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Present: Beverly Gresehover (Chair), Paula Langley, Stephen Miller, Robin Moskal, Sharon Payne, Carol Vaeth
Not Present: Tanner Wray, Jamie Bush
The March minutes were approved.
AV18 status review - Big thanks to Paula , and the Circulation subcommittee, for getting the testing scenarios pulled together in such a short time. Expert testing was discussed and will begin today through April 27. Expert testers will include Sharon, Susan Wheatley, Jamie Edwards, LaTanya West, Everly Brown and Mark de Jong. RSTG members will contact these folks to do the expert testing and find a partner to test with. A testing room will be available at ITD. The testers are asked to keep copious notes and prepare a summary of the testing. Bev will send out a summary of the reports to the AV18 Task Group by 4/30. Problems can be reported to Rx18, which has been setup and is available on the AV18 website. Release notes are on the AV18 wiki. There is a problem with PDQ and we may have to revert to PPH. Stephen will send the testing report to the AV18 team.
General testing will be May 14-June 4. A call will go out from RSTG to Circulation managers asking for general testers. (All Circ staff are welcome)
Finalize due date proposal - Scenario 2 was the consensus, and the due dates will be May 1 and Dec. 1. Morgan, UMCP, Shady Grove and HSHSL will not participate. Bev will send out a draft proposal to RSTG, which in turn will recommend the proposal to CLD with a suggested implementation date of Oct. 1, 2007.
Next steps for ILLiad - There was discussion about involving the 8 independent sites in ILLiad discussions by encouraging everyone to use the ILUG listserv for knowledge sharing and for tips and tricks. A follow-up memo will go out to all USMAI ILL folks reminding them to use the ILUG and asking for feedback, including whether folks can comply with the ILL agreements.
Schedule for ILL and Circ agreements - Decision to revisit the agreements at each January RSTG meeting, forward to the COI and finalized changes at the March RSTG meeting. There will be discussion at the next meeting of what to do when someone doesn’t abide by the agreements.
Offline Circulation - Paula distributed copes of her emailed document – Testing Offline Circulation Aleph v.16. She recommends not using the offline features of Aleph. This document will be linked on the RSTG webpage with a note of that to the COI.
Workplan priorities for RSTG - Bev will email Carlen to see if she got Jamie’s draft of the priorities, with the question of what the next steps are for task groups. There was a resource allocation question from UMBC. RSTG would like specifics. If there are specifics to take forward they will be sent to CLD. If there aren’t then this will be noted in the RSTG annual report.
Scrubbing parameters - This item was deferred to the next meeting that Jamie attends.
Records retention review - We need to comply with the state guidelines. Robin will draft the revisions Phase II purge recommendations found in the Circulation subgroup minutes for Feb.7, 2007 and distribute to RSTG. Stephen will send RSTG a draft of a note to CLD regarding RSTG’s support of Phase II Purge Recommendations, with recommendations of changes.
ILLiad Conference - Carol and Robin reported that the Conference and the presentation went well, and there were lots of questions about the implementation.
RSTG Membership terms - Bev has not heard back from CLD about the membership terms for the Task Group and will contact Barbara Gontrum.
Copyright Clearance Center volume purchase - There is a discount available for copyright payments lowering the cost from $3 to $1 per transaction and there was interest in possibly getting a consortial discount. Mark de Jong will investigate whether other consortia are doing this.
PBS video purchase - UMUC is setting up a video server. Stephen will send out details.
Agenda for May:
Mailbags/canvas bags
Circ agreements changes
Testing
Workplan priorities
Follow up on resource allocation question (RM)
Update for Jamie
Scrubbing plan
CLS annual report
Next RSTG meeting will be May 21, 2007, at the UMBC Tech Center, 9 am – 1 pm.
Minutes submitted by Robin Moskal
4/25/07
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