Voyager Consortium Work Group
March 5, 2008
CPE,
Attending:
Charlene Davis, John Detwiler, KDLA
Todd King, EKU
Tari Keller, Kelly
Vickery, UK
Clara Logsdon, St.
Catharine
Enid Wohlstein, KYVL
Paul Fuller, Michael
Stapleton, KCTCS
Sheri Myers, NKU
Rose Davis, Nelda Sims,
WKU
Leonor Lopez, KSU
Alex Grigg, Lexmark
Shirley Ackerman, KHS
Linda Voyles, Robert
Mercer, Ex Libris
Stuart Johnston, Allen
Lynn, CPE
On the phone:
Mark Paul, Dave Jones U of L
Granuaille O'Flanagan,
Morehead
Aleeah McGinnis, MSU
Herman Collins, Ray
Hyatt, UK
Perry Bratcher, NKU
1. Update on Ex Libris
– Robert Mercer, President Ex Libris North
Robert Mercer presented on Ex Libris
- the company, product status, trends
The company:
Ex Libris is the world leader in
academic libraries with revenue of $70 million, 420 employees, 4000 customers
and 4500 institutions. 75% of employees are in development, service, support. Emphasis is on support and R&D;
support personnel in
Product status:
- Voyager Voyager 7 is on
scheduled for beta release February 2008, general release 2Q2008; vastly
improved WebVoyage.
- SFX SFX4 is in development.
- MetaLib Metalib v 4.2 release for 2Q2008.
MetaLib is becoming more integrated with Primo, a demo will be available on
June 2008.
- Verde Verde is now more integrated with SFX,
is setup to work with the Voyager ACQ module, works with SUSHI.
- Primo Primo v 1.0 released
May 2007. Additional open source web services on v 2 April 2008 to work with
most ILS, Open URL and Met Search.
Trends:
Dissociate backend and frontend.
Collaborative testing is central to
development and deployment.
Higher expectations - from
librarians towards their ILS providers and from endusers towards libraries -
want access to all kinds of information whenever and wherever, want to be able
to customize the format and the manner in which information is accessed.
Fast growing digital collections -
emerging issues of digital repositories, collecting and preserving in digital
formats.
Librarians are technically
sophisticated, attuned to Web 2.0.
Unified Resource Management (URM)
approach: open APIs, plug-ins, extensions.
2. Collaborative
Testing - Tari Keller
Tari participated in collaborative
testing of Voyager 7.0 at Ex Libris in
Concentrated on the OPAC and
Circulation module; a lot of process work, some bug-finding work, checking the
workflow.
It was good to meet face-to-face with Ex Libris developers,
support, and QA staff.
3. Update on Servers
– Enid Wohlstein
MOAs with
-
- U of L= Voyager
Issues: Disaster recovery: A draft of the new
Consortial Governance and Support MOA is expected by April 2008, created by the
Systems Subgroup from both hubsites as well as in consultation with both the
Portal and Voyager workgroups; Migration to new servers; Implementation of
MetaLib.
4. Portal Work Group
– Michael Stapleton
Waiting on hardware; discussions are
finalized and are getting ready to purchase.
Operating Systems to be installed -
at this point, Red Hat Linux 4.0
Enid Wohlstein - set the MetaLib
training for mid-June; dependent on ordering the hardware in the next week.
5. Other Business
Enid
Wohlstein informed the group that
Enid Wohlstein talked about creating
a Virtual Library Users Group Conference - perhaps merge KSUG and KVUG,
minimize number of groups. Have a
VLUG conference (two days) once a year. Tari Keller noted that KSUG has been
the
Rose Davis, chair of KVUG suggested
that in the future there should be a single group to deal with all Ex Libris
issues. Voyager and MetaLib are in
the agenda for KVUG meeting in June 2008 at WKU,
Tari Keller asked should we meet in
6. Meeting dates for
2008
Thursdays: June 5 at CPE in
Submitted,
Leonor
Lopez, KSU