Endeavor Consortium Work Group Minutes

Present: Tari Keller, Nelda Sims, Keith Stevenson, Kelly Vickery, Margaret Foote, Todd King, Dave Block, Miko Pattie, Roberta Kirby, Gary Flanagan, Elsie Pritchard, Mark Paul, Aleeah McGinnis, Paul Fuller, Susan Brown, Rose Davis, Gerry Williams, Perry Bratcher, John Detwiler, David Runner, Cathy Reilander, Michael Stapleton, Clara Stethen.

Present from Endeavor: Anita Reeb, Linda Voyles, Michele Arms.

Update from Endeavor: Anita presented to the group a brief overview of ENCompass and LinkfinderPlus; she noted that a similar overview would be given at the KVUG meeting to be held at EKU on May 31. Endeavor, through its "Operation Leapfrog," is offering a special discount of 15% to Voyager customers for the ENCompasss for Resource Access or LinkfinderPlus through June 30, 2002.

Release schedules: The gold candidate for Voyager release 2001.1 is in beta testing for Sun Solaris. After its release later this month, Endeavor will begin its beta test of the same release for the AIX platform. Features of the new release, including MyOPAC, will be described more fully at the KVUG meeting. Release 2001.2 will upgrade circulation tasks. The next release is the Unicode Phase II Release. Following the Unicode release will come a release enhancing universal borrowing and Z39.50. ENCompass release 2.0 is in beta testing. LinkfinderPlus on the AIX platform will be beta tested in late June; EKU is one of the beta test sites. ALA Endeavor events will include demonstrations of Releases 2001.1 and 2001.2.

Endeavor Support Web: Michele Arms, now customer liaison for Endeavor, gave the group a quick tour of Endeavor's revamped SupportWeb pages. Features include the knowledge base, customer support, products, documentation (including the user guides for each Voyager module), services, and other information of value to customers. Endeavor is in the process of indexing SupportWeb.

Scheduling Upgrade: Keith stated that the 2001.1 release will not be difficult to load. All is needed is a release date. Release 2001.1 for Sun Solaris is scheduled for release on June 10; the release date of 2001.1 for AIX is "later this summer." The group discussed several issues concerning the release. Could each library upgrade on its own schedule? If this takes place, there would be no continuous OPAC. Should the upgrade take place when school is in session? The group agreed that would not be a good idea. Keith mentioned that out of the box the MyOPAC featured is not on; mention was also made that presently there is plenty of server room for MyOPAC. Tari asked the group if we should all go together on the upgrade. The group agreed that would be the best route to take as long as there is a continuous OPAC. A date for the upgrade can be determined either through an email conversation or at the next group meeting in September.

Service Level Agreement: The group reviewed the Service Level Agreement between Endeavor/Voyager Library Management System and KYVL/CPE. The Agreement is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2002; the group is to determine changes as needed before the Agreement is renewed for up to three additional years. Proposed changes include the following:

Clean up name changes (e.g., DIS is now GOT) (Discussion on this point led to a suggestion that GOT meet with ECWG at the group's next meeting)
Make list of CPE institutions more generic.
Change Voyager to Endeavor Inc products concerning the hub servers.
IIB6: Change WebZ to Z39.50.
IIIA4: Omit. This is the same text as IVA3.
IIIA6: Change "establish" to "maintain" for the consortium listserv.
IIIB1: Delete this statement. Implementation of the Endeavor/Voyager system by June 30, 2000 has been accomplished.
IVA3: Change "establish" to "monitor."
IVB2: Should we change this text to a generic term, such as "consortium participants" or "participating institutions" or "institutional parties?"
Should an appendix be included to list the parties in the agreement? Or should the list at the beginning be maintained after all?

At this point in the discussion a suggestion was made that a small group continue reviewing the Agreement and incorporate the changes on behalf of the entire group. Tari, Keith, and Susan agreed to continue the review, and seek suggestions as needed from consortium members and from GOT.

Next meeting: The next meeting is scheduled for September 5, 2002.

Respectfully submitted by,
Margaret Foote

Last updated 6/11/02