USMAI Webpages:

• USMAI page header and footer links continue to be updated.
• USMAI Workplan updated on current projects.

InterLibrary Loan:

• CP Test environment setup in preparation for upgrade.
• Hongyan Sun attended ILLiad training with CP ILL staff.

Authorities in Aleph:

• Preliminary work done for setting up authorities in V18 TEST began.

Research Port and Find It:

• Work on MetaLib 4 screen design continued, in collaboration with UITG and the screen subgroup. Investigated functionality options.
• MetaLib 4 Upgrade Express process completed with resource and user data from the production server.
• Conducted usability testing on screen designs. This first round included four students and both undergraduates and graduate students.
• Cleaned out Research Port usage statistics older than FY07 on recommendation of Electronic Collections Task Group.

Electronic Resource Management (Verde):

• Several staff members and members of the ERM Task Group attended a follow-up webinar on Verde fixes and enhancements.
• Started setting up site for access to consortial licenses.

RX:

• Efforts increase to close long outstanding reports.
• totals for ILS team - 86 reports submitted, 99 reports closed
• CP deletion and ES selection of withdrawn items - Rx 1983 for CP in test and helped ES to set up criteria for withdrawn items

Aleph:

• Duplicate ISSNs and bibs - two reports were modified, rerun, posted to the Cataloging web site
• Evans bid loader developed and tested in TEST. CPC revewing the loaded records
• Aleph reporting tool doc-delete modified to use report-items output as input
• New titles accession date problem identified and investigated
• Version 18 cleanup - Services menu available via Aleph clients updated.
• Testing began on HSL delinquency notices (cash-06)
• Hold available notices for SM and BC in production, in TEST for SU.
• Courtesy notices for ML and SM in production.
• Final setup of common due dates in TEST completed.
• Aleph year end closeout process completed for the last campus, CS.
• Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) loader development, Yalan worked with ML and CPC on specifications and process procedures

Authentication:

• UMUC authentication fixed to work properly in version 18.

EDI Claims:

• problem indentified, extra characters added to file name during data transfer via p_edi_11; SM setup on hold

Personnel:

• Heidi Hanson named chair of new systems librarian search committee.
• Janet Evander named chair of the search committee for the manager of the Digital Technology and Interface Services (DTIS) team.
• Yalan provided reports training for Hongyan and Heidi.
• Training of Hongyan Sun continued in ILLiad and ad hoc report writing.

Meetings:

• ERIC meeting: continued planning for E-book Forum for the USMAI to be held on October 9. Heidi Hanson will facilitate.
• Task Group Chairs meeting held at CP. Attended by Jamie and Carlen.
• Planning for Campus Contacts on 10/8 meeting continued.
• Follow up Verde training meeting attended by Yalan, Jamie, Laura W. and Carlen.
• Systems librarians and members of DTIS met to examine and document team tasks and duties for reorg work.
• Dave Kennedy partcipated in the DLF ILS Discovery Interfaces Group meeting in Philadelphia. Preparing for presentation at November DLF Fall Forum.

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