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Final review of Discovery Layer recommendation report - due Friday, January 31 at noon
by Amy Gannaway 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

Thanks to those of you who responded to the Discovery Layer poll. I wrote up the last paragraph of the recommendation report based on those numbers, which are Enterprise - 3 Vega - 1 Enterprise or Aspen - 1 Enterprise, Aspen, or Vega - 3 Based on the poll numbers and workgroup conversations, it does appear that overall Enterprise and Aspen are preferred by more people, although Vega would be acceptable as well. So I tried to say this in the last paragraph of the report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QCMNsr_u0KweJSFj3-DBCfIDVxDWXMLjW2LjjAp… Please look over the report and let me know if you think there should be any additional changes or clarifications by Friday, January 31 at noon. Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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Updated draft report and Discovery Layer recommendation poll due Tuesday, January 28
by Amy Gannaway 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

Hello! At the Workgroup meeting on January 13, the group decided to eliminate Bibliovation and Bibliocommons from consideration. That leaves three products: Aspen Discovery, Polaris Vega, SirsiDynix Enterprise. To determine a final recommendation, please vote for one or more of these products by Tuesday, January 28. Click here for the link to the poll<https://forms.gle/v7Pqx1DjtjxRVtVL9>. Also, I made some additional updates to the Discovery Layer Workgroup report<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QCMNsr_u0KweJSFj3-DBCfIDVxDWXMLjW2LjjAp…>. Please look over the updated report and let me know if you have any other changes. I still have one outstanding issue (in yellow) to follow up on and then after the poll is done I can add the recommendation at the end. The group can recommend more than one product, or can indicate that the group is split and that some people prefer one product over another. If you feel that any of the products would work and you don't have a preference, you can also indicate that on the poll. For the purposes of this poll, we are only dealing with the Discovery Layer. The recommendation should be based on the functionality of the Discovery Layer and not the overall system. Thank you, Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup Meeting - Tuesday, Jan. 14 3pm
by Amy Gannaway 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Hello! The next meeting for the ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup will be next Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 3pm. Here is the Zoom information: Topic: ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup meeting Time: Jan 14, 2025 03:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86502243346?pwd=b24hgTEwCWIkdG9qa1y3aVEn8G8xFc.1 Meeting ID: 865 0224 3346 Passcode: LY7sfnZd If you haven't already done so, please look over the draft of the Discovery Layer Workgroup Report<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QCMNsr_u0KweJSFj3-DBCfIDVxDWXMLjW2LjjAp…> 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. Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup draft and January meeting poll
by Amy Gannaway 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Hello! At our last meeting we talked about our impressions of the four Discovery Layers reviewed and I mentioned that the next step is create a preliminary recommendation report. I have created a draft of a 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#DL. Also, I have attached the notes from our last meeting. To move forward with the putting together the recommendation reports, there are a couple of tasks that I am asking you to do. Poll for January meeting I have created a poll to find a date for a January workgroup<https://rallly.co/invite/Ks4qmbNzsjsB> meeting. Please complete this poll by Tuesday, January 7, so I can schedule the meeting. Preliminary report Here is a draft of the Discovery Layer Workgroup Report<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QCMNsr_u0KweJSFj3-DBCfIDVxDWXMLjW2LjjAp…>. Each system has a pros and cons section. I have filled in some pros and cons based on the demos and discussions. Please review this draft and add your own pros and cons. I don't have a deadline for this right 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 outstanding questions that have been sent to the vendors and I expect to have these answers by mid-January. If you have any questions about this please let me know. Thanks and happy holidays! Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup meeting, Thursday, Nov. 14 11am
by Amy Gannaway 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Hello! The next ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup meeting will be Thursday, Nov. 14 at 11am. Here is the Zoom information for the meeting: Topic: ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup Time: Nov 14, 2024 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84100333211?pwd=7eXMDbMQWOXIEopabEEEEW1KEAsEbf.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84100333211?pwd%3D7e…> Meeting ID: 841 0033 3211 Passcode: pqTNT1jX At this meeting we will review the results from the demos and the follow-up, as well as compile questions and concerns. Thanks! Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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Poll for ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer Workgroup meeting November/December
by Amy Gannaway 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

