2019-1-17 Resource Access Meeting Notes

5min

Housekeeping

@Andrea Loigman

• Notetaker - @Cheryl Malmborg

• Listserv reminder - https://ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org/

• Meeting on Monday 1/21? (MLK Day in US) - no meeting on Jan. 21

20min

Disabling and deleting service points

@Cate Boerema (Deactivated)

What if a SP is created by accident or is no longer in use? Deleting SPs is challenging because of the various dependencies.

Should we inactivate instead? What's the expected behavior in both cases for locations, requests and loans that use the SP?

15min

Call numbers on staff slips

@Darcy Branchini

What parts of the call number should be displayed on the staff slip? And if it just should be concatenated? 

10min

Partials for patron notices.

@Darcy Branchini

Partials are snippets of information, such as a header, footer, signature and/or location or contact information, that would then become tokens for use in the templates.

Which partials are needed?

e.g. loans, fees/fines

Name

e.g. Q4 2018, Q1 2019

Clearly stated decision

• Because...

• Because...

e.g. mock-up, JIRA issue

Service Points

@Cate Boerema (Deactivated)

Unknown

• Should develop a feature to inactivate service points similar to the inactivate locations feature

• Should have the ability to generate reports showing all the places this service point is used. Data warehouse reports would be okay for this purpose but we need to be sure there is good documentation outlining all the places where service points can be used (e.g. locations, users, requests etc)

• Service points have so many associations with valuable data you definitely don't want to delete unless they haven't been used anywhere

• The location inactivation is a model that works well

• Data warehouse reports will give you a sense of all the cleanup you want to do

• Deprecating a service point happens infrequently enough that you don't need a fancy in-app report with the ability to take action

• But we definitely need documentation on where SPs are used so ppl know which kinds of data warehouse reports to generate

• It was also noted that, when we integrate the locations into the circ rules, we need to define what should happen when you check out or renew something that has an inactive location