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Meeting Minutes

SPOT conference call 6/22/09 *minutes*

Submitted by Jean Fenske

*Introductions*

Everyone introduced themselves and spoke about their area of expertise and vision for the future of Summit.

*Discussed our charge from the Alliance.*

*Discussed Policy survey (Summit and ILL, Worldcat Local, local holds,**combined ILL/Summit)*
Action Item: send your suggestions to for questions to include in the policy/procedure survey to fenskej@evergreen.edu. Jean Fenske will gather the questions by 7/3/09 and send to Elizabeth Duell to create a online survey to send out to the institutions contacts by 7/10/09. Survey results will be discussed at the next SPOT conference call. Survey results will be tabulated to distribute to members via email and at Summit Borrowing Day.


*Discussed gathering statistics for Summit and ILL*

Action item -Rick Peterson will create a list of specific statistics to ask for from each institution. Data will be collected via online survey distributed by Alliance HQ (Elizabeth Duell)


*Summit Day Planning*

Action Item- Bill Kelm will contact the Circ list to find presenters for Summit Day. If he does not find volunteers we will draft people. Hopefully we will get respondents from diverse institutions with varying local policies and practices. The following presenters are needed. 3 presenters (5 min) from 3 institutions to illustrate different day to day Summit workflow. Shipping. Receiving, Returning. 3 presenters (10 min) from 3 institutions to illustrate their ILL workflow. ILLIAD, CLIO, WCRS(?) 3presenters (5 min) from 3 institutions to talk about in detail about troubleshooting the NRE Work Queues and creating Too long reports. Team agreed to look over Summit day schedule and send any suggestions to Anya Arnold. Final plans for Summit day will be discussed at the next SPOT call.

*SPOT team brainstormed ideas for the face to face meeting in July.*


Agenda Ideas:

  • Creating best practices documents, integrating what we have learned at Summit day.
  • Problem reporting
  • Creating a usability study for the along with the Usability committee
  • Understanding the ROTA (Kyle Banerjee)
  • Physical processing of items. Book bands, labels, boxes.
  • Creating a SPOT newsletter. To include informal conference proceedings from Summit Day
  • Communications
  • Promotional and informational materials for library staff and patrons
  • Transition guide for sites moving to Worldcat Local
  • "Pie in the Sky" planning. Hopes and dreams for Summit in the future.
  • Planning transition to unified form in Navigator for Summit and ILL borrowing.