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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- CP deletion and ES selection of withdrawn items - Rx 1983 for CP in test and helped ES to set up criteria for withdrawn items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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