All the sites have used one or more Monday morning session to look at other Innovative OPACs and have been encouraged to feed views back to the OPAC group. At this stage, most of the OPAC group work is going into the actual enquiries offered along with scoping and post search limiting. The design and presentation will not be concentrated upon until after Testpac. The date of the first Circulation group meeting has been set for the 8th March. Helen Dalton has produced a paper with issues for discussion.
Some issues are policy decisions.
The parameter constraints for decision making are not all known at this stage. Policy decisions will referred to the Service Managers' Group. 22nd May. The Project manager and Helen need to visit to another Innovative library e.g. Sheffield to look at some of the issues involved. There is uncommitted money in this budget due to late signing of contract and money having to be spent by 31st July. MEC has approved using this for overtime.