Withdrawl Materials

Kay Bauman (LO) stated that the first update on the purchase of a new Integrated Library System was posted on the intranet in June 2012 and that it has been and will continue to be a long and complicated process through the final implementation. As of this meeting, the recommended ILS has not been chosen but is expected to be finalized in the next few days. References from libraries using the different systems are currently being checked and each vendor is undergoing a vetting process. The ILS Task Force recommendation will be taken to the Finance Committee on Monday, November 11 and then to the Commission on November 21. The next step will be negotiations with the chosen vendor.

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in December was 1 working day; average for the first half of FY13 is 1.29 working days. This includes only time that materials were in Cataloging; it does not include time in Technical Processing.

In December, the average turnaround time for borrowing materials in ILL was 12 calendar days. This includes only time from the date requests are sent out from ILL to the date that they are received in ILL; it does not include routing time between MLS libraries and ILL.

The average daily run for December was 755 items per day, for a total of 14,354 items in December. The average for January so far is 902 items per day. The processors are still current on processing all “rush” materials; they are processing non-rush materials from January 10, which is from the run 6 working days ago. Study guides and dated materials like continuations are also current.

Welcome

Julie Ballou welcomed everyone to Circ Forum, thanked DC for hosting and Patty Ortiz for bringing refreshments. She asked all clerks present to introduce themselves.
V-Circ Proposal Update

Tech Group has accepted the revised proposal and Jimmy Welch is working on a prototype. Manager’s Comment box did not get approved. V-Circ will open to the message page similar to the Stops pop-up box for notification.