[Evergreen-reports] Ideas for the Future of the Reports Interest Group

[Cristina Hernandez Trotter]

Hi, Jessica,

It's great to hear from you. Just this weekend I was missing RIG and
wondering what I missed at this year's conference.

1) & 3) I can  definitely see going to quarterly meetings in IRC,
especially if we also have some supplemental meetings in Google Hangouts.

2) The idea of having each meeting focus on a central topic is a great
idea!   I agree that there has been a lot of repetition in our IRC
discussions. It would be great to loosen the grip that a standard agenda
can have (e.g."old business" then "new business").  How old does old
business have to be before it is removed from the agenda, right?

Nevertheless, we should retain some loose structure for the meetings, such
as  introductions followed by the main discussion topic, followed by a few
minutes for attendees to make announcements or suggest new ideas for future
meetings or activities.

4) It would be great to see how different systems are extracting data from
Evergreen. However, since we have both system administrators and end-users
participating in these meetings, I would recommend that we try to focus on
the staff client at least every other meeting.

I look forward to reading the comments you are compiling from the
conference.

Thanks for everything, Jessica!
jventuro++

Happy Spring!
Cristina

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Cristina Hernandez Trotter

Head of Reference Dept. and Heritage Center

Oconee Regional Library System

801 Bellevue Ave.

Dublin, GA 31021

478-272-5710 (phone)

478-272-0524 (fax)

www.ocrl.org





On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Elisabeth Keppler <keppleep at forsyth.cc>wrote:

> Ditto what Geoff said.  I'm usually an agenda person, but they don't
> really work in IRC.  The idea of topic-specific meetings makes a lot of
> sense.  If we're addressing just one subject, we're more likely to actually
> accomplish something.  (Good topic suggestions, by the way.)  Since my
> county has now gone Google-crazy, I suppose it's time to learn Google
> Hangouts.  Just have to convince them to buy me a web cam and microphone.
>
> I'd be interested to hear from people who use SQL and third-party tools,
> but my consortium controls access to the database so the reporter is the
> only thing I can use.  A meeting/hangout on something else wouldn't be as
> useful for me.
>
> One quick question: do developers participate in RIG meetings?  They might
> have insights on upcoming features that we'd like to hear about.
>
> Thanks,
> Lise
>
>
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> Lise Keppler
> Forsyth County Public Library
> 660 W 5th St
> Winston Salem NC 27101
> 336-703-3070
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