SFX System Committee, March 12, 2014

Attendance

Members Present

Elizabeth Bernal (Chicago School of Professional Psychology); Xiaotian Chen (Bradley University); Anita Foster, chair (Illinois State University); Denise Green (Millikin University);  Andrea Imre (Southern Illinois University Carbondale); Stacey Knight-Davis (Eastern Illinois University); Jim Millhorn (Northern Illinois University); Steve Oberg, minutes taker (Wheaton College)

Members Absent

Jared Wellman (Lincoln Land Community College)

Staff Present

Paige Weston

Business

1. Anita convened the meeting @ 10:03a.

2. Post mortem meeting – Anita. Might be useful for CARLI and members to
   discuss how the first year went. In person, for June 12? Probably
   would be a ½ day meeting. Committee agreed. Discussion will be on
   reports from sub-committee work, future work, etc.

3. “Report a broken link” feature — Paige. Reported on libraries that
   hadn’t turned it off and/or hadn’t added a direct email. Majority of
   those who’ve taken action has chosen to add a direct email rather than
   turn off the functionality altogether. Around twenty libraries hadn’t
   taken action yet.

4. Transparent pixel issue – Xiaotian. Seen lots of evidence of issue in
   his library. Evidence shows it is not browser dependent. Solutions
   have been posted to SFX-DISCUSS-L but we should be reluctant to
   implement a solution until/unless we can readily replicate the problem
   and then test the solution. Liz reported this error to Ex Libris (she
   has an Ex Libris-hosted instance, not a CARLI-hosted instance), and received
   instructions from them about how to fix. They described it as a known
   issue that should have been fixed over several service pack
   updates. They believe it’s caused by a local template file that isn’t
   symbolically linked. Paige wanted to see these instructions to then
   compare with template setup at CARLI institutions who’ve reported
   having this problem (e.g. Bradley, Illinois Wesleyan). Liz will email
   instructions to the committee (already done immediately after the
   meeting concluded). Xiaotian suggested more people try the replication
   steps posted to SFX-DISCUSS-L that two institutions have said
   guarantee that the problem will happen. Denise suggested that a big
   wrinkle or hurdle to replicating adequately might be proxy/security
   settings in local environment.

5. Working group updates — All. 

   1. Paige noted updates to glossary earlier
      today. Stacey noted that she had added the updates originally back in
      December but they were lost due to a wiki glitch. Glossary working
      group would like another week to review and finalize, and will email
      committee when finalized. Committee agreed to discuss final glossary
      in April meeting. Anita noted that this will be a living document that
      will continue to change and update over time, and we may wish to
      accept “good enough” for CARLI, to which the committee agreed. The
      training working group will adopt the “good enough” approach as well;

   2. Paige noted she has reviewed recorded video clips from Cathy Salika
      and we will model our training clips after them, including written
      scripts. This working group will meet in person @ CARLI on 26 of
      March.

   3. Jim briefly discussed survey working group’s update. Survey
      seems ready to go based on feedback from committee; Anita suggested
      sending out the survey link again for one last review before survey is
      ready for CARLI review. Anita suggested 28 of March for deadline for
      last committee review. Jim will email survey link to committee after
      meeting.

6. Other issues — All. Jim mentioned “This article may be under embargo”
   message that appears for EBSCOhost links to ILLiad. Paige and Xiaotian
   mentioned that there is a solution to it by modifying Display Logic
   rules. Andrea suggested Jim send example OpenURL of the problem to the
   committee, which he plans to do. Xiaotian will share details of his
   workaround/solution with committee as well (already done immediately
   after conclusion of meeting).

7. Steve highlighted, for future
   consideration, the deep integration of OpenURL services in next gen
   ILS development, and how this might be something to consider for the
   I-Share Next committee. We might not have a standalone OpenURL service
   like SFX. Anita suggested that this committee should note this for
   communication and collaboration with that newly formed committee as
   they begin deliberations.

Next Meeting: April 9, 2014