Access Services Steering Committee

April 26, 1999

Carmen Blankinship, Susan Currie, Lori Micho, Deb Lamb-Deans,

Joel Zumoff was our invited guest

Registrar loads: LTD was scheduling the last student patron load of the semester for the first week in May. We discussed subsequent loads. There was some reason we have had problems with expired records of active patrons in the past if we load the "intends to register" too early in the summer.
Summer session: Incoming summer students do not get any information about library services when they register. Summer students do not get a picture id. they get a paper id, which they can use to obtain a library card if needed through Olin 101. Do we want to have a library person available on site for summer registration or are there other ways we could get library information to these students?
E-mail circ notices: 6.5 has the ability to send notices and/or bills out via email. There is no way that we could pick and choose who gets them, it is done by patron category. While each service unit could go into a file and chose the notices/bills they want to send for that day/week, there is only 1 address that these notices are sent from. Which then means there is only 1 address for users to respond to. Which would create an enormous amount of work for someone, going through and sorting the messages. It was the group's recommendation to not implement this feature in 6.5, but wait to investigate the email notice capabilities in the new LMS. DLD will write a memo to Ross with this recommendation.

Minutes recorded by Deb Lamb-Deans.

Rev. 5/10/99, mc