Director S Report

Document 12-27

Director’s Report April / May 2012

Symphony We continue to support the libraries involved in inventory projects. We are updating reciprocal borrowing procedures and working on how to implement changes to how lost item bill payments are handled.

We have made extensive changes to Edison’s circ map to address issues with how their user profile EPSENIOR is handled. We continue to move more libraries over to their own user profiles – only 5 libraries continue to use the generic user profiles.

SirsiDynix now has a text messaging capability within Symphony 3.4.1 (we are on 3.4.0). We plan to upgrade later this year and I would like to talk with the membership at the June meeting about whether or not we want to add this service.

I am growing increasingly concerned about the failure to follow LMxAC guidelines when creating call numbers for multiple volumes, parts and series. Placing holds on these items has become more and more frustrating for patrons. Attached is an example of how confusing it can be to place a hold on such an item. I would like to discuss this issue with the Board at the May meeting.

SAM We have completed the upgrade to SAM 9.0. Several libraries developed issues after the upgrades were completed. Most of the issues have been resolved although there remains an outstanding problem with WinSelect and SAM at Old Bridge. A new issue was recently reported at Plainfield that Comprise is working on resolving.

SmartPay We’ve provided Comprise with all the configuration data for SmartPay and they are writing our custom reports. I hope we will be able to test it in the next four weeks or so.

Mobile Project Mei and I are currently testing the alpha version of our app. Once we feel it is ready for a more robust test we will look for each library to test as well. Document 12-27

Activity Report In March and April we made 27 troubleshooting visits to 16 member libraries. Other measures of activity include:

System statistics March April

New Items Added 21521 20651 Bib Records Added by LMxAC 712 471 New Bib Records Added 6096 5828 New User Records Added 5672 3445 Brief Record Upgraded to full MARC 206 217 Duplicate records merged 418 331 API reports and transactions 11 14 Authority Records Added 123 62 Authority Records Modified 178 51

Meetings I have participated in the following meetings

Rutgers Collection Development Class Apr 3 Public Policy Committee Apr 5 Boopsie Conference Call Apr 10 Red Bank History Room Dedication Apr 14 NJLA Board Apr 17 LMx Meeting Apr 20 eLibraryNJ Meeting Apr 27 NFF Webinar May 3 Public Policy Committee May 4 Intellectual Freedom Committee May 4 LMx Unconference May 11 Delivery Task Force Conference Call May 14 NJLA Board May 15 Urban Libraries Meeting May 18 LibraryLinkNJ May 22

Respectfully Submitted,

Eileen M. Palmer Executive Director