Chairs of Function Committee
Co-chairs: Alea Henle & Stan Brown
Membership: Chairs of function committees listed below and regional directors Krista McDonald and John Burke.
Anticipated term of activity: pre-Implementation to post-Implementation
Charge (not necessarily in this order):
- Oversee other committees to encourage timely completion of training and tasks
- Coordinate completion of migration and configuration forms
- Resolve conflicts/disputes between other committees
- Review progress and identify areas for activity/improvement
- Schedule general training sessions
- Collate Vanguard testing evaluations
- Collect recommendations and share with OhioLINK libraries (or at minimum ensure central documentation of function committee recommendations for OhioLINK)
- Make recommendations for overall configuration and any changes in practice (ex., reduction in number of loan periods) for management approval
- Monitor schedule and timing and ensure compliance with Ex Libris-mandated halts of activity
Acquisitions Working Group
Chair: Cara Calabrese
Members: Pam Hopkins, Rachel Makarowski, Elizabeth Staarmann, Kay Russell, Jen Smith, Rich Wisneski, Katie Gibson, Samantha Young (Hamilton)
Anticipated term of activity: kickoff to post-implementation
Charge:
- Review relevant training materials
- Recommend Vanguard configuration settings
- Collaborate on preparation of data for extraction and extraction
- Conduct Vanguard testing and make recommendations for OhioLINK libraries and for alterations for official migration configuration
- Decide whether to recommend full migration of acquisitions or re-creation post-migration (if the latter, recommend parameters of manual creation)
- Determine and develop workflows and documentation
- Oversee post-migration cleanup or re-creation of data
Analytics Working Group
Chair: Alea Henle
Members: Rich Wisneski, Cara Calabrese, Lissa Martin, Rob Withers, Abi Morgan, Brea McQueen (Hamilton) , John Burke
Anticipated term of activity: sandbox availability to sometime post-implementation
Charge:
- Review relevant training materials
- Determine recommended statistics for inclusion (for example, usage statistics) and preferred means of upload
- Determine and develop preferred templates / preformatted reports
- Identify means to encourage / support analytics experts
- Conduct Vanguard testing and make recommendations for OhioLINK libraries
Data Integrations Working Group
Co-Chairs: Rich Wisneski & Stan Brown
Members: Membership to be determined
Anticipated term of activity: kickoff to post-implementation
Charge:
- Work with other committees to ensure integration with relevant software (Banner/WorkDay, GOBI, Connexion, etc.) and integration with other Ex Libris products connecting to different resources (ex. Rapido & ILLiad)
Digital/Digitization Working Group
Co-chairs: Alia Levar Wegner and Rob Withers
Members: Carla Myers, Mary Hubbard, Mark Shores (Hamilton), John Burke, Pam Lipscomb
Anticipated term of activity: kickoff to post-implementation (if recommend using)
Charge:
- Review relevant training materials
- Evaluate digital and digitization features and recommend whether or not to use
- IF determination not to use provide an explanation of why
- IF determination to use
- Recommend Vanguard configuration settings
- Conduct Vanguard testing and make recommendations for OhioLINK libraries
- Recommend alterations to configuration for full implementation
Discovery Working Group
Co-chairs: Rich Wisneski and Jerry Yarnetsky
Members: Krista McDonald, John Burke, Alia Levar Wegner, Candace Pine, Andy Revelle, Mark Dahlquist
Anticipated term of activity: immediately to post-implementation (then transition to on-going monitor/management group)
Charge:
- Determine preferred language / layout options for public interface
- Review relevant training materials
- Recommend Vanguard configuration settings
- Conduct Vanguard testing and make recommendations for OhioLINK libraries and for alterations for official migration configuration
- Determine and develop workflows and documentation
- Transition to on-going/regular re-evaluation and tweaking of public interface post-migration
E-Resources and Resource Management (Cataloging, Metadata) Working Groups
Chair: Rich Wisneski
Members: Cara Calabrese, Pam Hopkins, Elizabeth Staarmann, Pam Hopkins, Barry Zaslow, Candace Pine, Alia Wegner, and Samantha Young (Hamilton)
Anticipated term of activity: kickoff to post-implementation
Charge:
- Review relevant training materials
- Recommend Vanguard configuration settings
- Conduct Vanguard testing and make recommendations for OhioLINK libraries and for alterations for official migration configuration
- Establish best practices for statistics incorporation
- Determine and develop workflows and documentation
- Determine and facilitate any necessary integrations with external products (ex. Connexion)
Fulfillment Working Group
Chair: Rob Withers
Members: Dana Carlsen, Jennifer Hicks, Kris Abney, Kristen Adams, Pam Lipscomb, Sam Shoup, Rich Wisneski, and Alea Henle.
Anticipated term of activity: kickoff to post-implementation
Charge:
- Review relevant training materials
- Recommend Vanguard configuration settings
- Conduct Vanguard testing and make recommendations for OhioLINK libraries and for alterations for official migration configuration
- Determine and develop workflows and documentation
InterLibrary Loan / Resource Sharing subgroup
Charge:
- Review relevant training materials
- Recommend Vanguard configuration settings
- Conduct Vanguard testing and make recommendations for OhioLINK libraries and for alterations for official migration configuration
- Determine and develop workflows and documentation
- Determine and facilitate any necessary integrations with external products (ex. ILLiad)