Title

More than a conference: How the IUG can help you!

Presenter

Joe Reimers

Institution

University of Notre Dame

Description

This session is intended to provide an overview of the assorted resources the IUG makes available to staff at IUG member libraries, including the mail list and website resources.  It will pay particular attention to the new website design and will likely discuss the Clearinghouse in some detail. 

Title

Demystifying license mapping: ERM and the promise of ONIX-PL
[PDF]

Presenters

Deberah England and Christine Stamison

Institution

Wright State University and Swets

Description

With the advent of electronic resources, libraries are faced with a perplexing, prolonged licensing workflow. Oftentimes license terms are not explicit and left open to interpretation.  How does one know what the publisher intended?  Moreover, the task of tracking the license data, mapping it to systems such as ERM and providing end users with key license terms has been an arduous, painstaking process.  The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and international standards organization, EDItEUR, have developed ONIX-PL, a new standard for license expression. ONIX-PL puts license terms in machine-readable format that can be downloaded from a publisher or subscription agent’s website and then uploaded into an ERM license record.  Learn how ONIX-PL works and what it can do for you.  This program will be of interest to those working with licenses and e-resources in any type of library.

Title

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Load profilers

Presenter

Carrie Preston

Institution

Ohio University

Description

Load profiling gives you greater control and significant labor savings when adding records of any type to your system. If you have had Innovative's load profile training, or are just curious about it, come join this Birds of a Feather conversation.

Title

HANDS ON!: An introduction to Millennium’s Web Management Reports
[PowerPoint Slides]

Presenter

Ben Kline

Institution

University of Cincinnati

Description

This basic introductory session on using Millennium’s Web Management Reports function will cover an introduction to the interface of both versions, how to generate basic circulation and collection reports in both versions, creative employment of the various available parameters, and other WMR uses. The session will also discuss timelines for data retrieval and limits on certain available reports. Live reports will be created and discussed. A slide show and instructional handouts will be available.

Title

Best practices and user testing for resource record and databases-by-subject page design in the Millennium ERM

Presenter

Amy Fry

Institution

Bowling Green State University

Description

The speaker will describe how Bowling Green State University is using the Millennium ERM, along with best practices for web design and usability testing, to enhance its users’ experiences finding, choosing and connecting to research databases. She will show how other, local implementations of the Millennium ERM demonstrate libraries’ approaches to resource record and subject list design, and how this is informed by best practices in web design. This program will also describe BGSU’s current project to update resource records and subject lists (not revisited since the libraries’ original implementation of ERM in 2005), and describe plans for usability testing, slated to take place in January of 2010. The most important benefit of using III products is their ability to manage information that guides our end users into our complex library collections. This program will show how to create more useful and informative resource records and databases-by-subject lists generated by the Millennium ERM, and how the ERM can help users on the front end.

Experience level: beginner to advanced (this presentation will help libraries implementing ERM and already using it, and will discuss concepts of interest to both reference librarians and staff providing technical support)

Audience: focus is on academic libraries

Title

Print templates: Customizing printing in Millennium

Presenter

Carey Hunt

Institution

Innovative Interfaces

Description

From enabling to printing, start to finish. Learn how to enable, edit and maximize this long awaited feature in Millennium. Add logos to your spine labels, purchase orders, change fonts, add color, and more with Print Templates using Jasper iReport free software. No previous experience required, this session is for anyone who does printing in Millennium Circulation, Acquisitions, Serials and Cataloging, as we’ll be including new print jobs that will be available with R2009B.

Title

BIRDS OF A FEATHER:  SearchOhio roundtable

Presenter

Karen Perone

Institution

Rodman Public Library

Description

This will be an opportunity for any and all involved with the SearchOhio process to share and exchange ideas. Topics may include behind-the-scenes loan rule maintenance, proper packaging, what materials are loaned, and any other items of concern.

