SFX System Committee Minutes: 01/10/2018

Minutes

Attendance:

Members attending: Steve Brantley, Karen Gallacci, Andrea Imre, Max King, Lisa Wallis, Erika Wade Smith, Geoff Pettys,

Members absent: Laurie Sauer, Peter Tubbs

CARLI Staff attending: Denise Green

Decisions:

1.    Review of Nov. 8, 2017 minutes.  The minutes were approved with one correction.

CARLI Update:

2.    CARLI Update   
a. The next SFX Quarterly Conference call on Jan. 18 will focus on the new A-Z ebook list & CitationLinker/Fetch Item.  
b. Denise will soon email libraries with each SFX instance’s count of electronic serials as of Dec. 2017.
c. CARLI staff will archive SFX usage stats on Jan. 25, 2018.

Discussion items:

a.    Follow up on VuFind action items from Nov. 8th meeting.

b.    SFX video lessons. All discussed the usage report of these tutorials including which ones could be removed, which ones need updating and additional video lessons for the future. Lisa will assist with a lesson about customizing CSS in SFX A-Z lists. The committee may revisit the video lessons at future meetings.
 
c.    Follow up on VuFind action items from Oct. 20 meeting.    
 
i.    Action item: Committee will test VuFind 4 keyword relevancy after Denise and colleagues work to improve it.
Report from Denise: This is still in VuFind enhancement queue, and there is no timeline yet for development/implementation.  

ii.    Action item: Ask for a list of compatible authentication systems and will add this to the FAQ.
Report from Denise: Partial list added. No additional info to report.

iii.    Action item: Ask developer if a generic SFX button could be added instead of customized buttons; then send out a survey asking for libraries’ preferences for button in terms of logo and language.
Report from Denise: No longer needed since developer has customized buttons display ready for production new VuFind and viewable in ishare-test. Expect to implement soon.

iv.    Action item: Ask developer if it is possible to have facets compressed as default rather than open. She will also ask if libraries can have option to rearrange order of facets.
Report from Denise: Since this not an option in old VuFind, it had not been considered in VuF4 and there is no easy configuration or set up option in programming to do so. (No change to report.)

v.    Action item: Ask if developer can hide “suggested topics” at top.
Report from Denise: This is now in VuFind enhancement queue; no timeline yet for development/implementation.

vi.    Action item: Ask developer if they can remove “Search alternatives.”
Report from Denise: Now in VuFind enhancement queue; no timeline yet for development/implementation.

vii.    Action item: Ask if developer can add a journal title search option.
Report from Denise: Now in VuFind enhancement queue, no timeline yet.

viii.    Action item: Option for excluding resource types in search (“hide e-resources I don’t have access to”).
Report from Denise: This is back in VuFind enhancement queue with no timeline yet for development/implementation. (No change to report.)

ix.    Action item: Create a new section in the Google Doc for SFX Committee to comments on likes/dislikes of SFX and VuFind 4. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vlEd20rcyF_CicwHE4Qe7jrYC9EXpjsAoOvPwhAs-YA/edit?usp=sharing )

x.    Action item: Committee should continue to look at new VuFind and report back any features they are interested in implementing.
Report from Denise:  VuFind 4 now available.

xi.    Action item: Discussed the feature used by U of Chicago whereby SFX links/menu displays on the full bib record (see example at  https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/2363166 ) Committee discussion: Agreed that this is a valuable feature and we should request this enhancement.   
Report from Denise: This is in VuFind enhancement queue with no timeline yet for development/implementation.

4.    Annual project/deliverable. SFX and New VuFind OPAC was briefly reviewed. Will be due to CARLI approximately May 24, 2018.

5.    Steve reported on the CARLI annual meeting. He will send out documents from the meeting to the committee.

Next meeting date:

Next meeting date: Feb. 14, 2018.