PKS Discovery/PAC User Group Meeting - October 2021

This is the monthly user group meeting to discuss Discovery/PAC issues related to ODIN Libraries using Polaris. We meet from 10-11 am central on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.

Please send along topics for the agenda at least a couple days prior to the scheduled meeting to the ODIN Facilitator or listserv listed below.

Agenda:

• Old Business – updates:
  • PAC search – should sort default to Most popular or Relevance?  Should revisit in a later meeting with larger attendance.
  • Potential issue with Overdrive titles showing up in PAC when not available to library – Renee submitted ticket (TD18106633). UPDATE?
  • Polaris outages in late August – stable now but Lead Engineer still investigating some issue possibly related to authentication. – UPDATE
  • Schedule for meetings – 2^nd Wednesday of each month still working – will revisit in next meeting 
• Roundtable Open Forum:
  • NDSL
    • Carolyn Sterenberg starts Oct 1^st – Public Services Director
  • DIP
    • Would be nice to rework the canned notices.  Will put in a ticket with more details and we will see what we can do.  UPDATE?

• NDLA mini-session on PAC customization options – Jason

• Chairperson for Discovery/PAC User Group – 2 year term starting in Jan 2022
  • Submit names in November
  • Election in December

• Topics for future discussion
• Questions/Comments/Feedback
• Next meeting November 10^th

If you would like to attend the meeting, but do not have the meeting link, please send an email to ODINHELP@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU and we will forward a link to you.

Connect with the group

• Listserv – ODIN-PKS-DISCOVERY@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
• User Group Page: https://www.odin.nodak.edu/pks/discovery/group
• ODIN Facilitator - Lynn Wolf (lynn.wolf@ndus.edu)