Title

HANDS ON!: Get more from your Web Management Reports: Customizing PTYPE and location checkout reports using Excel
[PDF]

Presenter

John Sterbenz

Institution

University of Michigan

Description

The default WMR checkout reports for PTYPEs and locations provide valuable information but require additional transcription and manipulation in order to get summarized reports or reports broken down by smaller time units.  In this hands-on session, learn how to use tools in Excel to create reports that will more appropriately meet your needs--reports and tables that can be created from monthly data without any additional transcription or calculation required!  Intermediate Excel skills highly recommended.  Handouts will be provided.

Title

RAPID-FIRE PRESENTATION: Book retirement using Millennium
[PowerPoint slides]

Presenter

Brian Kern

Institution

Allegheny College

Description

During the 2008-9 academic year, the Pelletier Library at Allegheny College discarded approximately 5000 titles.  The process was a joint venture between the library staff and the faculty.  This brief presentation discusses how the library used Millennium to track books selected for weeding, delete bibliographic and item records, and identify classic titles that should not be discarded.  This presentation is suitable for all experience levels.  The process described can be adapted to most library settings. 

Title

RAPID-FIRE PRESENTATION:  Examples of expanding code to meet local needs: Creating RSS feeds for new books and embedding Meebo in the “No Result Found” page

Presenter

Xi Chen

Institution

Oberlin College

Description

This 15 min. program will show how Oberlin College(OC) Library has implemented and expanded code that other IUG members developed to meet OC's local needs. Two examples are included :

The first one is expanding Lafayette College Library's code of creating RSS feeds for new acquisition based on Millennium's Creating List and Perl script. Our expanded code is to generate two tiers of subject granularity and keep OC library's original HTML structure. The second example demonstrates how OC library modified an existing JavaScript developed by Washington University Library to include Meebo widget in Webpac's No Result Found page. The function of Washington U's original script is to pass through keyword searching to a central catalog ( e.g. OhioLINK ). Now the expanded code not only serves the previous purpose but also brings a pre-coded Meebo into No Result Found page so that patrons can take advantage of this chat reference channel without leaving current page.

Appropriate for all levels with an intended audience of public service and web development librarians

Title

Using Web Management Reports to track circulation at local and consortium levels
[PowerPoint Slide Show]

Presenters

Lorna Newman and Ben Kline

Institution

University of Cincinnati

Description

Learn how to use the web management reports cross tab feature to determine which parts of your collection circulate to your branch libraries and throughout your consortium.

The cross tab reports allow libraries to analyze two sets of statistics for this purpose: local lending between campus or branch libraries and lending throughout a consortium, specifically OhioLINK in this case.

The presentation will cover the generation of the reports (web management report parameters, sorting of excel spreadsheets) and how the information can be used once shared.

There will be time for Q&A after the presentation.

Title

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Implementing the ERM
[PowerPoint Slides]

Presenters

Susan M. Banoun and Sean Crowe

Institution

University of Cincinnati

Description

University of Cincinnati Libraries installed the III ERM in November 2008 and we are now implementing the module. As more sites purchase and implement the III ERM module, a session to discuss and examine implementation would include: best practices, including new record structures, codes and specifications, standards, workflows, and use of the module for user and staff access and management of electronic resources. Topics for discussion could include local needs and practices and the implications for the OhioLINK Central Catalog will ensure as much as possible a consistent approach for user access across OhioLINK institutions.  This discussion is appropriate for newer ERM sites and users or those undergoing ERM implementation.  Those seeking further discussion on ERM and e-resources may consider attending the BOF session titled “CSI: E-Resources”.

Title

HANDS ON!: AutoIt for the Rest of Us
[PowerPoint Slides] [PDF File] [Script 1] [Script 2] [Script 3]

Presenter

Becky Yoose

Institution

Miami University

Description

AutoIt is a freeware Windows automation program that has helped many libraries automate Millennium workflows. Its flexibility and power allows users to build scripts that go well beyond automating keystrokes in cataloging, ordering, and in other processes. This hands-on session will introduce the participants to the basics of AutoIt programming (such as variables, conditional statements, and functions) and provide several examples where AutoIt has been utilized in Millennium workflows. The session will be geared towards those who have limited programming or OCLC Connexion macro scripting experience.

