January 2025 - ilsevaluation-circ

2024-2025 ILS Evaluation - Circulation Workgroup recommendation report
by Heidi Oliversen 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

Hello: Thank you to the 8 members of the workgroup that submitted their recommendations on the poll. I have downloaded the Google doc into a Word doc format and written up a final recommendation from this group. The Word doc is attached to this email. Thanks again, Heidi O. -- Helping member libraries provide the best possible service to the public. Heidi Oliversen Circulation Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz St. Madison, WI 53704 608-242-4711 holiversen(a)scls.info Report ILS problems online at or call the Help Desk: (608) 242-4710 / toll free (855) 583-2435

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ILS Evaluation Circulation - Updated draft report and recommendation poll due Tuesday, January 28
by Heidi Oliversen 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '25

Hello! At the Workgroup meeting today, the group reviewed and edited the Pros and Cons of each vendor. The attending workgroup members did provide preferences for their first and second choice of vendor but since only 6 members of the workgroups (out of 19 total members) attended today's meeting, we need additional input from the rest of the workgroup. Please review the updated Circulation report<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J81ZPWv92xOmzC18dEphmo6CytXkp9CK/edit?u…> and add any changes you would like included. To determine a final recommendation, please vote for one or more of these products by Tuesday, January 28. Click here for a link to the poll.<https://forms.gle/Qm46hAbvQsffGKRE9> Please let me know if you have difficulty accessing the form. All workgroup members should submit a response to this poll. If there is no clear preference, we will meet sometime next week to clarify our recommendation. * If you feel that any of the products would work and you don't have a preference, please indicate that on the poll in the last question. For the purposes of this poll, we are only dealing with the Circulation functionality. Your recommendation should be based on the Circulation functionality of the product and not the overall system. Thank you, Heidi O. -- Helping member libraries provide the best possible service to the public. Heidi Oliversen Circulation Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz St. Madison, WI 53704 608-242-4711 holiversen(a)scls.info Report ILS problems online at or call the Help Desk: (608) 242-4710 / toll free (855) 583-2435

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ILS Evaluation Circulation Workgroup Meeting - Tuesday, Jan. 21 10pm
by Heidi Oliversen 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Good morning: The largest number of poll responders indicated that Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 10am is the best time for the next meeting of the ILS Evaluation Circulation Workgroup. Here is the Zoom meeteing information: Topic: ILS Evaluation Circulation Workgroup Time: Jan 21, 2025 10:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81633353979?pwd=K90NcdVYyqHVsAUDzacsblaC0rrcM4.1 Meeting ID: 816 3335 3979 Passcode: 3PuB0Ww7 If you haven't already done so, please look over the draft of the Circulation Workgroup Report<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J81ZPWv92xOmzC18dEphmo6CytXkp9CK/edit?u…> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J81ZPWv92xOmzC18dEphmo6CytXkp9CK/edit?u…> before the meeting and add your own pros and cons. At our meeting we can review this and make the final recommendation to the Lead Workgroup. ONE LAST NOTE: The ILS Evaluation Cataloging Workgroup will be using the Zoom meeting platform 11:00AM, right after our meeting, so we will need to make efficient use of our time. Heidi -- Helping member libraries provide the best possible service to the public. Heidi Oliversen Circulation Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz St. Madison, WI 53704 608-242-4711 holiversen(a)scls.info Report ILS problems online at or call the Help Desk: (608) 242-4710 / toll free (855) 583-2435

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ILS Evaluation Circulation Workgroup draft and meeting poll
by Heidi Oliversen 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Good afternoon: At our last meeting we talked about your impressions of the two vendors reviewed and I mentioned that the next step is create a preliminary recommendation report. I have created a draft of a recommendation report based on the meeting, the vendor demo checklist notes, and any vendor follow-up. The demo checklists notes and demo follow-up are linked here: https://www.scls.info/ils-evaluation-2024-2025#CIRC. Also, I have attached the notes from our last meeting. To move forward with compiling the recommendation report, there are a couple of tasks that you need to do. Poll for January meeting I have created a poll to find a date for a January workgroup<https://rallly.co/invite/GjZ4r0K4UXxq> meeting. Please complete this poll by Thursday, January 9, so the meeting can be scheduled. Preliminary report Here is the draft of the Circulation Workgroup Recommendation report<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J81ZPWv92xOmzC18dEphmo6CytXkp9CK/edit?u…>. Each vendor has a pros and cons section. I have filled in a number of pros and cons based on the demos and discussions (I had to stop as I kept getting mired down in the weeds). Please review this draft and add your own pros and cons. I don't have a deadline for this right now but everyone should have reviewed this by our meeting, so the deadline is by the meeting (yet to be scheduled). At our meeting we can review this and make the final recommendation to the Lead Workgroup. There are some additional questions that have been sent to the vendors and we should have these answers by mid-January. If you have any questions about this please let me know. I think the document is properly set to allow you all to edit but let me know asap so I can fix it. Thanks and happy new year! Heidi -- Helping member libraries provide the best possible service to the public. Heidi Oliversen Circulation Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz St. Madison, WI 53704 608-242-4711 holiversen(a)scls.info Report ILS problems online at or call the Help Desk: (608) 242-4710 / toll free (855) 583-2435

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