49 2017
January 2017. CLIC notified Innovative that they would not renew Millennium when the current subscription expired on June 30.
Dukelow asked the directors to select at least two staff members at each institution for Alma Certification Training.
The Executive Committee approved the Discovery Admin Committee’s recommendation that Primo discovery search should have a uniform name at all six Institutions, preferably a name including “CLIC.” The Board approved appointment of a System Rollout Task Force with the limited charge of selecting a uniform name to replace CLICnet and to develop a marketing plan to rollout the new discovery/search to students and faculty.
The Executive Committee began discussion of planning the future of CLIC and suggested that the Board hire a facilitator to begin the planning process in July or August 2017 after the migration is completed, with Dukelow’s Onsite Visits Report providing a starting point in discussions with the facilitator.
February 2017. In February, the CLIC Board recognized and thanked two groups for their “above and beyond” work on CLIC’s migration to Alma/Primo: (1) Heather Tompkins and the St. Kate’s local I-Team for their development of an Alma/Primo for Public Services list of resources, and (2) Mark Ehlert and the Cataloging Committee for their excellent work cleaning up bib data prior to the test extractions. Ex Libris delivered each university’s Alma test environment in February, and the Implementation Team began testing their Alma data.
Thirteen staff members were registered for Alma Certification training in April: Gene Kenney, Sandra Oslund, Amy Reinhold (Bethel); Jeanine Gatzke, Jon Neilson (Concordia); Frances Singh (Hamline), Nate Farley, Becky Schleicher (Northwestern); Amy Shaw, Heather Tompkins (St. Kate); Greg Argo, Meg Manahan (UST); and Paddy Satzer (UST Law).
The CLIC Board appointed Serena Giese (Bethel), Megan Johnson-Saylor (Concordia), Louann Terveer (Hamline), Jessica Moore (Northwestern), LeAnn Suchy (St. Kate), and Andrea Koeppe (UST) to the System Rollout Task Force. Working with 45Degrees/Mpls, the Task Force polled the CLIC community for new names to replace CLICnet, and 77 names were submitted. CLIC member library staff voted on the 15 names, selecting CLICsearch as the winner.
March 2017. Ex Libris conducted three-day onsite Alma training for CLIC member library staff at UST. After the onsite training, the Implementation Team’s weekly webinar training switched to focus on Primo training. Ex Libris delivered each university’s Primo test environment in March, and the Implementation Team began testing their Primo data.
The Dues Task Force developed a three-tiered formula for distributing system costs and the CLIC Board approved the dues formula at the March Board meeting.
Augsburg completed its migration from CLIC’s Millennium shared system to a standalone OCLC WMS system.
The CLIC Board approved signing the 2017-22 MNLINK Server Site Agreement.
April 2017. The System Rol