2020.11.05 - Agenda with notes

Leavenworth Public Library
Meeting switched to Zoom only

No recording of this meeting was made

Agenda

  1. Announcements, news, brief items, etc.

  • Introductions

  • Additions to the agenda

  • Announcement

  1. Hoopla searching in Next Search Catalog

  • We will no longer be adding Marc records for Hoopla titles to the catalog

  • New feature allows patrons to search all of Hoopla when searching our catalog

  • Training documents at (this link)

  • Live now on our production server

  • At the meeting Jack suggested we look at Capria and we will follow up on Capria by the January meeting

  1. Placards for Flipster and Hoopla keywords

  • This is also live in our server now - adds “placards” some OPAC searches

  • See the page at this link for a quick example

  • Or search for “Atlantic Monthly,” “Hoopla,” or “Family handyman ebook” on the OPAC

  1. Item type changes

  • Video (Television) – Item type code = NVIDTV

    • Live on our server today

    • Every library now has a circulation rule for Video (Television) that matches their circulation rules for VIDEO

    • Contact nexthelp@nekls.org to change the circulation rule

    • You will need to update the item type on items owned by your library (instructions here) or ask for help at nexthelp@nekls.org

  • Other changes coming

  • At the meeting “Costume,” “Mask,” and “Video (digital player)” item types were also suggested and may be incorported into the timeline at this link

  1. Changes to patron category descriptions

  • 6 patron categories are not automatically billed for items when they have been overdue for more than 45 days

  • The names of those categories have been updated to include “(exempt)” after the name of the Category

  • The timeline of the automatic overdue item deletion process is at this link

  • To get a count of borrowers at your library in all categories plus an indication of which categories staff at your library can use, run report 3361

  • The Library associate (exempt), Student (exempt), and Teacher/Faculty/Administrator (exempt) all have corresponding non-exampt counterparts. If you want your patrons in any or all of those exempt categories updated to their non-exempt counterparts, let us know at nexthelp@nekls.org

  1. 942$h

  • Is now a mandatory field starting today

  • Training documents at

  • As stated at the last meeting, 942$c is next (it’s the difficult one)

  1. 2020 participation agreement (final)

  1. 2020 Privacy and confidentiality statement

  1. 2021 Meetings

  • 2021.01.19 (Tuesday)

    • 10:00 a.m. - noon

    • Zoom only

    • State statistical survey help from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

  • 2021.04.01 (Thursday)

    • 10:00 a.m. - noon

    • Zoom only

  • 2021.09.02 (Thursday)

    • 10:00 a.m. - noon

    • Nekls office (in person and on Zoom)

  • 2021.11.09 (Tuesday)

    • 10:00 a.m. - noon

    • Leavenworth Public Library (in person and on Zoom)

  1. Next meeting

    • January 19, 2021

    • Zoom only

    • Zoom link