2023-07-26 Meeting notes

Attendees

  • Jackie Gosselar, Chair

  • Sarah Lindsey, Vice Chair

  • Lakshmi Arunachalam

  • Ramon Barcia

  • Greg Ferguson

  • Jeremy Hobbs

  • Caitlin Nelson

  • John Riemer

  • Zach Silveira

  • Xiaoli Li

  • Lynne Grigsby, 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/1QvbFEsRJikE3_51Z-VO6sPcxBC1JSg16/view?usp=drive_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

4 minutes

Jackie

  • AC (Caitlin)

    • 1st meeting w/incoming chairs, just a welcome

  • LG (Lynne)

    • working on Town Hall

      • announcement of new chairs

      • next meeting in August

      • more information on Alma analytics

 

 

2

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

  • Any questions from the team?

  • Questions from Slack?

14 minutes

Team

  • Data Privacy Forms - add to next agenda

  • Tipasa testing: some delays have come up that may threaten the October deadline for decision about Tipasa.

    • issue has been escalated

    • add Allison Ray to 8/9/23 meeting?

    • Jackie, Sarah, Caitlin, Allison - to meet via Slack to discuss further:

      • gaps in Tipasa testing

      • timelines

    • OCLC is working on the issue (custom development) and in conjunction with ExL (Alma limitations confounding the issue)

    • Question: is there danger of software breaking any time ExL develops Alma software?

      • Mostly the systems are compatible with slight tweaks on either side

      • question for Allison

    • deadline for switchover is currently 2024

      • pressure OCLC for a better VDX replacement product (improve Tipasa) and back off of the current deadline

 

 

3

Topics or questions for the Ex Libris Support Meeting

23 minutes

Jackie/ Team

  • ExL Support Meeting recap

  • CJK re-indexing July 21/22 debrief

    • Updates from UCI, UCSD, UCM

      • overall went well

      • some exceptions

      • inform ExL about discrepancies between experience and expectations

        • ExL support staff need to be better informed in order to be more transparent with us

          • be honest about not knowing the exact outcome of each action/step

        • problematic pattern of behavior, even if it is not purposeful

      • discussion of internal IT workings at ExL

        • suggestion that they have post mortems about issues to be better prepared for future issues

        • need better analysis of similar issues experienced by other consortia

        • time difference between product development (Israel) and support (North America)

        • bring this up with Adriana at Signature Success meeting

    • Document for reference: CJK Doc

    • Timetable document for reference: Preferred CJK Configuration Dates

    • How did baseline tests go (before/during/after reindexing)?

  • July 27/28/29 reindexing plan:

    • UCSF 8pm Thursday 27th (pacific)

    • UCR 8pm Friday 28th (pacific)

    • UCLA As soon as UCR completes (whatever time that is)

      • CUTOFF: 10:30pm Pacific Saturday to NOT start if UCR is still running

  • recap of ExL meeting on Tuesday 7/25/23

    • confirmed good communication on consortia ticket

    • discussed upcoming reindexing plan (above)

    • impact on Sandbox refresh - no firm answer

      • UCB ok waiting until February for their Sandbox refresh

      • on-demand reindexing may be possible

 

 

4

CDLNZ-PT report

  • final feedback/voting will take place during this meeting

13 minutes

Jackie/Team

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-czEdWeYntmOuNplFdeqg8E6-SZit1krHyoNvweoe58/edit

  • Action for OT is to approve the report and discharge the group.

    • ACQ has sent out vote asynchronously

    • ERES has voted to approve the report (7/21)

  • Next steps:

    • CDLNZ-PT will publish their report as PDF on wiki

    • CDL Shared Collections will take up the work

  • Group discussion points:

    • Is it possible to have a Sandbox version of Alma Analytics? (Possibly too complicated to accomplish.) - p.12

    • Place licensing agreements in a single place (The full license documents for Tiers 1-3 should be placed in a shared space. In addition to the idea of situation certain license terms in Alma data elements for front line staff to refer to.) - p.18

    • Separate ledger for CSU? (Need acronym spelled out.) - p.8

  • Group is asking to be discharged.

    • How will we get updates? =

      • Quarterly basis ask for a report

      • Invite CDL Shared Collections representatives to our OT meeting?

Group voted to accept the report (with ask for updates), and to discharge the CDLNZ-PT group

 

5

Project Team Quarterly Reports

  • discuss quarterly reports from April

0 minutes

Jackie/Team

  • Documents to discuss:

 

 

6

Pending projects / materials:

FYI updates on anything we’re waiting for

0 minutes

Team

 

 

7

Review/Update OT Workplan

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

0 minutes

Jackie/ Team

 

 

8

Executive Session

Private discussion as needed

0 minutes

 

 

 

 

9

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

    • incorporate into the reboot

  • Upcoming Reindexing Release (August 2023)

 

 

10

 

Total

54 minutes

 

 

 

 

 

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