Meeting Minutes for 09/01/2020
Demo of new features, bug fixes, and documentation for the upcoming release (Minute )
- Release Notes
- Special deployment schedule for Marmot libraries
Discussion of development priorities for the next release (Minute 43:39)
- Road Map
- Feature requests will be built into the development priorities moving forward
Current Release
- Stability Version - Search: Display and Interface
- Stability Version - Search: Indexing
- Stability Version - Search: Format Determination
- Stability Version - Search: Language
- The search improvement is the next major project
- Control of Econtent Manifestation Display in Search Results and Grouped Work Views
- Work will be done on how eContent is displayed when you have copies of the same title from multiple sources
- The development priorities may change throughout the quarter
Other discussion topics
- Pika Enhancement Value Survey (Minute 45:44)
- This survey is now closed (closed 09.04.20)
- Participants were asked to vote on the one item that was of most value for your library user and employees
- Participants were asked to vote on the one item was of least value to their library
- The final question asked participants to rate the value of the items that remained
- Just a word of caution, not everything can be in the middle, so please rank the rest of the items according to their importance for your library
- Libraries are encouraged to fill out the survey because this is where your input helps set the direction for Pika development
- Description of enhancements and user stories
- Preliminary results (not complete!)
- Clarifications needed
- How to do this next release?
- Would you like to complete the survey during the meeting?
- If you could not attend the meeting, you could complete the survey later
- RBdigital to Overdrive (Minute 53:29)
- eBooks and eAudio will be moved to your Overdrive collections
- eMagazines are in a holding pattern and haven’t been moved
- Will still act like a normal sideload for the time being
- Reports from libraries on special projects
- Lake County is working on getting their Library of Things (LOT) going
- They will loan out telescopes, craft kits, and microscopes, bird watching kits, projector and screen, guitars, and coding stuff
- Addison also has a Library of Things collection as well
- Vail is going to be installing their first storywalk
- Lake County is working on getting their Library of Things (LOT) going
The next meeting is Tuesday, December 8, 2020