OWLSweb :: AAC Meeting Agenda

Updated: September 12, 2008

AAC Meeting Agenda

Date: September 19th, 2008
Coffee and Conversation: 9:15 a.m.
Meeting: 9:30 a.m.
Location: Appleton Public Library meeting room

Lunch arrangements: Lunch (pizza) will be arranged at approx. $6 per person. If staff from your library will be attending, please RSVP for lunch by sending an email to Laura by Tuesday, September 16th, and include the number of attendees from your library.

Please note: The meeting will start promptly at 9:30.

Agenda

1. Call to Order

2. Minutes of the March 14th, 2008 Meeting

3. AAC ground rules

4. Announcements

5. Information - to be presented by OWLS and OWLSnet member library staff

Committee and users group updates
- Patron Registration committee update
- Tech talks/Circ Works update
- InfoSoup PR Committee update
Circulation update
- OWLSnet help list; if you find yourself typing "I'm not sure you're the right person..."
- Check for ____ discs labels/items with messages
- Short loan stickers - if you use the sticker, take off the note!
- Clearing the holdshelf update
- Revised payment for lost items procedure
- Sending notices to multiple email addresses
- Notice preference "none" will email, not print (if email address available)
InfoSoup development update
- Web stats for InfoSoup
- Scoping changes
- Exportable reading history
- Syndetics alternative?
Network update
Upgrade to release 2007
- Circ changes
  - checking in item with hold on it; can get option to not check in
  - Re-set print box (when you uncheck, it keeps the setting until you re-check it)
- What are we working on?
Proposed 2009 AAC schedule :
- January 16th
- March 20th
- May 15th
- July 24th
- September 18th
- November 20th

6. Decision - consensus decision or vote

SAM implementation

7. Discussion - discussion of issues that may be up for decision at future meetings

Brown County - what is the status of our talks with Brown County regarding the library joining OWLSnet? What would the ramifications be? What do you think about this?
Video games - More libraries are interested in purchasing video games for checkout. Questions to be discussed include: Can these be made local checkout only? Can the checkout period be changed to 1 week?
Lost and Paid over 1 year
Establishing a policy committee
Implementation of Millennium transit slips
Discussion of possible enhancements:
- Library Thing
- Ecommerce
- Online patron registration
- Encore
Recommendation that the OWLSnet manual move to an online format

8. Other Business

9. Adjournment

OWLSnet

New or Improved

Info to Go

AAC Meeting Agenda

Agenda