Minutes of November 22, 2004 Meeting

Present:

Stephanie Bartz (recorder), Natalie Borisovets, Ellen Calhoun, Linda Langschied, Bob Warwick

Excused:

Vibiana Cvetkovic

Useful links

The IRIS Test Catalog and the SIRSI Academic & Research Library Clients list will be added to the Useful Links section of the IPAC staff pages. Stephanie will contact Sam McDonald.

iLink

SIRSI iLink software has been installed in the IRIS Test Catalog and is available for review. After a general overview of the delivered version of iLink it was decided that a review of other iLink sites is warranted. The alphabetical list of links provided by SIRSI at:

http://www.sirsi.com/Sirsiclients/academicclients.html

will be split up in six sections to be reviewed by IPAC members as follows:

A thru D - Stephanie
E thru H - Natalie
I thru L - Ellen
M thru P - Linda
Q thru T - Bob
U thru Z - Vib

Bob will begin customizing the delivered version of iLink to reflect some of the decisions already made with regard to Webcat, plus some decisions arrived at after an initial review of iLink. After IPAC has completed the initial rounds of customization the rest of RUL will be asked for input.

Main page

• remove the Login to iLink option from the top bar
• remove the Highest Interest Items box
• create a combined keyword/browse pulldown menu following the Vanderbilt Acorn model

Search results screens

• remove the Search for Google option

Hit lists

• remove call numbers from display
• remove number of copies available from display
• change holdings line to mirror WebCat

Single record displays

• remove the brief view of the record that appears at the top of display, but retain the "record # of # for search…" and the Keep checkbox
• change the Status of items to display as IN-LIBRARY, etc. to mirror WebCat
• add numbers to items listed in browse list
• in the browse list, move numbers indicating the number of times a heading is indexed closer to the heading (instead of listing them in a separate column of the table)

My account

• remove "holds availability" column since the number displayed is always 1

Other features discussed but not decided:

• keep, reconfigure, or remove Library Info section on main page
• keep or remove More by this author and More like this buttons on search results pages?
• keep or remove You found titles in these categories (subject headings) and Try these too (authorities control) options displayed at right of search results?
• display library codes OR library descriptions on single record displays?
• retain Recommend to order option? (Consult collection development group after initial customization is complete)
• keep or remove user initiated Holds cancellation option from My Account area? (Consult Access Services after initial customization is complete)

Bob was also asked to follow-up on the possibility of generating a list of new books sorted by broad subject as discussed at previous IPAC meetings.

362 Field for Serials

There was a brief discussion of whether the 362 field (Dates of publication and/or sequential designation) should display on serials records. The general consensus was that the field was not needed.

Next meeting: December 20, 2004, 1:30 p.m., Nicholas Rutgers Room

The meeting schedule for spring 2005 will be set at the December 2004 meeting.

11/22/2004sb, revised 11/23/2004