MnLINK Gateway Operations Committee Meeting

MnLINK Gateway Operations Committee Meeting

An Information and Resource
Sharing Program of the
Minnesota Office of Higher
Education and the University
of Minnesota Libraries
MnLINK Gateway Operations
Committee Meeting
Thursday, February 4, 2016
1. Welcome and Introductions
Who do we have in
attendance today?
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
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Gateway Server Sites
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Anoka County Library
Arrowhead Library System
Carver County Library
CLIC
Dakota County Library
Duluth Public Library
East Central Regional Library
Great River Regional Library
Hennepin County Library
Kitchigami Regional Library
Lake Agassiz Regional Library &
Northwest Regional Library
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MnPALS
Pioneerland Library System
Plum Creek Library System
Ramsey County Library
Rochester Public Library
Saint Paul Public Library
Scott County Library System
SELCO
Traverse des Sioux Library System
University of Minnesota
Viking Library System
Washington County Library
Other attendees?
2. Review/Approve Meeting Agenda
1.
Welcome & Introductions
2. Review/Approve Meeting Agenda
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 Are there
changes/additions to
the agenda?
4.
Review/Approve Meeting Minutes from Thursday, November 5,
2015
Transition to OCLC WorldCat Discovery
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MnLINK Gateway Marketing Committee
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 Action: vote to
approve the agenda
w/wo changes.
Progress of committee work
Logo survey results
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MnLINK Gateway Statistics – July - Dec FY16 – Becky Ringwelski
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Ebooks MN update – Valerie Horton
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Recommendation on Vice-Chair position – Peg Werner
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Next meeting of Committee – in person? – Peg Werner
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Other
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Meeting with OCLC staff at ALA
Batchloading/Reclamation
Configuration of OCLC WorldCat Discovery
May 5, 2016
3. Review/approve Meeting Minutes
Thursday, November 5, 2015
 Minutes were distributed in an e‐mail on February 2, 2016
 Suggestions for changes?
 Action: We need to vote to approve the minutes w/wo
changes
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4. Transition to OCLC WorldCat Discovery
 Meeting with OCLC staff at
ALA in January
 Project plan developed
 Batchloading/reclamation
 Configuration of OCLC
WorldCat Discovery
 Webpage for search
 Minitex ILL Conference
 May 10, 2016
 MnLINK Gateway session
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4. Transition to OCLC WorldCat Discovery (con’t)
Timeline:
April 2016 – set up test system
with key functionality in place
July 2016 – implement new
discovery system with VDX for ILL
and staff searching
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5. MnLINK Gateway Marketing Committee
Progress of Committee Work
Members
 Logo Survey
 Nick Banitt - Minitex
 Carrie Braaten – Anoka
Public Library
 Marjorie DeJong –
Pioneerland Library System
 Sarah Hawkins – East
Central Regional Library
 Zach Miller – Minitex
 Becky Ringwelski - Minitex
 Reagen Thalacker – SELCO
 Brochure rewrite
 Other marketing
materials – survey
coming
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5. MnLINK Gateway Marketing Committee (con’t)
Logo Survey Results
 Current logo over ten
years old
 209 responses!
 MNLINK in uppercase
All Logo options
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Logo 1 results
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Logo 2 results
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Logo 3 results
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Logo color results
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The winner is…..
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6. MnLINK Gateway Statistics
1st Half FY16
 MnLINK Gateway Borrowing 240,634 requests compared
to last year at 241,767
 Fill-rate has remained steady
at 77%
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7. Ebooks MN Update
Next steps
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8. Recommendation on Vice-Chair Position
 Last election was at in
person meeting in June
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9. Next meeting of Committee May 5, 2016
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10. Other
Anything else?
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Adjourn
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An Information and Resource
Sharing Program of the
Minnesota Office of Higher
Education and the University
of Minnesota Libraries
Thank You
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