2022-11-16 Meeting notes

Attendees

  • Thomas Bustos, Chair

  • Jackie Gosselar, Vice Chair

  • Lakshmi Arunachalam

  • Ramon Barcia

  • Greg Ferguson (partially attended)

  • Jeremy Hobbs

  • Sarah Lindsey

  • Caitlin Nelson (out)

  • John Riemer

  • Zach Silveira (out)

  • Neil Weingarten

  • Stephen Gurnick (guest)

  • Todd Grappone, Past SILS Leadership Group Chair

  • Anna Arrieta, Support Member

Meeting Recording

Meeting Recording

The meeting recording is available for download in the OT Shared Google Folder, which you can access using this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14BRNRt8AeiaHRwAhskdL_2Zohpjm42hU/view?usp=share_link

 

Item

Desired Outcome

Time

Who

Notes

Decisions

Actions

Item

Desired Outcome

Time

Who

Notes

Decisions

Actions

1

Updates - from All-Chairs, Leadership Group, etc.

  • Provide updates from other SILS meetings

6 minutes

Tom

  • Alma Annual Analytics group kicked off last week

  • Note from TG: The assessment of UCLAS mentioned by Tom is being reviewed by SILSLG and DOC

  • AC

    • CJK issue discussed (KO instead of HK used)

    • reindexing will be delayed - new date tbd

 

 

2

Q & A Session - Including Questions on Slack since last meeting

  • Any questions from the team?

  • Questions from Slack?

5 minutes

Team

  • JG ticket number #06554102

    • details posted in Slack

    • including the 880 field purportedly affects search speed, according to ExL

    • SILS OT members asked to test and see if they are experiencing the same issues

  • Update on Lived Name question from Slack

    • If the lived name (from a campus source) is present, we are in compliance.

    • Needs to be a business case for having both the lived name and legal name present in Alma.

 

 

3

Topics or questions for the Ex Libris Support Meeting

13 minutes

Tom / Team

  • Next meeting is 11/21/22

  • Gather ticket numbers to pass on

    • Send ticket numbers/information to Tom/Jackie/Caitlin

    • Include Project Flash tickets that have been closed and/or needed to be reopened.

    • Some reports that extra prodding/follow up are necessary with tickets.

  • Difficulty to obtain information outside of tickets (i.e. informational, functionality, possibilities, etc.)

  • Suggestion during “Additional Topics” for consortium wide ticket tracking.

 

 

4

RLF Task Force

  • Review/discuss documents distributed by Caitlin

0 minutes

Team

  • table for next meeting

 

 

5

SILS member onboarding/offboarding

5 minutes

Team

  • Currently in progress

    • Please add comments to the Google Doc.

  • Upon completion send to LG for possible wider adoption

    • Tom will share at upcoming meeting.

 

 

6

Communication with non-cohort personnel

7 minutes

Team

  • Updates from Jackie and Sarah

    • document shared in Slack, reviewed by team during meeting

    • Suggestions:

      • clarification - please only join channels to which you’ve been invited.

      • clarification - create a request to be added to a channel, as opposed to joining on their own

      • add language about obtaining consent from channel members before sharing information posted in the channels

 

@Tom Bustos to share the SILS Slack Best Practices document with LG
7

OT topics for Town Hall

  • Discuss possible topics to share at the next Town Hall to be scheduled in January.

7 minutes

Tom / Team

 

 

8

Additional Topics

 

10 minutes

 

  • Suggestion to track time between ExL ticket creation and ticket completion. Tracking would be consortium wide.

  • Financial systems outside of SILS

    • integration with ExL

    • needs, options, support, etc.

    • learn about work already done by other campuses to avoid redundancy

    • UCSD Oracle billing integration is in progress, issues have arisen and tickets have been created

      • address with LG

  • Broader discussion of other types of system integrations

    • use this forum for further discussions like this

 

@Tom Bustos and @Todd Grappone will address Oracle financial system integration with LG
9

Review/Update OT Workplan

  • Follow-up discussion on review/update to the OT Workplan from OT-SC meeting

0 minutes

Tom / Team

  • table for next meeting

 

 

10

Executive Session

Private discussion as needed

0 minutes

 

 

 

 

11

Parking Lot

Capture important topics for future discussion

0 minutes

 

  • Taking the Temperature Survey

    • Discuss Responses from Survey, particularly the What worries you? and What are you most excited about? sections

  • SILS Ops Center would like to have a “Communication Tools Policies” page where we document the current best practices and policies for Slack, Confluence, Google Docs, email etc. Create draft and discuss in SILS OT.

 

 

12

 

Total

53 mins

 

 

 

 

 

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