while also chairing subgroups.

OT: Gem talked about NZ consortia dashboard. Shouldn’t be anything DISC cares about, but can give brief tour of features if anyone is interested.

Next ExL support meeting: Feb 21, 2025. Submit any languishing tickets to Gem by the 17th or 18th.

Slack/General Questions

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• Gem requested specific examples of FRBR problems to share with Ex Libris. One issue highlighted was that the "preferred record" displayed in FRBR groups often isn't the record with local holdings, confusing users. Examples were shared where records held by other institutions or different language translations were prioritized over local holdings. The vendor suggested adjusting the "Criteria for the FRBR preferred record" to prioritize local print holdings. Testing confirmed this works for print, but the ideal scenario is to prioritize local electronic holdings. Concerns were also raised about the accuracy of FRBR groupings, the inclusion of different formats and translations within the same group, and the overall usability of FRBR. The underlying issue appears to be incomplete and inaccurate FRBR keys, which would require significant effort to fix. The group questioned whether the effort to maintain FRBR is worthwhile, given the limitations. A document with further examples was shared.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nqD-UoJn7LgKcWPuL4MWq6XXYj-kRccnhvl2jJGE9oI/edit?usp=sharing 

• UCB/UCR Discussion regarding hyperlinking the "Source" field in Primo. Current behavior links all "Source" values, including "Library Catalog" which leads to a zero-results page. Desired behavior is to only hyperlink "Source" values for digital collections imported via the Discovery Import Profile. Proposed solutions include using a local display field for the MARC field containing the collection name (likely 982) and then creating hyperlinks via normalization rules or custom code.

• Discussion regarding the apparent disappearance of a reference to WorldCat API v2 in the Primo VE February 2025 release notes. While the API version is documented on the OCLC developer site and is of interest for OCLC number searching, its mention was initially present but later absent from the release notes. A discrepancy was found between the "All" month view of the release notes and the February-specific view. Issue raised regarding the completeness and accuracy of the release notes, and a support ticket will be submitted.

• UCR noticed that new codes have been added to the Discovery Labels that start with nde. Such as nde.request.title (and no documentation!)

• Discussion to revisit modifying the “request through Interlibrary Loan” language.

E-Resource Decision Page:

Scoping of IP Ranges

E-Res is asking us for feedback

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UCB has been doing this since Go-Live and it’s largely positive. It’s not ultra-well documented. It doesn’t seem to interact with the NZ. The only difficulty is keeping up with the IP ranges.

It would be nice to have documentation on the nuts and bolts of how to actually configure this.

Discovery Subteam Updates

Where are groups at? Do we need to start setting deadlines?

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Access Models group: Has questions out to Ex Libris waiting for a response.

Research Assistant: We haven’t made progress since our first draft. There’s been a new release that needs to be tested because the release should have fixed some of our biggest concerns.

Database search: The team has overlap with Research Assistant and will get to work when that one has been sorted out.

Shared Configuration Group: No updates.

We don’t need to make a decision about setting deadlines. We’ll revisit that at the next meeting, especially when waiting on Ex Libris responses.

Research Assistant may be able to get something done by early March.

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