2022.08.30 - Agenda and notes

2022.08.30 - (Tuesday) 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - NEKLS office / online
Zoom link
Zoom passcode 7858384090
No recording of this meeting will be made

1. Announcements, news, brief items, etc.

• Introductions
• Additions to the agenda

2. Post upgrade issues

• Refund lost fee on return - 1 report that this function is broken
• Phantom record - Hawaii

3. KohaCon22 in Lawrence, KS

• This is an international conference (see https://koha-us.org/events/conferences/kohacon22/)
• It’s free - register at https://forms.gle/KBRTYZYGBx35iMMf7
• Volunteers needed throughout the week
  • Attendees may need rides from KCI to Lawrence and back again
    • Let us know at nexthelp@nekls.org if you would be willing to give someone a ride
  • Robin is leading a group to a Royals game on Wednesday, September 21
    • Let us know at nexthelp@nekls.org if you’d be willing to help take people to the ball game

4. 2023 participation agreement draft (very few changes)

• 2023 Draft agreement

5. 2023 Privacy and confidentiality statement draft

• 2023 Draft privacy and confidentiality statement

6. Authority Control coming by the end of the year

• Marcive
• There may be a cataloging freeze for a few days when we get the process started

7. New Feature - Digital Library Card - Coming October 3

• Barcode scanner update - If you don’t have them, they will be delivered soon

8. Next Steps progress

• See https://nekls.mclms.net/en/package/10290/view
• See https://northeast-kansas-library-system.github.io/nextsteps/
• Suggest a topic at nexthelp@nekls.org

9. Searching strategies (Lori - Ottawa)

• We have upgraded our search engine from Zebra to ElasticSearch
• ElasticSearch has features Zebra did not

10. Claims returned questions (Lori - Ottawa)
11. Email/text message issues (Several people)
12. Password reset walk-through

• Director accounts
• Any staff account with an e-mail address

13. Follow-up on Inter-Koha ILL (NEKLS/SEKLS/CKLS sharing outside of ShareIt)
14. Locations needed for 2023 meetings

• Meeting in January at NEKLS (January 24 (Tu) or 26 (TH))
• Meeting in April -TBA- (April 18, 20, 25 or 27 are possible dates)
• Meeting in August -TBA- (August 22, 24, 29 or 31 are possible dates)
• Meeting in November -TBA- (November 7, 9, 14, or 16 are possible dates)

15. Next meetings in 2022

• November 17 (Thursday 10:00 a.m.) - Leavenworth Public Library / online