ULMS Discovery : 2023-08-24 Discovery Committee Meeting

Created by Keven Jeffery, last modified on Sep 22, 2023

Recording

Participants

  • Keven Jeffery, San Diego

  • Julie Shen, Pomona

  • Hannah Lee, Dominguez Hills

  • Kristi Chavez, Bakersfield

  • Ken Herold, Los Angeles

  • Chris Novak, San Francisco

  • David Walker, Chancellor’s Office

Discussion Topics

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Presenter

Notes

Vice-Chair Selection

Keven Jeffery (Unlicensed)

Ken Herold (CSU LA) has volunteered to be vice-chair

Discovery Testing Report

Hannah Lee (Unlicensed)

Sub Committee formed to respond to questions about discovery updates. When Ex Libris releases features the group tests the feature and makes a recommendation to the CSU as to whether the feature should be adopted. Currently in the 5th round of testing.

Set Committee Priorities for the Year

Keven Jeffery (Unlicensed)

This semester’s priorities

  • Invite a member of Resource Management to join us as a liaison

  • Can we create a task force with ERM, ILL, to cataloging the issues with discovery (survey? slack?)

    • Create an overview of the data issues (duplicates, etc)

    • Creating survey questions for slack or other avenues of feedback

  • Mobile Experience - describe the problems for reporting (full write-up with screen captures)

    • Julie/Chris

Ideas from Last Year’s Committee

  • Collaborating with other committees on issues

    • Secondary resources

    • DEI and accessibility

    • Having a discovery person on tech services committees

  • Improving Facets

    • Library of Congress Facet (Hannah)

  • Improving Authority Records & Linked Data

    • There is authority control on the alma side

    • Our preference for the OCLC record is an organizational one

  • Controlling Duplicate Records

    • FRBR & Dedupe

  • Reviewing Holdings Display (slow loading, caching)

  • Improving Mobile Experience

  • Improving Chat & Report a Problem

    • LibAnswers/LibChat Chatbot - could it direct patrons down one path or the other?

  • Google Analytics

  • AngularJS migration to Angular (no date given)

  • Discovery

    • How do we search? How can we search?

    • Can we use alternate result displays (Bento Results)?

  • GitHub

    • Can it be used for version control and sharing of templates?

  • Other Ideas?

How do we do our work?

Keven Jeffery (Unlicensed)

Work offline between meetings. Share through Google Drive or the Wiki

Action Items

Action Items

  • Reach out to Resource Management regarding a liaison

  • Reach out to Resource Sharing and ERM regarding communication and data issues - Keven

  • Create a document to collect survey/Interview questions regarding data issues - Keven

    • Look at Trello board

  • Find out what mobile problems have already been reported - Keven