2023.08.29 - Agenda and notes

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

  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

  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.