Suggested Topics for IUG 2010 Programs and Poster Sessions
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A Word From the IUG 2010 Program Committee: This list of topics has been reported to us via a variety of means as worthwhile conference sessions. We want to have an excellent conference next year in Chicago, Illinois (April 18 - 21, 2010) and this represents just a sampling of what people have asked for. We need volunteers to give these presentations. Please don't be shy - Innovative users (as proven nearly every day on the IUG list), know far more about the system than we tend to think we do! Program Tips:
All sessions are slotted for one hour. Make sure that your presentation can fit into that time slot, as sessions that are too long or short can be frustrating for users. All submitted programs will be reviewed by the Program Committee before being accepted. We have a finite number of program slots and will consider ALL proposals from IUG members and Innovative to get the most balanced overall program possible. If you want to give a program but aren't really sure about what's involved or how to proceed, write to any member of the Program Committee for advice: Pat Crawford Carol Gyger Mohamed Ragheb Christine Rigda Kathy Setter Ruth E. Souto Victor Zuniga |
Pre-Conference
- Basic module overviews for new/inexperienced users:
- Acquisitions: including setting up funds, claiming, electronic invoicing
- Serials: including electronic claiming, check in, holdings, routing, binding
- Cataloging: including authorities, working with the editor, headings reports, getting records into the system
- Circulation: including loan rules, notices, holds
- Interlibrary Loan: How To, basic setup and use
- WebPAC: step-by-step set-up instructions
- "But our OLD system could..." -- finding out how to do things, enhancement proposals, etc.
- Exporting and manipulating data
- Fiscal close and management of finances within Acquisitions
- How to configure your system - Tips and Tricks
- Improving Millennium performance - general maintenance
- Making best use of CSDirect, Innovative Documentation and User Manual
- Millennium Create Lists
- Statistics
- Survey/summary of capabilities and best practices within Innovative system
- Training tips: Wikis, Camtasia, Captivate, etc.
- Upgrading to a new release - best practices
- Workflow patterns and issues
- WWWOptions for beginners
Acquisitions and Serials
- Acquisitions and ERM interaction
- Acquisition topics that cover intermediate to advanced usage
- Acquisitions and cataloging interaction
- Acquisitions for smaller libraries
- Acquiring foreign language materials, entry and display of alternate character sets
- Archiving order records using Microsoft Access or other methods
- Bindery module and bindery interface (Able and Lars)
- Centralized online selection and ordering using Millennium Acquisitions
- Creative secondary record type (checkins/items/orders) creation using locally-created load profiles
- Electronic claiming
- Extended Approval Interface
- Fiscal close and management of finances within Acquisitions
- Fund setup including the establishment of fund reports and general fund structures
- Edifact ordering
- Invoicing
- Millennium Acquisitions, use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Millennium Serials, use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Output to financial systems, set-up, local programming, use of, etc.
- Purchase order and routing slip printing using Print Templates
- Reconciliation of your Innovative Acquisitions system and the financial system
- Reports in Acquisitions (financial, vendor, etc.)
- Selector/Recommendations functions
- Serials electronic invoicing
- Serials topics that cover intermediate to advance usage
- Workflow issues
- Working with 3rd party vendors (such as Datatel or OCLC PromptCat)
Cataloging and Authorities
- AACR3: Resource Description and Access - Development and Implementation
- Anything related to Authority Control, Database cleanup, Zen of Database Maintenance
- Authority control: do it yourself vs. using a vendor
- Authority control: best practices
- Authority maintenance: what kinds of changes are made once authorities are downloaded into the system to make them work with the local collection
- Automated authority processing
- Cataloging "How-tos" and technical topics
- Cataloging and acquisitions interaction
- Cataloging and FTS
- Cataloging basics: how to get started
- Cataloging codes information
- Cataloging topics that cover intermediate to advance usage
- Cataloging workflow, "how we do it well"
- Connexion macro-building
- Creating bib and item records
- Database cleanup
- Database maintenance using global update, etc
- Diacritics (in Millennium and the WebPAC)
- Fixed field explanations
- FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and its potential application utilizing Innovative system
- FRBR and/or RDA in general and implementation
- Future of online catalogs
- Global Update for authority control
- Headings reports in Millennium
- How Global Update differs from Rapid Update
- How Millennium Cataloging works with LTI
- Inventory and clean up
- Label printing
- Location codes
- Managing the switch to OCLC's Connexion
- MARC 21 holdings, overview, how to export holdings information, suggestions for coding/improving the display of holdings information, etc.
- MARC batch loading tips and tricks, ftp and load MARC files, load tables, 949 command lines, how batch loading improves access to collections, etc.
- Metadata Builder
- Metadata for non-book materials
- Millennium Cataloging macros
- Modify Group in cataloging
- Numerals: filing of Roman numerals, numerals in non-Arabic numbers
- Open source cataloging tools
- Planning and implementing E-Journal Holdings update, choice of single record vs. separate records, staff training, etc.
