Meeting Minutes for 06/05/2018

Discovery Committee Meeting
June 5th, 2018
Minutes

• Team Transition
  • Adam Murray is the new Executive Director for Marmot
    • His start date is July 30th
  • Mark Noble and Jordan Fields have moved on to other career opportunities
  • Digital Archive
    • Responsibilities for the Digital Archives have moved over to Brandon Cole’s User Services team.
    • There is collaboration between User Services and R&D for Digital Archives as well
  • Pascal Brammeier is the lead developer
  • Ashley Sneesby is stepping into the role of product manager for the Sacramento implementation
• Current 2018 Priorities
  • Critical Operations
    • Making sure that everything that is in place is running
  • Committed Implementation needs to be top priority
    • Sacramento implementation
    • Addison Public Library implementation
    • Aurora implementation
    • Aspencat ILS Migration
    • Horizon ROA Patron Integration Implementation
• Discussion of functionality to be developed in the next release
  • Priorities for Next Release
    • Review of the status from the previous and current months.
    • This will be the last time the priorities for next release will be used
  • Priority
  • Sacramento Public Library Implementation
    • Initial implementation in-progress
    • Servers are spun up and R & D is working with data
  • LION Implementation/Sierra APIs
    • Work completed
    • Launched!
  • Hoopla Integration
    • Postponed until after Sacramento
    • Indexing still needs to be finished
• Pika Roadmap - Next Release
• Sierra APIs
  • Mark had completed the API extract
  • Pascal was going to do the patron account integration
  • Will need to delay putting this into production for at least one more release
  • Pascal needs to learn how the entire process works
  • Sierra API is live for LION and running reliably well
  • Marmot test has one problem locking up while running the Sierra API extract
    • Pascal needs more time to look into the issue
  • Sierra patron APIs is postponed as well
• NoveList Select credential update
  • If you get a notice from EBSCO about your NoveList credentials, please forward it to Pascal  
• MUG (October 4th & 5th) Conference Presentation
  • The Council decided that it would be great for all the Marmot committees would present at MUG
  • What do Marmot Member libraries want to see at MUG this year concerning Pika?
  • Would anyone on Discovery Committee have an interest in presenting at MUG?
    • If so, let us know what you’d like to present on and we’ll touch base with you.
    • Not necessarily limited to Marmot members - Discovery Partners have presented at past MUG conferences
    • James from Nashville offered to do a tour of Pika for all the member libraries
      • He would present remotely
    • Anna from Grand County suggested a hands-on workshop for uploading photos for cover art
    • Beth offered to coordinate suggestions
    • Ashley started a MUG Discovery Google Doc to share ideas

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