2017-04-07 RM Meeting notes

2017-04-07 RM Meeting notes

  • Date

Apr 7, 2017

Attendees

  • @Kristin Martin

  • @Lynn Bailey

  • Ann Crowley

  • @Eric Hartnett

  • @Charlotte Whitt

  • @Martina Tumulla

  • @Peter Murray

  • @Kristen Wilson

  • @Marc Johnson

  • Scott Vieira

  • @Filip Jakobsen

  • @Kathryn Harnish

  • Ann Campbell

  • @Maria Grzeschniok

  • John Ballestro

 

Discussion items

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Minute Taker

@Martina Tumulla

 

FOLIOForum: Resource Management in FOLIO: A First Look

@Kristin Martin and @Kristen Wilson

Reminder this is next week on Wednesday

Kristen and Kristin are presenting next Wednesday, showing Filip's work, prototype and slides from ER&L in a longer format.

ER&L FOLIO Open House Debrief

All who attended ER&L

RM SIG Open House: 2 April 2017

8 SIG members, 25 non-SIG attendees

  • Successful meeting at ER&L, appreciated Filip's work, good feedback

  • Kristin gave a quick intro to FOLIO and RM SIG

  • Showed Filip’s prototype and parts of the videos, especially for workflows and task lists

  • Workflow features were receives well at ER&L, Workflows within the system and Checklist/reminders for workflows outside of the system

  • Workflow to generate reports to evaluate

  • Suggestion workflow to be imported from other institutions, being able to identify the best workflows or tagging them,  

  • Questions

    • Circulation prototype – is it further along? How integrated with OCLC is it? (KEM comments: not clear how circ relates to OCLC?)

      • We know we need to work effectively with all the other systems that are important to libraries.

      • Linking out to OCLC will obviously be important

  • Want electronic resources to be automatically activated in KB for access

  • Infrastructure behind the to-do lists: will it gather metadata and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) so that performance can be tracked? Workflow from a management perspective - measuring the tasks based on the information on workflows and chance of evaluating and adjusting the workflows. Help manager tweak the workflow to make the time expectations more realistic; automatically send reminders if KPIs are missed; allow manager to reassign tasks.

    • Have workflows at managerial overview level and at an individual level

    • Benchmarking

  • Getting reports and stats without an SQL person, in very small shops

    • Reporting SIG: not much work to date; some folks used to doing own reports, but some need easy-to-run reports; in the roadmap

    • Have a reports store where community members can draw on reports that others have created

  • Can workflow have tasks that move out of the system – like having a step that says “go to EZ Proxy and set this up”

    • Workflows: some things will be steps in the system that it does; some will be checklists, e.g. Send license to Legal

  • One library uses SharePoint Task Manager: EBSCO renewals; would like to be able to set future dates for reviewing each account in FOLIO, without having to go into SharePoint

  • Be able to search lots of workflows in the workflow store without having to scroll through every individual one

    • Part of an implementation may be to figure out which default workflows to start with

    • A lot will be controlled by the permissions related to individual staff members

  • “Really pretty and something that I would want to start working on immediately”

  • Love the idea of e-mails and CRM integrated into a library system

    • How do you deal with the privacy issues around trouble tickets

    • What if all e-mail ends up in the system, and you’re just trying to find the one important one

    • Be able to use a ticketing system, perhaps with a triage unit who would assess the tickets and route properly for resolution

General ER&L Comments

  • Recognition in FOLIO is high

  • People are ready to move beyond the general to see specific and want to see feature development as opposed to only abstract ideas

  • Some concern about sustainability of project

Filip posted the video UX Sketches: Resource Management concepts iteration on discuss. More to come soon.

Review of Invoicing Activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v0FCu9y8oPa0SaogL6j8HdbQq7eSX8E48Vx-UVSfijw/edit

All

The invoicing activities document will be discussed by invoice experts:

Anne Campbell, EBSCO
Ann-Marie Breaux, EBSCO
Scott Perry, Chicago
Martin Tumulla, hbz
Kathryn Harnish, Leap Forward Consulting
Kristen Wilson, NCSU
[Individuals from TAMU and Duke]

Maybe on Friday 21st or on a separate meeting.

Next week: hold meeting?

All

No Meeting on Friday 14th due to Good Friday.

Other?

 

 

Action items