- Series tracing
- Spine label printing
- Storing and parsing non-MARC records on Millennium
- Technical Services - putting it all together (acq, cat, serials, erm modules)
- Unicode questions, not just from Innovative's side (Internationalization)
- URL checkers
- URL maintenance and use of the Millennium URL Checker Program
- Using III system to support inventory control at an off-site depository
- Using locations vs. prefix in call numbers
- Working with 3rd party cataloging and processing vendors, such as OCLC PromptCat
Circulation and Interlibrary Loan
- Alternate uses for Patron API
- Automated patron loads from Banner or other methods
- Booking Module: use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Circulation "Best Practices"
- Circulation in a Consortium environment
- Circulation parameters
- Circulation statistics: what and how to collect
- Circulation topics that cover intermediate to advance usage
- Circulation training: Wikis, Camtasia, Captivate, etc.
- Consortium statistics and reports
- Copyright management and E-reserves
- Courtesy notices, set-up, sample texts, use of, etc.
- Debt collection
- E-Reserves and PDAs
- E-Reserves: nuts and bolts
- E-Reserves: workflows/cycles
- Holds management and reports
- How to do inventory without the Percon readers
- Integrating other e-reserve software (e.g. Docutek ERes) with MilCirc
- Interfacing with courseware vendors, especially for electronic reserves without using the III e-reserve module
- Interlibrary loan module: use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Inventory solutions
- Loan rules, loan rule audits and clean ups
- Millennium Express Lane
- Patriot Act, privacy, and patrons: files retained, My Millennium, My Reading History, My Preferred Searches, and the server,
- Printing and e-mailing circulation notices using different character sets (Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.), using new technology (i.e. switching from dot matrix to laser printer, etc.), or using third party software to print postal barcodes, etc.
- Reserves (print and electronic): how to, tips and tricks
- RFID
- Self-checkout: 3M self checks/Other systems and the interface with Millennium
- Teleforms
- Using RSS for Circulation and Program Registration alerts
E-Tools: ERM, WebBridge, etc.
- E-journal management
- ERM (Electronic Resource Management): Implementation
- ERM: Implementing with other ILS systems
- ERM: Basics for beginners; in-depth for advanced users
- ERM: coverage load issues (CASE, Serial Solutions, etc)
- ERM: WebPAC integration
- ERM: Workflow of setting up resource, contact, license records, etc.
- Media Management
- Practical examples from e-resources management
- OpenURL Link Resolver (WebBridge)
- Research Pro: how to implement
- Statistics for electronic resources (paid vs. free resources; aggregated titles, etc.)
- Update on loading e-journal holding
- WebBridge: basic how-to setup, implementation
- WebBridge: creative uses for non-journal items (pointing to staff pages, maps, locations, etc.)
- WebBridge: hands on (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced)
- WebBridge: Linking in the WebPAC
- WebBridge: linking syntax, configuring field selectors and datatests
- XML harvester and associated products
INN-Reach
- Customization
- INN-Reach API
- Multiple libraries (special, public, academic) cooperating & using a single database
- Multiple IP software
- Systems Administration
- Training tips for Central and Member sites
- Visiting Patron
- Web Statistics/Reports through Google Analytics
Lists and Statistics
- Automating reports from Create Lists using free/low cost software applications
- Circulation statistics
- Collection development statistics
- Create Lists and Global Update
- Creating queries in Create Lists for different record types (including a refresher on regular expressions)
- ERM and statistics, specifically including XML loading statistics
- How to get better vendor reports and statistics
- Global Update how-to
- How to get turnover rates from Web Management Reports
- Methods of keeping cataloging statistics (either through Millennium Statistics or by other methods)
- Millennium Statistics module (all levels)
- Regular expressions in Create Lists
- SCAT tables
- SCAT table implementation in a consortium
- Scripting and Web Management Reports
- Setting up codes to run better statistics
- Statistics for internal use
- Usage statistics
- Using Google Analytics with your WebPac to track use statistics
- Using Millennium Statistics and Create Lists for collection analysis
- Web statistics
- Various software used with Millennium to automate reporting from Create Lists
Management and Reports
- Code use for ARL or accreditation statistics gathering
- Identifying locally important collections (faculty authors or local history)
- Moving to Millennium modules -- how training was organized, what problems to expect, avoid, etc.
- Overview of available reports and ways to customize them
- Various software used with Millennium to automate reporting from Create Lists
- Use of Management Reports and/or different ways to get turnover rates
- User license management
- Web Management Reports and Field Statistics in Collection Development
- Web Management Reports: in general
- Web Management Reports: for collection development (age of collection, etc.)
- XML and SUSHI statistics
Service and Systems
- Applications scripting (Perl, Expect, etc.) to automate functions
- Using Windows based products to automate functions
- Backup
- Call tracking on the local level, documentation, interface with III's call system, software used
- Cleaning up an aging system (codes, etc.)
- Data Exchange: record loading in Millennium
- FTS, troubleshooting, etc.
