Meeting Minutes for 08/01/2017

Discovery Committee Meeting
August 1, 2017
Minutes

Committee Chair

• Mark Noble nominated Beth Gallinger from the Flatirons Library consortium
• Beth accepted the nomination
• Jimmy Thomas will submit Beth’s name to the Marmot Board President for approval
• A big “Thank you” to Jon Solomon for his years of service as the chair

Sierra Upgrade Aftermath

• The recent release was Sierra 3.1 caused issues for Pika
• Due dates stopped being exported from the ILS
• This issue causes Pika to think that everything is checked out
• Marmot has some workarounds from Innovative/iii (Triple i)
• Workaround
  • Marmot can manually export the data, and run the index manually
  • Marmot has spoken with people all the way up the chain of command at iii about a fix for the issue
  • They have confirmed that a fix is not coming anytime soon (maybe months away)
  • R & D is at the point where they need to code an alternative solution
  • This could be done with Sierra DNA and exporting
  • The plan is to code a fix in the upcoming release
  • It will be deployed as a hot patch, as soon as it works

Priorities for Next Release

Review of the status from the previous and current months.

Priority

• Anne Arundel
  • Some cleanup still needed
  • On target to launch in August
  • New features for Anne Arundel benefits all members
• CARL.X for Nashville
  • Launched in July
  • Still a few things to cleanup
• Garfield Website Migration
  • Moving Garfield website from their server to the Marmot server
  • Will launch in August
  • Just need to get it setup on the live server
• iii Export Workaround
  • See notes for the Sierra upgrade aftermath
  • This may take quite a bit of time
  • This will replace the manual processes that are used as a workaround
• Sideload Catch-up
  • We will continue to work on sideloading
• Red Book in the Archive
  • On hold
  • Will start in time
  • Programmer dependent
• Search Bugs
  • Feel free to keep voting

Other Work Completed

• Implemented Zinio/RBdigital Suggestion
• Sierra Upgraded and Related Issues
• Migrated Marmot FTP Server

Pika Roadmap

• Later this year, the team will be working on E-Content Improvements
• Also working on EDS and Bento Box Integration for academic libraries

Conversation topics:

• Specification for the prompt to check out an alternate non-fiction edition when current edition is not available
• We hope to implement this month