SWAN Member’s Quarterly Meeting June 7, 2012
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SWAN Member’s Quarterly Meeting
June 7, 2012
SWAN Director’s Report
Projects completed March 2012 – May 2012
Plans for the next three months IUG Conference Evergreen Conference Heartland consortia merger update PrairieCat migration update
Completed! March- May 2012
Enabled feature for PIN reset via email Acquisitions Two-day Workshop
SWAN Member Services Innovative Trainer on-site, hands on lab
Quick Click pilot: automation of brief records Facilitated by Tony Siciliano & Application
Coordinator Baker & Taylor: Elmwood Pk & Oak Pk Brodart: Oak Lawn
Projects Completed: “Get Smart” Workshops
Continuing education for circulation
Led by circulation staff “mentors”
Panel discussions The dates are listed
in L2 under the tags “get smart” and are open for registration:
http://www.librarylearning.info/tags/?GET+SMART
1. The A Team: At the front desk
2. Mythbusters: Behind the scenes
3. Let's Make a Deal: Customer Service
4. One Step Beyond: How does SWAN do that?
Get Smart SWAN “MythBusters” Video created by
mentors in the Get Smart Program
Behind the scenes at SWAN, delivery
June 6th: Downers June 11th:
Homewood Look on L2 “GET
SMART”
Project Completed: Encore Upgrade
ENCORE 4.1 UPGRADE
COBALT Cleaner 2 columns
instead of 3
“Items available” improved
Project Completed: Encore Upgrade
ENCORE 4.1 UPGRADE
Advanced Search Sets SWAN up for
“consortia enhancements”
Synergy & Instances
Coming Soon: New WebPAC Look!
Coming Soon: New WebPAC Look!
Coming Soon: New WebPAC Look!
SWAN Member Services will solicit feedback from SWAN membership
Running on “staging” area of our Production
Need to explore how barcode & PIN can be saved within browsers
SWAN will create video screencasts that you can use for patrons & staff
Note Above: Staged Test of My Account
Barcode is no longer “masked” allowing browser
forms to save BC# & PIN
Coming Soon: New Ticket System
For Membership: Create & View Existing Tickets for Your Library
FAQs too!
Coming Soon: New Ticket System
Synchronizes with L2
Same as your L2 account password
Will create tickets by email too
Coming Soon: New Members Website
Members Website Drupal L2 acct & passw sync
Mock up created by RAILS website consultant Bellcow
Next Steps SWAN staff input Member feedback Migrate content from
MLS website
Coming Soon
Millennium Print Template workshops (R2009B feature) June 13: Acquisitions June 22: Circulation Hands on in Burr Ridge training lab
JUNE 2012: YOUR SWAN STAFF
Setting up SWAN to have its employees Payroll service Insurance Retirement Health benefits Employee manual Policies (holidays,
sick time, etc) Deadline June 30th
SWAN Personnel/Finance Committee Jamie Bukovac Jeannie Dilger-Hill Rich Wolff
IUG 2012 Conference
Sierra 1 library live in March
Millennium Release “Next” (no date yet) “Card expiring soon”
notices “Remember me” for
patrons in OPAC Synergy Encore Reporter Decision Center Text Messaging
SWAN Preparing for the future: Data Clean-up (look for
memos via SWANCom) Meeting with vendors
about text messaging Working with
Innovative for CSDirect access
ILS server research: virtualize, virtualize, virtualize
Other Consortium News
PrairieCat go-live on Sierra set for July 5th
Pinnacle (Plainfield Public Library, Joliet Public Library, Fountaindale Public Library, White Oak Public Library, Shorewood-Troy Public Library, and the Lemont Public Library) set for June 16th
Illinois Heartland Library System (IHLS) has chosen “SHARE” as its name for merged 4 LLSAP
SWAN Password Change
Reminder: use the URL below http://204.120.131.105/director/
End of Executive Director report Look for this presentation here:
http://www.mls.lib.il.us/swan/governance.asp
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