Hello! I am working to schedule a meeting of the ILS Discovery Layer Workgroup in November or early December. I have created a poll to find a date and time. The link to the poll is here: https://rallly.co/invite/LR24xtF4BLLn. Please fill out the poll by next Friday, September 27. At this meeting we will review the results from the demos and the follow-up, as well as compile questions and concerns. Thank you! Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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Discovery Layer Aspen and Bibliocommons demo recordings and Checklist deadline Friday, September 20
by Amy Gannaway 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

I have posted both of the demo recordings for Aspen Discovery and Bibliocommons, as well as some follow-up links and documentation provided by the vendors. You can find this information here: https://www.scls.info/ils-evaluation-2024-2025#dldemo Also, please watch the demos if you did not attend live and complete the checklists by Friday, September 20. The links to the checklists are here: https://www.scls.info/ils-evaluation-discovery-layer-checklists. Here are the links to the Discovery Layer checklist demo response spreadsheets. I am not sure if I already shared these. Some of you asked about checking to see if you still needed to submit any checklists. DL1: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PEIfkAZ_Xi2CC_SwPcmexnBcj4g6jnrIV40… DL2: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-GVME1AjMb6FmdFiYE6jtMc30U5Cwcyz1Uu… DL3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YCSXuoOk1tEjYNnSwi2IW8H3q8VKR2L6pkL… DL4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wXmXBnUY4_gjzQR26ntmrNvw2eez_QSUNxU… DL5: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bYt2ueK-PdEo_3CTizWTAs01H13S1f4qXT1… DL6: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cg9DQxlrUCuraZ76p4Rp4pfN225DucGN1WN… _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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Written information from Bibliocommons and new Zoom link
by Amy Gannaway 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hi, Bibliocommons sent me a document this morning with some information. Also, we had to set up a new Zoom meeting in order to record, so here is the new Zoom link: https://bibliocommons.zoom.us/j/85832768192?pwd=ZjJhM6Y7NuO1cCcSRNp5PFI7WV6… Thanks, Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway (she/her) Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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Checklists for Aspen and Bibliocommons Discovery Layer demos
by Amy Gannaway 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hi, I sent out a separate email with the dates for the Aspen and Bibliocommons Discovery Layer demos. I wanted to touch base to let you know that the vendors have been provided with the same checklists that were provided to SirsiDynix and Polaris and they are supposed to follow the same checklists for the demo. Please do fill out the checklists for these Discovery Layers, in the same way that they were done for SirsiDynix and Polaris (by Friday, September 13). This is the page with the checklists and the deadline: https://www.scls.info/ils-evaluation-discovery-layer-checklists Thanks, Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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Bibliocommons Discovery Layer demo, Wednesday, September 4, 9am-10:30am AND Aspen Discovery Layer demo virtual demo, Thursday, August 29, 2-3:30pm (will be recorded)
by Amy Gannaway 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

Hello! You are receiving this because you are either on the ILS Evaluation Discovery Layer or Lead Workgroups and/or you registered for the SirsiDynix and Polaris Discovery Layer demos. We have scheduled the Bibliocommons Discovery Layer virtual demo for Wednesday, Sept. 4 from 9am-10:30am, in addition to the Aspen Discovery Layer demo already scheduled for Aug. 29. Please see below for the Zoom information for both demos: Aspen Discovery August 29, 2-3:30pm, virtual only (will be recorded) Click to join meeting<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8763049929?omn=82809762726> (Zoom) Meeting ID: 876 304 9929 Bibliocommons September 4, 9-10:30am, virtual only (will be recorded) Click to join meeting<https://bibliocommons.zoom.us/j/85157780445?pwd=26GVlwNyXCYaCJenJoDgAVZAoRN…> (Zoom) Meeting ID: 851 5778 0445 I have also posted the Zoom links on the ILS Evaluation web page<https://www.scls.info/ils-evaluation-2024-2025>. Thanks! Amy _____________ Amy Gannaway Technical Services Consultant South Central Library System 1650 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704 agannaway(a)scls.info 608-242-4712

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