Barton Advisory Group minutes 4/12/06

  Present: Christine Moulen (chair), Nina Davis-Millis, Denise OMalley, Lisa Harrington , Darcy Duke, Beth Siers , Charlene Follett, Elke Piontek-Ma (minutes)


1. Disaster Plan

Nina joined the group to discuss the Disaster Plan. Nina reviewed the purpose and goal of the plan. Christines role is to get the system back up and Nina will coordinate the recovery efforts and downtime communication and procedures. She will work with BAG members whose role is to coordinate the downtime procedures in their respective functional areas and then contribute to the testing before the system goes back up.

After the recent experience, Nina will actually call BAG members when its time to test e-mail has proven not to be fast enough. BAG members should be near their phones.

If there are additional documents to be included in the disaster plan, send to Christine to be included in the Disaster plan CD-ROM.


2. Upgrade to v.18

- ExLibris North America support staff recently got training to support v.18 upgrades

- There are two other North American customers to do their v.18 upgrades before ours

- At the time of the meeting we didnt have any news when we could do the v.18 upgrade, but Christine has since heard from ExLibris that we can go ahead with our plans.

  - There are some new OPAC features, f.ex. RSS feeds and a few new Your Account features all need testing

- Denise volunteered to look through some of the ILL documentation and to contact Doc Services


3. Eluna meeting

- Christine, Nina, Beth, Darcy, Rich and Selina are going to the Eluna meeting.

- Beth and Rich are attending a seminar directly following the Eluna meeting.

4. Enhancement requests

- most of the deadlines have past already

- Beth, Darcy, Denise, Christine all sent in requests

- Lisa and Elke are planning to send one (and have done so)



5. Service pack issues:

- there are some major changes: two major bib loader changes, changes to the year-end process, EDI changes, patron loader changes, YBP loader change and SIP2 server change (whats behind the self-check machines)

- the service pack is installed and ready to be tested

- we are not rushing to get the service pack installed on the production server, but it should be done before we get involved in the v.18 upgrade

- Christine will work with some BAG members on testing


6. Other

- Darcy and Rich are going to an OPAC training session in Chicago near the end of May

- The BAG wiki is working, but it's still completely empty

- Table of Contents will not run while Beth is on vacation

- Darcy will send out a message to all-lib about some of the fixes in the OPAC that Austin has accomplished already.

Next meeting : March 26 , 1:30, TBA
Minutes:   Wenger