ULMS Steering Committee : 2018-03-16 Meeting Agenda & Notes

• new government structure is available for comment. Some discussion about adding a Vice-Chair to the committee, changing the name of the committee, adding vice-chairs to the functional committees. carlos wants to share this with COLD in a couple of weeks, so final comments are requested from coord. committee members.

• Reviewed policies for agreement - loan periods, renewals, overdue fines, replacement fees, loan sequence
• some discussion about the replacement fees policy going to COLD, the loan sequence policy to be tweaked to include language on the use cases 

• waiting for the alma and primo enhancements to be available for votes
• Brandon will attempt to put the votes into Google Forms and share with campuses

• Aug 13-14 tentative dates
• Ex Libris trainer will be in attendance
• next steps to reconnect with func committees to narrow topics, find CSU presenters

ACQ/ERM

• Discussing different workflows for single title ebook ordering/activation
• Gathering issues with ordering through GOBI
• Reorganizing the wiki

Resource Sharing

• Joint meeting with fulfillment, formed task forces around topics like lost loan and visiting patron topics
• working on guides for best practices based on questions received
• open forum - received good feedback from attendees. demoed some workflows around general messages and other topics

Discovery

• open forum meeting upcoming. topics include book carousel discussed and planned. 4 CSU campuses working on this together. Lauren will also update on data viz and how that would intersect with primo reporting.
• renorm coming at the end of the month

Fulfillment

• reserves training coming up
• task forces on analytics (common year-end stats needs, benchmark stats), beefing up existing policies to provide more context and assess other needs, resource sharing exploring overlap issues

Resource Management

• Revising policies and best practices in response to requests from campuses and other committees. Looking at compliance, flexibility provided by existing policies.
• Ongoing presentations and trainings on ebook workflows, SUSHI configuration, ACQERM efficiencies, OCLC presentations on Worldshare Collection Manager, and Data Sync Collection in support of Alma publishing to OCLC functionality
• Compiling and distributing  weekly Slack digests to ulms-techservices list.
• Marcus developed procedures for loading MARCIVE records. Committee is drafting document outlining approaches for loading record sets foo free e-collections not represented in Alma or OCLC Knowledgebases

Analytics

• focus on CSU+ stats - are at a place where Mallory is comfortable with the basic stats being produced.
• working on title list matching for EAR ebook proposal
• working with tech services and fulfillment groups on presentations and training
• data viz work ramping up
• thinking about data dashboards - needs and visualization
• assessing impact policy adherance has on analytics - working to identify issues and solve