What’s happening at your library?
Valley City State University – today is Jennifer Jenness’ last day at Valley City. She is starting at NDSU. They are in a process of searching for a new library director. Also gearing up for students returning soon.
UND – Not many people in the library this week as many have gone to tour libraries in Florida and Georgia. To look at how their libraries are run, how they have their web pages set up, how their systems work, what cool things they are doing and to bring those ideas back to our library. The fourth round of system librarian applications are in and they will be interviewing people next week.
Minot State University – their new library director is Jolene Nechiporenko. They are glad to have her.
Bismarck State College – This summer they have been doing a lot of shelf reading and replacing old faded spine labels. Also going through their audio CD collection and withdrawing a lot of them.
NDSU – Excited to have Jennifer Jenness join them as director of Research and Engagement. They also are recruiting for other positions, data and digital strategies, and student success librarian. They are continuing with the green glass weeding project and implementation of Rialto, and getting ready for the return of students in the next couple of weeks.
NDSCS – getting ready for fall, library instruction sessions, and Libguide cleanup, and meeting with program coordinators.
Mayville State University – weeding A through D in their collection, and realizing those books have never really gotten touched. The adhesive of the old books smells bad. Kelly is on DPI’s computer science and cybersecurity standards for K-12. The process for revising those standards has started, so if you have strong feelings about what you think high school students who are moving to college should know feel free to send her an email.
New Topics:
- New Fields available to display in the Physical Items search results. These are based on the logged-in user. It is useful if you regularly scan for this information because you can see it without going into each item. Now available:
- Public note
- Fulfillment note
- Internal notes
- Statistics notes
- Receiving date
- Receiving operator
- New Fields available to display in the Physical Items list table. Now available:
- Condition
- Fulfillment note
- Internal note 1
- Statistics note 1
- Ability to add multiple items for a holdings record using item templates.
- New All Titles search user interface in Alma is planned for the November release. We have arranged with Ex Libris to have the new title UX added to our UND sandbox with the September release on August 18. Ex Libris’ rollout plan for the new search UX:
- November 24 release – general availability of the new UX in opt-in, meaning it will not be turned on out of the box, but any user who wants to switch to it can.
- February 25 release - general availability of the new UX in opt-out, meaning it will be turned on for all users, but a user can still choose to opt-out and work with the previous UX.
- The eventual sunset of old UX will be sometime in 2025.
- Learn more about the new title search UX here.
- How interested is this group in the release notes and discussion relating to Alma’s roadmap on linked open data?
- Shelby says they don’t have a plan for linked data yet, and she is curious to see when the librarians come back if the libraries they visited are doing something. She is watching what OCLC is doing and hoping to be ready.
- Michael says that given more and more of it is coming in, it seems like it’s becoming increasingly important to at least have an idea of what’s going on.
- Shelby said some of it is simply to display your data differently in a web environment, and some of it is to make it open to other sources. In Alma, the data is not open to anybody outside of the customer base whereas with Google you should be able to find a book we have and it shouldn’t be prohibited by being behind the wall of Ex Libris. The whole point is it should be findable on the Internet by anybody. She thinks we should be open to what’s new out there in case we suddenly have a brainstorm and want to try something.
- Liz will start including linked data release notes in the meeting agenda.
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