2025-01-29 - Agenda and notes

2025-01-29 (Thursday) - Northeast Kansas Library System, Lawrence / online

Zoom link

Zoom passcode 875758

Agenda

1. Announcements, news, brief items, etc.

   • Introductions

   • Additions to the agenda

2. Policy documents

   • 2025 participation agreement

   • Privacy and confidentiality statement

3. Koha upgrade between March 3 and 9 - Koha 24.11

   • Exciting features

     • Force password change for new patrons entered by staff

     • Add a preferred name field to patrons

     • Changes to clais returned

4. Questions about statistics

   • What determines “books,” “audio,” “video,” and “other” in 9.1b, 9.1c, 9.2, 9.4

   • What determines “WiFi hotspot” in 10.5a

   • Adult vs non-adult and print vs non-print in the 11-11.4 series of questions

   • What is the ILL Count based on

   • Why don’t these numbers make any sense

5. Aspen Lida app demo

6. Twillio messaging - next big project

7. Cataloging changes - self-setting indicators

   • See video on YouTube

8. Cataloging multi-part sets

   • Written instructions and vido coming soon

9. Self-check-out / self-check-in documentation updated - demo

   • instructions are at

     • Self-check-out

     • Self-check-in

10. Forms on Aspen Discovery for reporting problems

    • See https://nextkansas.org/staff-help

11. Long term projects

    • Bibliographic frameworks

    • Cake pan cleanup

    • Realia cleanup / updates

    • Find new authority control vendor

    • Notices and slips re-writes/simplifications

12. Next meetings

    • Spring - April - date TBD - Mary Cotton Library, Sabetha / online

    • Early Fall - Late August - Northeast / Online

    • Late Fall - Late October/Early November - South / Online