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- | Regional Chair Meeting | + | ===== Conference Chairs |
- | February 19, 2014 - 2:30 p.m EDT, 1:30 CDT, 12:30 MDT, 11:30 PDT. | + | Recorded by: Toni Harrell\\ |
- | NLS staff present: | + | \\ |
- | Chairs: | + | **NLS Staff Present:**\\ |
- | Recorded by: Toni Harrell | + | |
- | NLS updates: | + | **Karen Keninger**, Director\\ |
- | From NLS: | + | **Michael Martys**, Automation Officer\\ |
- | MaryBeth shared that a preliminary agenda for the NLS conference has been posted, with final agenda being worked on now. All are encouraged to attend the pre-conference. There will be two sessions – Magazine circulation and distribution - even those that don’t have recording programs can learn about distribution, | + | **Vickie Collins**, Head, Network Services Section\\ |
- | Karen is excited to see that three locally produced books are now on BARD. It is good that progress in being made and things are moving forward. | + | **Jane Caulton**, Head, Publications and Media Section\\ |
- | Vickie reminded everyone the annual survey is due February 28. If information becomes available after the window closes, the information can be emailed to the network consultants. | + | **Pamela Davenport**, |
- | An operation alert went out today announcing the availability of chrome labels for players. | + | **MaryBeth Wise**, Network Consultant\\ |
- | Conference chairs question and issues | + | \\ |
- | ** West. Question: There have been questions about BARD passwords being case sensitive. | + | **Network |
- | NLS answer: M. Martys – The intent is to be case insensitive, | + | |
- | ** West. Question: | + | **Debbi MacLeod**, Western Conference\\ |
- | NLS answer: The person that would have those answers is not here, but NLS will have an answer to share at next week’s conference call. | + | **Craig Hayward**, Southern Conference\\ |
- | ** Midlands | + | **Toni Harrell**, Midlands Conference (for Sharon Ruda)\\ |
- | NLS answer: No announcement has gone out yet. This can be a topic for next week’s call as well, when there are answers about available quantities. | + | **Marilyn Stevenson**, Northern Conference (for Adam Szczepaniak)\\ |
- | ** South follow-up: Patrons have been encouraged to buy their own cartridges and the necessary cables. | + | \\ |
- | NLS answer: No. Finding the commercial USB cable was problematic so NLS decided to provide them. | + | |
- | **West. Debbi provided feedback on the new TBT format – patrons love it. Marilyn reported the same type of response. | + | **From NLS:**\\ |
- | NLS answer: That is good to hear. | + | |
- | **South. Question: What is the turn-a-round time once catalog information is submitted? | + | MaryBeth shared that a preliminary agenda for the NLS conference has been posted, with final agenda being worked on now. All are encouraged to attend the pre-conference. There will be two sessions – Magazine circulation and distribution - even those that don’t have recording programs can learn about distribution, |
- | NLS answer: The person that could answer that is not in the room today. | + | |
- | **South. Question: Since at one time it was mentioned, is there an update or plans to broaden NLS services? | + | Karen is excited to see that three locally produced books are now on BARD. It is good that progress in being made and things are moving forward. |
+ | Vickie reminded everyone the annual survey is due February 28. If information becomes available after the window closes, the information can be emailed to the network consultants.\\ | ||
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+ | An operation alert went out today announcing the availability of chrome labels for players. There is a fairly small window for ordering those as well – March 3rd | ||
+ | Conference chairs question and issues.\\ | ||
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+ | **West Question:** There have been questions about BARD passwords being case sensitive. Has that changed?\\ | ||
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+ | **NLS Answer:** M. Martys – The intent is to be case insensitive, | ||
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+ | **West Question:** With the availability of the USB cable for cartridges, is there any guidance on the distribution of those?\\ | ||
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+ | **NLS Answer:** The person that would have those answers is not here, but NLS will have an answer to share at next week’s conference call.\\ | ||
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+ | **Midlands | ||
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+ | **NLS Answer:** No announcement has gone out yet. This can be a topic for next week’s call as well, when there are answers about available quantities.\\ | ||
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+ | **South | ||
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+ | **NLS Answer:** No. Finding the commercial USB cable was problematic so NLS decided to provide them.\\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **West:** Debbi provided feedback on the new TBT format – patrons love it. Marilyn reported the same type of response.\\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **NLS Answer:** That is good to hear.\\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **South Question:** What is the turn-a-round time once catalog information is submitted?\\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **NLS Answer:** The person that could answer that is not in the room today. NLS will get back to us on that.\\ | ||
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+ | **South Question:** Since at one time it was mentioned, is there an update or plans to broaden NLS services?\\ | ||
- | NLS answer: No news at this point. | + | **NLS Answer:** No news at this point.\\ |
- | **Midlands. Question: How is recall working for NLS? Are they getting the expected amounts from the network? | + | |
- | NLS answer: Things seem to be going well. NLS looks at it more from an annual perspective, | + | |
+ | **Midlands Question:** How is recall working for NLS? Are they getting the expected amounts from the network? - asking because we have fallen behind internal expectations these past few months toward meeting this year’s goal.\\ | ||
+ | **NLS Answer:** Things seem to be going well. NLS looks at it more from an annual perspective, |