Meeting Minutes for 09/01/2020

Discovery Committee Meeting
September 1, 2020
Minutes

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

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

The next meeting is Tuesday, December 8, 2020  

 
Meeting Date: 
Tuesday, 2020, September 1
Documentation Type: 
Meeting Minutes
Committees: 
Discovery Committee