2017-06-08 Resource Access Meeting Notes

Date

08 Jun 2017

Attendees

• Andrea Loigman

• Cheryl Malmborg

• Joanne Leary
• Deb Lamb
• Mark Canney
• Rameka Barnes
• Sharon Wiles-Young
• Cate Boerema (Deactivated)
• Michael Winkler
• David Bottorff
• Anne L. Highsmith
• Hkaplanian
• Maria Grzeschniok

Goals

• Determine the meeting schedule for the rest of this month
• Delineate needs for system functions related to locations and the location hierarchy

Discussion items

Notes

Housekeeping:  No meetings on 6/22 & 26 (ALA) but will meet while Andrea is on vacation (enjoy!) with Cate as our convener.

Location discussion with Harry, Vince and Cate

• Number of levels:
  • 5, not all need to be configured
  • VZG libraries currently use 5
  • Is having 5 levels a workaround from past systems or needed? 
  • Would it be better to have 5 right now instead of trying to add one later
    
    
• Service Desks / Processing locations
  • not part of the hierarchy but connected to it
  • system needs to understand when an item is 'home' to enable next steps
  • can we have a many to many relationship between desks and locations
    • what are the advantages/disadvantages?
  • Should we differentiate between service Desks & processing locations? Will that help the workflow engine?

• Level Descriptions:
  • each institution will want to define and name their own levels
  • so name conventions could be Level A,B,C or Level 1,2,3

• Consortia needs: 
  • Has not yet been discussed in Consortia SIG
  • many libraries are in more than one consortia
  • how can this be handled?
  • Is there a level above consortia?
  • Sits apart from institution

• Collections:
  • Is collections more of a concept?
  • Location as a purpose? 
  • Workflow as context
  • What would happen if “collection” were not part of location hierarch?
  • What would that do to loan rules?
  • Adding another factor in loan rules (5 instead of 4) would make it more difficult

Seems reasonable to have a level between library and shelving but what would that be?

• Must be able to retain home location when adding a temp location
• Need to be prepared for the future:
  
  • Floating collections
  • Collective collections
  • ????

Will pick up discussion on Monday’s meeting

Recording - available through 6/22/2017

https://zoom.us/recording/play/A5W90DUgRYZ5n5B4A68gF73drSrOL8vdOkTmD2MsuphXGcNFMfJNA4F8IFvanJED