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SPOT Report, or, what we've been doing all year . Summit Program Meeting, July 8, 2013 . FY 12-13 Members. Heidi Nance, Chair, UW Kate Cabe, Chair-elect, WWU Melissa Treichel, WU Will Parnell, PCC Amy Waite, Clark Danny Smith, PCC Nancy Hoover, Council Liaison, Marylhurst
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SPOT Report, or, what we've been doing all year Summit Program Meeting, July 8, 2013
FY 12-13 Members • Heidi Nance, Chair, UW • Kate Cabe, Chair-elect, WWU • Melissa Treichel, WU • Will Parnell, PCC • Amy Waite, Clark • Danny Smith, PCC • Nancy Hoover, Council Liaison, Marylhurst • Anya Arnold, Alliance Staff
How we decided what to work on We took what we heard from Summiteers ... • More communication! • Work on the website! • We like the Profiles idea! • Keep NRE going! Plus what we heard from Council and the Board ... • Future of Integrated Library Systems (SILS) • Why is Summit use declining?
Shared ILS, part 1 • Weekly phone calls with the SILS Circulation Working Group • Weekly Phone calls with Ex Libris and OCLC • Bi-weekly, later weekly, all-SPOT phone calls • One-on-one calls with Bill Kelm and OCLC to test NCIP --> Alma • Buddy Cohort 1 library NRE --> Alma --> NRE testing phone calls • End-to-end testing with each Cohort 1 library ...and many, many Google docs.
Shared ILS, part 2 Topics • Discovery • Availability • Authentication • Getting to brief results screen • Setting up partners in Alma • Checkout with no patron • Loan periods • How to migrate old temporary records created during the circulation freeze
NRE Upgrades • Typical Process • Get, review documentation • Test, resolve problems • Set date • Communicate • Remove & replace button • Test, verify functionality, sound all-clear • Upgrades this year • November 27 to 6.2.1 (we were on 5.1!) • May 1 to VDX 7.0 • Melissa Treichel's Testing Document
Communication • Individual phone calls • SPOT-rep • October 22nd | Role of a SPOT-rep • Open SPOT calls • November 2 | Why are ILL books coming to Summit? • April 5th | What to talk about at Summit Day? • Blog - turned into website-posting of ... • Anya's Weekly Emails
What we learned • Communication, communication, communication. • Persistence really does pay off. And is necessary. • Every member library is unique. • Conference Call Etiquette 101 • You need to mute your phone • Don't trust your mute button • If your institution has hold music, don't put the conference call on "hold"
RIP, In memory of ... Heidi's Work Phone 2004-2012