Resource Sharing Workflows Work Group

April 3, 2025, 1 pm

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Meeting Documents: https://www.scls.info/committees/resource-sharing-workgroup

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1. Call to Order

2. Approval of previous meeting minutes: 2/6/2025

3. Action Items

4. Discussion

a. Review sorter RFI document

b. Review draft of questions to ask library systems with a central sorter.

c. Discuss questions and/or site visits to library systems with central sorters (especially consortia)

d. Discuss potential central sorters for site visits

i. Racine/PLLS, Wisconsin  (Lyngsoe) – Racine uses for their library during the day, PLLS uses for sorting their system materials at night; prepping for the next day delivery.

ii. Hennepin County, Minnesota (Tech Logic)

iii. San Diego County, California (Lyngsoe)

iv. Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio (Lyngsoe)

v. Illinois Heartland Library System: Projected installation of three hub units in April, May and June of 2025. Looking for name of vendor they selected. Polaris is their ILS software..  Link to AMH News webpage.

e. Next steps for workgroup

5. Parking lot

a. Post-It note study (Tim Drexler)

b. Transit slip pilot (for transit only and/or transit/hold slip)

i. Discuss potential costs differences between using Post-it notes and receipt paper.

c. No Post-It note study

6. Plan for Next meeting: May 1, 2025

7. Adjournment

For more information about the Resource Sharing Workflows Work Group, contact Vicki Teal Lovely

Resource Sharing Workflows Work Group/Agenda/04-2025