Barton Advisory Group
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Subject: Minutes - Barton Advisory Group - September 28, 2005
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Barton Advisory Group, September 28, 2005
Present: Davis-Millis (guest), Follett, Gabridge (for Duke), Harrington, McReynolds (minutes), Moulen (chair), Piontek-Ma, Siers, Wenger
* MIT Libraries will host 9 library staff from Kosovo. Davis-Millis passed out the schedule for Nov. 1 and Nov. 8. The Kosovo guests will meet with BAG on the morning of Nov. 8. Any BAG member who cant attend should find a substitute. Members will prepare a 10 minute guided tour of their functional area. We will allow time for questions and a discussion of challenges and future developments. Davis-Millis will make arrangements for a room and contact the directors office concerning refreshments; Cubespace conference room is a possibility. Davis-Millis will know more about the guestsinterests after meeting with them on Nov. 1.
* Moulen will send BAG the shared login to track, and browse support incidents on ExLibrissupport web site.
* McReynolds reported that the reserve renewal problem still exists; Moulen will investigate. * Follett and Harrington are testing invoicing on the service pack. The next service pack contains 2 fixes that we want EDI pricing for orders and Preference setting in Web Barton.
* McReynolds reported the problem some units had retrieving patron records because of barcode loading. She will send Moulen examples. Moulen believes the problem should be solved if she deletes barcodes that are not attached to Aleph ID numbers.
* Moulens Proposal to upgrade to version 18was reviewed. Davis-Millis suggested that a statement be added to indicate that we reserve the right to not migrate to every even numbered version. She also added that an outline is needed in the proposal to explain what steps will be taken in the six months leading up to the migration. Moulen will edit the document and send to the group; comments will be passed along by email in order to have the proposal ready for the next meeting of DLG/TSC.
* The group did a voluntary committee review in keeping with the exercise that is required of all public service committees/groups. Moulen will write up the results of the discussion at the meeting and from the emails received from members who were not present.
* Siers discussed the ongoing problems with mis-wanded barcodes. She indicated that a way needed to be found to protect the record she has created for mis-wanded barcodes as real barcodes have found their way into the record. Follett reported some keyboards are incompatible with wands and/or scanners.
Next meeting: October 12 , 2005 1:30pm, Cubespace E25-131
Minutes: Moulen