Minutes of the of the ILS Software & Service Committee

Wednesday, January 25, 2018

10 am – 11 am

Conference Call

Members Present:

Name / Title / Institution
Christina Prucha / Director of Library Services / State Technical College of Missouri
Renee Gorrell (Board Member) / Library and Information Services Director / Goldfarb School of Nursing
Joanna DeYoung / Purchasing/Serials Assistant / Lindenwood University
Melissa Hopkins / Library Director / Mineral Area College
JulieHousknecht / Technical Services Librarian / University of Missouri-Columbia
Steve Strohl / Associate Director, Member Services / MOBIUS
Donna Bacon (Ex Officio) / MOBIUS Executive Director / MOBIUS

Members Absent:

Donna Bacon (Ex Officio) / MOBIUS Executive Director / MOBIUS

Name: ILS Software & Services Committee

CHARGE:Working in conjunction with MOBIUS staff, this committee will be responsible for monitoring and researching current ILS library software trends and related product offerings. This committee will engage the membership and make recommendations benefiting the MOBIUS membership regarding product enhancements & service improvements. This committee will be responsible for making formal recommendations to the MOBIUS Board for final consideration.

Website:

(Old) E-mail lists:

For the committee:

Interested members of MOBIUS:

Guests or Proxies Present:

None.

  1. Call to order and introductions via UberConference
  • The meeting was called to order by Christina at 10:05 am.
  1. Agenda
  • Christina called for an adoption of the Agenda.
  • Accepted by acclimation (Renee & Joanna).
  1. Old Business - Recap
  2. Revised name was approved at the December 8th, 2017 Board Meeting.
  3. Steve talked about the pro’s and con’s of establishing the new listserv names. Discussion on the clarity of the change and why this is important.
  4. Julie supports making the change Christina made the motion to sunset the old names / come up with the new names for both listservs – something like ILS-SoftwareServices (final name TBD).
  5. Renee seconded / Accepted by acclimation.
  6. We can look to transition this going into next month.
  7. New Business
  8. “Learning from others…” – Steve had mentioned that we should seek to utilize the contacts Donna has made throughout the IUG and across ICOLC and as issues come up, we should seek to talk to folks on issues pertaining to Sierra/Resource Sharing, or just training and technology in general. Clearly, we should think about what we need and from there, try and determine who we can reach out to and learn from.
  9. Comments on making this a component of our work.
  10. Joining Innovative’s Sierra listserv - this is a good resource for issues and the key folks who talk about these issues. Right now, if you don’t already have an account with Innovative & you are not signed up for one of their listservs currently, we’ll need to open a ticket with Innovative with your work e-mail addresses (no Yahoo, Gmail, etc).
  11. Direction for Committee:
  12. Christina: Seek input on future short webinars / training sessions; things we can do and how we can downstream the knowledge even more.
  13. What do we want to do? Christina: Survey to being with. Lunchtime webinars. A 20 minute hits and more.
  14. Renee and Christina, like the idea.
  15. Julie: Who would do this?
  16. Steve: MOBIUS but others could as well; let’s see what the needs turn out to be.
  17. Topics / areas /ILS and related.
  18. Survey / ideas – to bring to bear on what we’re doing.
  19. Feedback on training / training materials.
  20. Committee can act as a sounding board, etc.
  21. Encourage Board members and others who are going to be attending any professional conference to keep note anything we should be kept apprised of for future consideration. ALA Midwinter?
  22. Next Steps:
  23. New reference on the web site – done.
  24. New lists for both the committee & non-committee members – coming soon.
  25. Christina will work on a draft e-mail announcing our changes to the membership as a whole and encourage folks who are interested to join our non-committee
  26. Adjourn Meeting: The meeting was adjourned at 10:50 a.m.

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