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April 22, 2015

NLS staff present: Vickie Collins, Richard Smith, Paula Bamaini, Joel Phillips, Pam Davenport, Meredith Beckwith

Chairs: Sharon Ruda (Midlands) - absent, Marilyn Stevenson for Adam Szczepaniak (Northern), Craig Hayward (Southern) - absent, Debbi MacLeod (Western)

Recorded by: Debbi MacLeod

From NLS:

12 people met last week for the NLS Futures meeting. Discussed was what will NLS, network libraries & their administrative agencies look like in 5-10 years. 4 scribes were tasked with taking notes and generated 22 pages which will be part of the NLS update at the upcoming regional meetings.

About half of the order, 200,000, of the 4 GB peach cartridges arrived in April and are starting to be shipped out. These will arrive in boxes of 400 not 300 and NLS will adjust the quantities accordingly. More details in the call next week. The second shipment of cartridges is expected in August.

An update to the write protection software is coming soon. Expect to see an operations alert perhaps next week.

Shipments for the peach cartridges brought to light how out of date the network database currently is. PLEASE update your library information in the NLS database.

Conference chairs question and issues:

West Question: Can you give us an update on PIMMS?

NLS answer: In working with Web/READS libraries an issue over security arose. This has been addressed and the work continues. The last Web/READS overseas library is being converted and then NLS will move forward with other network libraries.

West Question: When will digital container labels be available from Multistate Center?

NLS answer: NLS did not know they were out of stock. A large order is being delivered to the recycling contractor so NLS can make sure that the Multistate Center has enough. They will check.

West Question: When will boxes for recall be available from Multistate Center?

NLS answer: NLS will check.

Request from NLS – Libraries are encouraged to submit questions before the monthly teleconference so that NLS can have the right people present to answer the questions. Questions can be submitted to the conference chairs, the network consultant, or directly to Richard Smith.

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