Minutes of January 21, 1998 Meeting

Present:

T. Evans, J. Gardner, P. Graham, R. Marker, A. Montanaro, B. Warwick, M. Witteman, H. Hemmasi (recorder)

Absent:

N. Hendrickson, M. Page

1. Witteman reported that all re-indexing has been completed and that all results will be in place by 1/22/98.

2. Enhancement suggestions from the Unicorn Users Group International were organized and consolidated by volunteer Special Interest group leaders and the Enhancement Coordinator. Enhancements were suggested in the categories of: reports, systems, serials control, requests, acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, OPAC, accountability, and general.

Members of the Users Group have been asked to vote on these enhancements, with each institution submitting a ballot with a total of 56 points.

LIS-IMP members were asked to confer with their committee members and make suggestions on which enhancements were most critical to their particular area of interest.

Discussion in the LIS-IMP meeting about the preferred ratings of these enhancements led to the following choices. Mark Witteman will submit the ballot to the Users Group on behalf of RUL.

** 5 votes each **

• ACQ001 track accurate commitments
• ACQ003 pay for parts separately
• CAT007 materials with multiple characteristics
• CIR001 display recall due date in self-services
• CIR007 closed fine records should indicate payment reason on screen
• CIR014 remove reserve for single item
• OPAC08 call number search across all libraries
• SYS005 revise security features of system policies

** 3 votes each **

• CAT004 suppress the display of blind "see also" cross references
• OPAC01 treat hyphen as a space in searching
• OPAC13 fix truncation function in keyword searching
• SER002 renumbering and inserting check-ins
• SER006 identification of serials orders by delivery site

** 1 vote **

• SYS004 gateway elements import/export function

** VOTED AGAINST **

• REQ003 bring user's name & address onto request form

Anyone wishing further information on any of these enhancements can contact any member of the LIS Implementation committee.