Meeting Minutes for 01/07/2020

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
  • Chris has made a lot of progress 
  • He will continue working on it for January
  •  The Pika team expects to be able to upgrade all the Pika sites to PHP 7 at their next release
• Implement RBdigital Magazines APIs
  • Marmot has decided to move up the RBdigital API integration for Pika 
  • Patron interactions and maybe availability will be possible 
  • Marmot is doing this because RBdigital has expanded its magazine offerings 
  • The API integration is just for magazines at this time
  • Once Pascal looks at the API, he can determine if API is unified for all their platforms
• Control of EContent Manifestations Display in Search Results and Grouped Work Views
  • If there is extra bandwidth Marmot will try to do this project
  • This will allow libraries to select which eContent source displays first in the grouping 
  • The place hold button or the access online button will control  the priority for the display for the eContent sources  

Other discussion topics

• OverDrive Settings for Hold Queue Position (Minute 14:55;01)
  • Members suggested that the hold queue position be turned off for OverDrive due to the Advantage Plus shared holds
  • Patrons find it very confusing when they move backward because of the way Advantage Plus works.
  • Ashley suggested that it might be something that can be made an option in the OverDrive settings to turn off or on.  
  • Discovery Chat Log
• Sierra Scheduler full export jobs (Minute 25:29;18)
  • We can begin to obsolete these for Sierra libraries using APIs
    • You can turn the job off, but please let us know if you do so we can change some configuration settings
  • What the process entails, intermittent needs for full exports
    • E.g. stats rollovers, large global changes (more than 10k records)
    • If making changes over for more than 10K records, you should alert staff that statuses may be off in Pika until the process catches up
• Sierra / III ticket concerning item hold status from API (Minute 30:07;17)
  • The item status and hold status are getting out of sync, so the API is not getting a proper status
  • This is a bug in Sierra API version 5 that does not exist in version 4
  • The III ticket has the status of “In progress”
  • Until resolved by III, the ‘in transit’ status for a hold may not display as such (specifically with version 5 of APIs)
  • The holds are showing up in the users account in Pika 
  • This was reported more by Marmot libraries
• Lynda.com updates (Minute 32:11;17)
  • Seems like folks still have access via their library card numbers in the Lynda site (Chris is still able to use Mesa County Card to access Lynda)
  • In terms for libraries who are keeping it, Marmot is still getting to get a MARC download right now
  • Marmot does not know if the authentication is working as it should, or the holds are being updated   
  • Let the Pika team know if you are going to keep up with LinkedIn Learning and you experience any record access problems
  • Discovery Chat Log
• Subject facet documentation (Minute 35:40;04)
  • Lloyd Chittenden wanted to talk with the group about the subject facets
  • Lloyd wanted to talk about what the facets are actually doing in the background
  • The facets are pulling the subject headings apart in a way that they were not intended which is leading to weird results
  • Lloyd reviewed all the issues with the subjects listed on the Available Subject Facets documentation
  • Lloyd suggested that the Subject facet is the most useful one and with a little tweaking (like excluded genres) could be more useful until there was a working group created to discuss changes needed for the subject facets
  • Action Item: Ashley will coordinate a small working group
    • Charge of defining what the facets ‘mean’
    • e.g. topic vs. subject
• Reports from libraries on special projects
  • The following libraries have gone fines free
    • Bud Werner (Marmot)
    • Grand County (Marmot)
    • Mesa County  (Marmot)
    • Anne Arundel (fines free for kids only)
    • Bounder County (Flatirons Consortium)

Next Meeting is Tuesday, February 4, 2020