Title

The user catalog experience:  Mere bling or necessary enhancement, you decide!
[PDF File]

Presenter

Mark Strang

Institution

Bowling Green State University

Description

This presentation is a collection of ideas and javascript code taken from user contributions to the Innovative Users Group Clearinghouse and the IUG electronic list.  There are so many fun and exciting things being done out there, and some of them are pretty easy.  Many of the things demonstrated will be cut and paste code that will help you to spice up your traditional Innovative WebPAC.

Title

DEMONSTRATION:  What books do your users request from other libraries?: New tools for analyzing INN-Reach data
[PDF Info Page]

Presenter

Ken Irwin

Institution

Wittenberg University

Description

The III system provides very little usable data on what materials our users borrow from through INN-Reach. This presentation will demonstrate software (InnReachTracker) our library has developed to leverage this minimal information into much more robust data about the materials we borrow from other libraries in our system. Knowing what materials our users borrow from other institutions is just as important to collection development librarians as knowing which of our own materials get used.  Using this web-based software, we are able to view books sorted by call number, title, frequency and recency of use. That information contributes to our evaluation of our own collection and highlights books we may need to purchase and subject areas in which we may wish to further develop our collections. In addition to demonstrating these home-grown tools, we will make them available to other interested libraries.

This presentation will likely be of interest to collection development and systems librarians from any library that uses INN-Reach. An intermediate Unix/Linux user will be needed to set up the software, but the demonstration will be suitable for both techie and non-techie librarians.

Title

DEMONSTRATION: Make it print!
[PDF]

Presenters

Marlene Pelyhes and Kevin Brown

Institution

Mentor Public Library and BayScan Technologies

Description

Demo of printing spine labels from start to finish.

Beginning with a Zebra TLP 2844 printer and Millennium 2009a, we demo

each step needed to print out a spine label for book processing:

•       Install the printer driver .  Check that Windows can print to the zebra printer

•       Measure the length and width of the label in cm.

•       Set the printer to label dimensions

•       Start with a template close to what you need

•       Export the template to iReport

•       Use iReport to set the dimensions in the template layout

•       Use Java String Methods to add fields from the Millennium Data Library

•       Upload the file from iReport to Millennium

•       Print label from Millennium.

There are three elements to be explained:

iReport – free software for designing the spine label printout

Java String Methods – knowing a little helps for less complex code

Zebra drivers – make sure you have the right one

Even if your library doesn’t need spine labels, this knowledge can be applied to other print templates features in Millennium – and when print templates meet circulation notices (projected in 2009b), your library will be able to personalize circulation notices.

Title

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: CSI: E-Resources 

Presenter

Deberah England

Institution

Wright State University

Description

Join us as we probe the seamy underside of electronic resources.  What’s working?  What’s not?  Is there anything cutting edge and “innovative” to help solve the case of e-workflows?  This discussion of common situations and issues may include, but are not limited to gathering and managing usage statistics, budgets, managing the transition from print to electronic, preparing staff for working with electronic formats, and clues to what’s coming on the e-resources crime scene.  Discussion will be led by Detective “Horatio” England.  While this BOF has a target audience of those who have fully-implemented ERM systems or have a pre-existing knowledge of e-resources workflow and issues, all are welcome to join the conversation.  Those seeking a more basic discussion of ERM may consider attending the BOF titled “Implementing the ERM”.

Title

HANDS ON!: You, too, can use OCLC macros
[PowerPoint Slides] [PDF Resource Page] [PDF Demo 2]

Presenter

Carrie Preston

Institution

Ohio University

Description

OCLC macros can save cataloger time and labor in ways that go far beyond the capabilities of constant data. This workshop is intended to dispel some of the mystery for those who've never used macros before. Participants will install and run at least one OCLC macro, and be shown online documentation and tutorials for further learning. We'll then discuss macro applications and basic programming concepts if time permits.