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Endeavor Reporting Working Group
Minutes of the 1/21/00 meeting

Attending: Amy Blumenthal, Karen Calhoun, Susan Currie, Michelle Paolillo, Lydia Pettis, John Saylor, Adam Smith, Ed Weissman, Linda Westlake, Scott Wicks, Bill Kara (recorder)

1. Karen reminded the committee that the 99.1 updates need to be interfiled in the old manuals and that there are new Entity Relationship diagrams in the update package.
2. Karen welcomed Michelle Paolillo and Adam Smith to the committee. Michelle and Adam will be be trainers for the reports and will attend the weekly working group meetings.
3. John S., Linda W. and Scott attended the 1/21 meeting of CDExec to discuss issues related to developing a fund structure.
4. Linda W. formed a group that will look at fund accounting/workflow issues as they differ for the endowed and statutory units. There'll be representatives from each of the units that have a separate budget office handling finances, including the endowed libraries accounting, Hotel, ILR, Vet, Geneva, and Mann. The first meeting of this group will be 2/7. Linda will also use this meeting to discuss the reporting needs of the different budget offices. Since the voucher requirements differ for the statutory libraries, Adam will probably work on the voucher for the statutory libraries and Lydia for the endowed libraries.
5. Scott and Bill are putting together an Endeavor Acquisitions Group. This group will look at a wide range of acquisitions/serials issues. Acquisitions reporting needs for day one and beyond will be discussed in this group.
6. Karen gave an update on MS Access training. There'll be two Introduction to Access sessions, one on 2/14 and the other on 3/21. Susan C. mentioned that the Access Services Working Group has already talked about the need for one person from each unit to become familiar with basic Endeavor reports and that many have already registered for one of these two sessions. Karen and Lydia mentioned that these would be just the start of ongoing Access training for CUL staff.
7. Karen, Lydia, Adam, and Michelle will be meeting during the week of 1/24 to discuss report training for the system.
8. CUL has some money set aside for custom report training. Karen asked if anyone knew Alan Manifold and whether he should be approached as a possible trainer for custom reporting. He has certainly established himself as a leader on Voyager-L for reporting issues. It was the general consensus of the group that he be contacted about possible training this spring, what he could cover in a workshop, and what his fees would be. Endeavor would also be contacted as to what they could cover in their custom report training. There would be no commitments to A. Manifold or Endeavor at this point, just gathering information. The working group would also need to discuss what it would like to have covered in custom report training.
9. Much of the meeting was given to an online overview/demonstration of the Endeavor reports by Lydia. Lydia prepared a hand-out on the pre-packaged reports and showed the committee the basics of the system and the interrelationship between the tables, queries, and reports. She showed some specific reports and asked committee members to look at reports in their functional areas to see what needs they met. For the next meeting Lydia will bring a printout of the programming behind the AUTHORITYDUPE-VW table to show the interrelationship of the information in Voyager needed to extract that information.
10. Also for the next meeting Karen asked the group to think about the "goals for this spring" for discussion at the 1/28 meeting.


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