- How to make the most out of your system
- Keeping track of enhancements in new releases -- what to do if you can't go through all of the great new things at the same time that you upgrade
- LDAP integration
- Load table nuts and bolts (for both libraries with and without load profile training)
- Local system administration documentation techniques, procedures, and best practices (including logins and passwords)
- Macros
- Migrating from Turnkey to Software Only, pros & cons, lessons learned
- Millennium Login Manager, settings and managing them
- Moving from character based to Millennium in one or more modules
- Nuts and bolts of Z39.50
- One-card systems, how libraries work with their campus IT departments to interface the card system with III
- ORACLE, Perl, and other high level systems procedures
- Perl basics
- Printer/Printing boot camp
- Printing in different modules
- Printing tips and tricks; diacritics & foreign languages (CJK); types of printers
- Reviewing system tables
- Scripting
- Security issues
- Setting up Millennium for remote use
- Streamlining Millennium processes (with macros, templates, substitution phrases)
- Surviving system administration for small academic libraries
- System Access Administration module
- System administration information (i.e. everything you need to touch to add a library, exactly how do some functions work, system maintenance, etc.)
- Technical information on III's database schema and file layout beyond what is given in the turnkey interface
- Thin client technology
- Tools to maintain initials/authorizations/logins
- Troubleshooting system problems
- Using III server as main web server
- Using regular expressions in and out of Innovative
- Web Access Management
- Working with User Manual
WebPAC
- Advanced wwwoptions
- Briefcit.html forms and display in the WebPAC
- Cascading style sheets
- Creative use of multimedia options
- Customized forms and tokens
- Designing multilingual WebPACs
- Examples of custom bibliographic display in WebPAC Pro
- KidsOnline
- Making good use of WebPAC Pro example sets
- My Millennium & staff OPAC; staff use of My Millennium
- New developments with MAJAX
- Next generation catalogs, futurecasting
- Open source products with WebPAC (LibraryThing, VUfind, XC, etc.)
- Portal integration; web sites as information portals
- RSS Feedbuilder
- Research Pro
- Scoping
- Scripting tips and tricks
- Sorting search results when using different languages (different alphabets)
- SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) in WebPAC
- System administration
- Use of Perl, PHP, Cold Fusion and/or other scripting tools external to III software to manipulate and redisplay data from the WebPAC
- Web 2.0 issues (include panel discussion)
- Web Access Management
- Webmaster functions
- WebPAC Pro (taking advantage of the new functionality)
- WebPAC options, designs, redesigns, customization, adapting example sets
- Webpubdef - customizing
- WWWOptions for intermediate to advance users
Forums - Please consider very specialized forums for Birds of a Feather Sessions
- Academic Libraries Consortium forum
- Academic Libraries forum
- Acquisitions forum
- AirPAC forum
- Cataloging forum
- Circulation forum
- Consortium (academic and public) forum
- Corporate Libraries forum
- Customer Services forum
- ECommerce forum
- ERM forum
- Encore forum
- Express Lane forum
- INN-Reach forum
- Interlibrary loan users forum
- K-12 School Libraries forum
- Load Tables forum
- Open forum on hardware
- Oracle forum
- Print Templates forum
- PromptCat Users forum
- Public Libraries forum
- Public Library Consortium forum
- Serials forum
- Special Libraries forum
- Systems management forum
- Technical/System Admin roundtable/forum
- Trainers forum
- Web 2.0 forum
- WebBridge forum
- WebPAC forum
Other Programs, Products
- ADA accessibility and III products
- AirPAC
- ASRS (Automatic Storage and Retrieval Interface)
- Bridging the gap between IT professionals and library professionals and reconciling the needs of each
- Digitization(Media Management)
- Documentation (provided by Innovative and available through the Clearinghouse)
- E-Commerce
- Encore and next generation interfaces
- Encore: customization
- Encore: implementation
- Gaming and the ILS
- Good approaches to handling record-keeping, monitoring, etc.
- Help for institutions still using character based
- How to collaborate with Google, Facebook
- International users: different things they have done with their WebPACs
- Inventory with PDA (handheld computer)
- IT director from a college who has integrated the IT department and library
- IUG Clearinghouse -- Primer for new users and contributors
- Keeping up with changes in new releases
- Library 2.0 and patron empowerment: RSS, blogs, social computing, wikis, community feedback, ratings, reviews
- Link server applications other than WebBridge and their use with III
- Management and administration of staff in automation environment
- Mashups
- Monographic Holdings product
- OpenURL
- Portal Integration and single sign-on
- Privacy issues and the ILS
- Public and academic libraries joint ventures and how setup issues are managed
- RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
- Research Pro
- Sessions for reference librarians
- Social networking
- Strategic Planning and the ILS
- Symposia
- Systems Department staffing and training issues
- Technology as it is changing libraries
- Testing system parameter changes
- Text messaging and IM services
- Topics geared toward shared systems
- Training discussion group
- Training modules or tools developed to assist staff in learning how to do various tasks of low to moderate complexity in the system
- Training issues
- Understanding the current and future role of the ILS
- Usability testing
- Using III system to enhance bibliographic instruction, reference services, etc.
- Using wikis and other content management systems
- Working around known issues
- WorldCat Local
- XML products / XML for Librarians