2024-01-19 Focus Group Meeting notes

 Date

Jan 19, 2024

 Participants

  • @Adam Murray

  • Bethany Lafferty; Susan Kiley

 Discussion topics

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Notes

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eY2sGi8RrcFMdTa3Z8wiRRBtKsC3IwhzVR-oPbYiBg0/edit?usp=sharing

Expense Structure

  • do the three cost centers of support and innovation, licensing, and infrastructure make sense to you?

  • does the description of what is included in each cost center seem appropriate?

    • clarified that support system licensing was for Help Desk, Knowledge Base, etc.

  • Are there any cost centers, or types of expenses that you don’t see reflected in the slide?

  • Are there changes in where any type of expense should be located between the cost centers?

Service Portfolios

  • Does the concept of service portfolios make sense to you?

  • Voting membership has been defined as a set of services, benefits, and memberships that are only available through full Marmot membership. Is there anything in this list that you think doesn’t belong? Anything that should be included but isn’t?

    • Likes the concept of insituttional membership in Reforma

  • Do you have any reservations about the more formal establishment of an Associate Membership fee, or the definition of associate membership as having a la carte access to certain Marmot services?

    • doesn’t think it seems unfair; it makes sense to become a voting member if you want access to the voting member portfolio

  • Do you have any thoughts, concerns, revisions to suggest for the service portfolios?

    • Resource sharing

      • would there be a requirement that libraries contributing to the digital archive to contribute on a regular basis. would there be an increased expectation that contribution would contribute?

    • IT Services

    • Statistics & assessment services

      • Director really likes the eResource statistics concep

    • Preservation services

    • Consultations and special projects

    • Computer equipment acquisitions

Data Types discussion

  • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLzx4rVVX2ahejeeS-kvjaHHPcflG008x8tStb4WEFAoFLHQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ckr9Zbw-pe56tR_f1giHyUS7pO-1ZSx6XZkAPGA8xLw/edit?usp=sharing

  • What stands out to you in the straw poll results?

  • Why did the highest ranked item get selected?

    • Registered card holders is significantly less than population. Resident card holders is so low compared to population of the city

    • Resort towns have higher registered users than population

    • Library has so many part-time staff, and uses only one login for Sierra. But would like to have more logins so there is greater accountability

  • Why did the lowest ranked items get ranked that way?

    • Collection expenditures per population: collection is small comparatively to other libraries in members

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  • Are there other data elements you can think of that might be more appropriate?

  • Are there data elements that might be appropriate only for specific service portfolios? What are they?

    • likes the idea that different data elements could be used for sizing different service portfolios

Fee types discussion

  • Is there any benefit to using pricing or sizing tiers?

    • tiers would have to be based on breaks in the data

    • would probably prefer the tier, because it leaves room for the library to fluctuate their spending without having immediate impact on cost. Likewise, if reducing spending it doesn’t short Marmot unnecessarily.

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  • survey link

Next steps

  • February: Synthesize focus group data

  • February/Spring: Identify most preferred types of data for sizing; build out more detailed models using this type of data for different types and sizes of library

  • June: Presentation at Council for final round of feedback

  • Summer: Approval by Marmot Executive Board

  • September: Member notifications

  • January 2025: Effective date

 Action items

 Decisions