Sage Council-November 20 2018

Sage Council Minutes

November 20, 2018

Attendees: Ryan McGinnis (chair), Audrey Durfey, Dea Nowell, Perry Stokes, Mark Rose, Ann Zuelke, Jon Georg, Cheryl Hancock, Marsha Richmond, Rich Wandschneider

Approval of July and September minutes – will be sent by email after the meeting due to lack of a quorum.

Vote on academic seat replacement by Marsha Richmond at Klamath Falls Community College Library will also need to be sent out to academic libraries.

The official vote on Vice-chair position will need to take place by email as well – Mark Rose has been nominated.

Discussion took place on meeting attendance. There are 13 people on the council. How can we get more people to attend? The holiday may be impacting attendance this time. An agenda with action items may increase participation as well. Ryan will try to get the agenda out earlier.

Committee Reports

Cataloging Committee – There is a new chair, John Brockman. There was a report given on what the mentors are doing. Had a training on how to catalog book with CD records that was well attended.

Budget Committee– Beth asked if this committee should meet soon since we try to have a draft in January. Perry agreed and indicated that we would have to make adjustments since two of our members moved down a category. Perry will call a meeting.

New Business

Rich asked about cataloging there and had some questions. Beth will work with them. Rich gave an update on programming at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture. He asked about applying for an LSTA grant. Perry said that would be great for a project but not for long-term help on personnel. Rich also relayed research opportunities available through their specialized collection.

Evergreen 3.1 – There are some customizations that need to be re-established.

Ann mentioned that the desktop staff client is slower. The web client is supposed to be faster but we have had server issues.

Beth’s expectation is that as staff are comfortable we will move over to the web client but that it may take a while. There will be some set up necessary for some sites with receipt printing. There was a question about quick reports – Beth will look into it. Beth will also be look at regular reports to better organize and make sure that they are working as expected.

Perry reported that catalogers mentioned that it was frustrating that they needed to tab to get to the next field rather than clicking.

Beth will start doing some GotoMeeting sessions on the web client.

Marsha asked if it is ok to start cataloging on the web client. Beth indicated that was fine but there are some differences. The combination volume/item editor is now the default in the web client.

Beth encouraged staff to report issues.

Perry asked if Beth had posted network diagram online. Also, if we had age information on servers.

Meeting adjourned at 10:29 Pacific Time.