Meeting Minutes for 02/04/2020

Demo of new features, bug fixes, and documentation for the upcoming release

• Release Notes

Discussion of development priorities for the next release 

• Road Map

Current Release

• PHP Language Update and PHP 3rd Party Library
  • Would like to get some performance improvements from the upgrade

Next Release/Quarter

• Projects that will be worked on for  next quarter 
  • Record Grouping Adjustments
  • Admin User Options
  • Stability Version - Search: Indexing
  • Horizon ROA Driver
  • Control of Econtent Manifestation Display in Search Results and Grouped Work Views

Other discussion topics

Sierra API bug for holds with status In-Transit (Minute16:13;23)

• Sierra API does not reliably report the ‘in-transit’ status with INN-Reach holds and regular holds.
• The item displays as ‘on hold’ and remains in the pending holds section.
• This was called out during the January 7th meeting under the discussion topic of “Sierra / III ticket concerning item hold status from API” (Minute 30:07;17).
• With a hold that is actually in-transit, the API will usually fail to report that the item is in-transit.
• There is a support ticket that was opened up with III about this issue.

Cataloging Nerds Collective

• Ashley will be sending Doodle Poll to schedule our first meeting - aiming for mid-February.

3 versions of Pika are now copyrighted officially (Minute 19:17;21)

• Fork from VuFind.
• Fork with Sierra API integrations.
• Marmot will copyright Pika on a yearly basis to make sure we have a version of our code that is officially protected by copyright provision.

Reports from libraries on special projects

• Girls Who Code (GWC) and Marmot partnership
  • GWC is a non-profit organization that gets its funding from major technology companies. 
  • GWC addresses gender inequity within the fields of computer science by encouraging girls to get involved in coding clubs.
  • Currently, they have two different levels.  One for elementary level and another for 6 grade up until senior level.
  • They are starting to put together a version of a higher education partnership. 
  • Marmot libraries are able to register for Marmot-aligned GWC clubs and receive more funding.
  • GWC clubs come with a predesigned curriculum and no coding knowledge is required from library staff or volunteers.

Next Meeting is Tuesday, March 3, 2020