OWWLAC Meeting, Tuesday, January 26, 2016

2:00pm at PLSHQ

2016 membership

January-December 2016 representation

Representative	Library	County	Represents Libraries
Beth List	Walworth	Wayne	NEW, ONT, PAL, SOD, WAL, WIL
Diana Thorn	Bristol & Bloomfield	Ontario	AHILL, BLO, BRI, GOR, PHE, RJ
Elly Dawson	Victor	Ontario	CAN, CS, GPL, HPL, MAC, VIC
Erin Robinson	Castile	Wyoming	BLI, CAS, PIK, SS, WADS, WYO
Lisa Gricius	Warsaw	Wyoming	ARC, ATT, NAP, NUN, PER, WAR
Rebecca Budinger	Avon	Livingston	AVO, CAL, DAN, LIM, LIV, MM
Tracy Whitney	Marion	Wayne	CLY, LYO, MAR, RC, ROS, WOL

Pop-up Library

Lauren will present a new philosophy re: popup library service.

Library Aware update

Lindsay is waiting for Library Aware/EBSCO support to create sub-units for all libraries, which will include their addresses and other information, before proceding with additional training. This process has been taking a while.

We did a brief run through the features of Library Aware promotions and also Next Reads newsletters.

Lisa Gricius pointed out that using Library Aware for print promotions can get very expensive with color printing. This is an important point to consider; possibly the emphasis should be on using it for electronic materials.

UPDATE: Libraries through Marion have been added. Lindsay will start working on training, and contacting libraries. (2/5/2016)

Mango languages

Stats:

• December 1 - 31 (access started December 17) - 49 total sessions
  • top uses by course - Spanish (Latin America) - 12; French - 8; Pirate - 7; German - 6; Spanish for Libraries - 5
• January 1 - 26 - 149 total sessions
  • top uses be course - Spanish (Latin America) - 42; French - 26; Italian - 19; Pirate - 11; Japanese - 9

Overall:

General discussion of Mango software (with a brief side track into MCLS subscriptions - appearently only Brighton Memorial Library subscribes, there is no system-wide subscription, yay, PLS!).

We would like to know if it is possible to know how many specific users are accessing given courses; for example, Spanish had 42 course uses this month, how many actual people are taking Spanish courses? This information is not currently available. Lindsay will ask.

Otherwise, feedback so far has been really positive.

Services and issues on the horizon?

Topics raised in previous meetings

• Credit card payments
  • Currently, it is not a PLS priority to implement system-wide online, credit card payments. Several libraries have implemented local credit processing options.
• Financial policies discussion group (9/22/2015)

Other?