[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen for Academics: need community feedback for December meeting

[Yamil Suarez]

Hello,

Just wanted to remind folks to put in their vote to pick the date for
the December Evergreen for academics meeting. The poll will close this
Friday the 4th at noon EST.

Thanks in advance,
Yamil

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to solicit some community feedback in preparation to try to have an
> Evergreen for Academics meeting sometime in December. Please forward this
> email to those in your institution that work in academic libraries or anyone
> that has overlapping interest in our topics.
>
> At the last Evergreen for Academics meeting we decided to ask the community
> feedback on three questions…
>
> 1) When should we meet in December?
>
> Please fill out this Doodle poll to pick a date and time to meet in December
> on IRC. I will close the poll on Friday, December 4 at non EST.  (Doodle
> polls only require that a valid email address is provided.)
>
> http://doodle.com/poll/px48748tkq2tud8v
>
> 2) We wanted to pick topics to focus on during future meetings, and more
> specifically what topic should we pick for the December meeting.
>
> During the October meeting there was a lot of interest in course reserves as
> the topic of the next meeting. I would suggest that we consider picking that
> as our meeting topic for December, since I was not able to plan a November
> meeting. Though feel free to suggest other topics to cover in December or
> for the next group meeting in 2016
>
> Topic suggestions: inventory functionality, improving in-house use
> functionality, course reserves, patron loading, exporting citations in the
> catalog, authorities
>
> 3) We also wanted feedback on how often we should meet going forward. Some
> folks suggested quarterly meeting. Though since we might start picking
> specific topics to cover at teach meeting, we might want to meet every month
> or every other month.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Yamil
>
> P.S. Here are the links with details form the October meeting...
>
> http://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2015/evergreen.2015-10-29-14.04.html
> - meeting minutes
>
> http://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2015/evergreen.2015-10-29-14.04.log.html
> - IRC log
>
> http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics - group
> wiki page
>
>
>