Present: Jim Farmer, Craig McWhirter, Sarah Vaughn, Geoff Douglas, Ev. Jamerino, Brice Austin, Sandee Cirian, Clark Driese, Nancy Sensel, George Machovec. Via phone conferencing: Chris Martinez, Shelley Runyan, Jan Tankersley.
1. Jim and George welcomed group to the new year and noted that, today, we have some substitutions and some new committee appointees. Introductions were made.
2. George led the group in voting for the 2002 Chairperson. Jim Farmer will again chair the group.
3. Jim asked if someone would volunteer to be the Recorder for the coming year. Jim has recorded since the old days of the Prospector Taskforce. Ev agreed to record for awhile and then we may rotate. Thanks Ev!
4. Group skipped discussion of the minutes, but returned to them later. Basically no changes except that “September” didn’t get changed to “December” in the heading. Note this on your copy.
5. News. George filled us in on the Endeavor progress. In March there will be some MARC testing. April is the target for sending more imbedded information (e.g. circ. transactions). Test loads can begin after this. Target for roll-out may not be until Fall Semester sometime. George quoted from the February DATALINK that we have experienced an 80% growth (even subtracting the addition of DPL and Regis, we still have a large increase in volume.) 60% of the records in the system are unique to one library (thus no balancing on those items since there is only one copy). OCLC purchases NetLibrary—See DATALINK. Nancy asked if any other libraries are expressing interest. There have been some interest from sites and via the Director’s group. Nothing firm yet. Costs and courier access may be issues with some. Possible future topic: Discuss regional routing within Prospector.
6. Grouped formally the @-sign status best practice. Discussion: media: cost of extra materials was a primary concern when we discussed extra protection of these items. CSU has experienced broken CD’s and jewel boxes. More discussion on this over time. Message INN-Reach listserv (George?). Timesaver BP’s include removing all paperwork bookmarks, and bands before sending back to home library. BP may officially formalize RETURNS and LOANS separation with a second vote next meeting. Reminder that no in-transit slips are printed for returns (unless you have an in-house, local practice only use for them). When delivering books have the paging slip always face up and be just inside the front cover of the book regardless of where the barcode is. Group wants to recommend to CCLS to add Prospector as a location on their transit cards. Franca, via Sandee, will check on this one. Lastly, delete BP7 because it refers to pre-release 2000 functionality.
7. Group discussed whether to turn on Recalls or not for Reserve. CU presented arguments for using the functionality. Other members wanted to keep the system in a holds-only mode. [More on the holds issue next meeting]. Those in favor of leaving Recall functionality turned off was near-unanimous.
8. George will combine enhancement list (including those discussed today) and submit with the Cat/Ref group’s list by the March 15 due date.
9. Next meeting dates: March 20, April 17, May 15
Meeting adjourned.