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Present:

    Edward Iglesias, CCSU

    Norm Ferriere, CCSU

    Debbie Herman, CCSU

    Bruce Johnston, ECSU

    Brian Kennison, WCSU

    Veronica Kenausis, WCSU (recording)

Introductions

Death of Fred

    The server called fred.ccsu.edu/mylibrary.ccsu.edu died.  A replacement is
    being handled by IT and most functions are being migrated to the new
    server. The biggest impact was that the electronic journal OPAC links being
    redirected through fred were broken.  Debbie worked with Yelena to remove
    them from the catalog.  The thesis repository is being rebuilt also.
   Licenses

Innovative

    Licenses

        Edward asked all the campuses if we thought we had enough III licenses; CCSU
people are often getting "all ports in use" messages.  All the other
campuses seem to have enough licenses.  Edward pointed out that we each have a
set of licenses called c_www, or e_www, etc. that are not being used.  All
agreed that he could try to move some of those licenses into staff licenses
and see if that alleviates the problem.

Upgrade

    Innovative Server

        The system office is moving the software to a new Linux box and they would
also like to move us up to the most recent version of III; we discussed
when would be a good time to also upgrade to Release 2005.  A couple of
problems were brought up:

        * With the 2005 release, both acquisitions and serials will be completely
moved to the Millennium environment, therefore anyone still using the
telnet client will need to be re-trained.

        * Even for the functions that still work under the character based
environment, telnet cannot be used and people will have to move to
putty or ssh client.

        It was decided that we would take the next two weeks to alert all our
affected people and get them to try the Millennium environment and
prepare a list of all the functions that do not work or do not work
well.  We will make a decision on upgrading after we have that
information.

    Future Plans

      We discussed how to work together and move forward with collaborative
projects. We agreed that this is a CONSULS group, and not solely a III
group.  Several possible common projects were discussed, and we decided to
focus on data structures to begin.  We hope to learn from each other and
share expertise without placing undue burden on any one member or campus.

    Duties & responsibilities

      Norm asked if all the patron loads and updates were working for everyone;
everything is working well we thank Norm for his great work while the CCSU
systems position was open.
Meetings

    We decided that meeting approximately twice a semester face-to-face would
be sufficient, with plenty of virtual meeting in between.  Brian offered to
set up a wiki and a weblog so everyone could contribute.
Projects

Some possible future consortial projects/needs include:

    EDIFACT (III)

    !OpenURL

    Training issues

    Scopes, SIP2 quotes (III)


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