222A Hesburgh Library, 1:00 – 2:00 pm

Present: Kitty, Mary, Lisa, Justin, Amanda, Sarah, Tracey, Monica, Tom, Andy, Joe

Irish 1 Card Update

• May 2017 for production
• Looking at using Omnicard reader with Raspberry Pi to do web service lookup (CSN to ID)

Aleph Server Migration

• Last December moved Aleph to a virtual server.
• Now moving underlying virtual server software from Red Hat to VM
• About 1 hour downtime.
• Primo would still run, but not get updates
• Tracey will check on open hours during break

DocDel / InterMALC requests during break

• Staff will be out Dec. 24-Jan. 4
• Last year used banner to indicate that requests would not be processed.
• Will put banners on library home page, Primo headers, and Aleph OPAC

Courtesy Notices

• ND sends out courtesy notices 3 days before an item is due.
  • This applies to all item statuses. (If an item has a loan period of less than 3 days no notice is sent)
• Graduate Student Library Advisory Panel asked if MALC partners could also send notices.

Patron Purge / Scrubbing

• ND will scrub circ logger after 30 days, other tables the same night
• Will delete transactions from circ logger after 18 months.
• Patron record purge
  • Revised to catch more patrons
  • Modifying so it can be run on a schedule
• Will decide on patron statuses, how long expired, and time frame next meeting.