2023.08.29 - Agenda and notes

2023.08.29 - (Tuesday) 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - NEKLS / online

No recording of this meeting was made

Agenda

1. Announcements, news, brief items, etc.

   • Introductions

   • Additions to the agenda

   • NEKLS is co-funding a “Holds available digest” with 5 other libraries

   • Bug with “invisible” notices is fixed

2. 2024 participation agreement draft

   • 2024 Draft participation agreement

3. 2024 Privacy and confidentiality statement draft

   • 2024 Draft confidentiality statement

   • We will go over this document piece by piece at this meeting and revew confideniality in general

   • Sometime by the end of 2024 there will be a “click-through” on the login page of the staff-client

4. 2024 plan to create a Next Search Catalog privacy policy

   • Based on principals of GDPR (GDPR principals from EU)

   • Pathfinder Central privacy policy

   • Informs patrons what data is kept in Next Search Catalog and how they go about removing their data

   • “Do you consent to cookies” messages are coming to the Koha OPAC soon

5. Removing the “Female/Male/Other/None specified” buttons on borrower accounts

   • On August 26, 2023, these buttons will be removed from Next (with the upgrade)

   • On September 15, 2023, all “Female/Male/Other/None specified” data in Next Search Catalog will be deleted

   • Run report 3752 on or before September 14 if you wish to get a borrower count based on this data

6. Change the “noissuecharges” system preference from $10.00

   • This system preference prevents borrowers from checking out items, renewing, etc. when they owe more than $10.00

   • Some libraries feel that $10.00 is too low

7. Item type issues

   • Unused and will be deleted soon

     • E-content : E-learning course

   • Most uses of these items types are redundant or could be better done with other item types:

     • Special collections (local requests only)

     • Video (Local requests only)

     • Video (No requests allowed)

   • Next Search Catalog will be able to automatically block the miss-use of the “Book (local requests only)” and “Book (no requests allowed)” item types after the next upgrade cycle

   • I’m working on a document that lists and describes every current existing item type

8. Changes to borrower categories coming in 2024:

   • Student (exempt) - school district use only

   • Student (public library) - public library use only

   • Teacher/Faculty/Administrator (exempt) - school district use only

   • Teacher/Faculty/Administrator (public library) - public library use only

   • Homeschool (proposed new borrower category)

   • Many borrower category codes will change in 2024

9. Discuss locations for 2024 Next Search Catalog Meetings

   • First meeting in January at NEKLS

   • 3 other meetings outside of Lawrence

10. Next meeting

    • Meeting at Atchison Public Library: November 14 (Thursday) 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.