Barton Advisory Group

To: all-lib@MIT.EDU
Subject: Barton Advisory Group Minutes, June 21, 2001
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:01:47 -0400
From: Walter Powers

 
Present: Michael Finigan, Erja Kajosalo, Georgiana McReynolds,
Christine Moulen, Walter Powers (minutes), Sarah Shreeves
(facilitator)

1. Updates:

   a. Georgiana will be meeting with Pam Nicholas to
      discuss making changes to the screens in the staff Reserves
      module; she will query the project list as to whether Reserve items
      can be excluded from self-renewability

   b. Michael and Irene Mazor conducted some testing scenarios in the
      offline circulation transactions program and encountered
      difficulties, concerning which they will be meeting with
      Christine

   c. Erja and Tracy Gabridge met with the Harvard Web OPAC design
      team to share information and pass along some of MIT's
      experiences; the Reserves aspect of the Web OPAC is not planned to
      be immediately operational on July 9

   d. Christine reported that she is preparing items, holdings,
      orders, subscriptions, and course reserve records for final
      migration; she has been working on the reports (out of Advance)
      that have been requested - most are ready to run, or have been
      run

   e. Sarah detailed various publicity initiatives, and notifications
      about the special library hours during the week of July 2 - she
      noted that that week will be well-suited for staff training;
      the Group discussed the approaching all-staff meeting - Sarah
      will send out a final agenda

2. The Systems Office needs input from the Group concerning
   permissions; Michael and Georgiana will meet about testing
   permissions; Erja will confer with Carl Jones and David Johnson
   about permissions for selectors

3. Sarah noted that the production database should be available for
   testing next week, and needs to know which testers will need the
   new client installed immediately. All staff will get the new client
   during the week of July 2.

Next meeting: Thursday, June 28, 9:30-11:00, Hayden Conference Room