SWAN Board,
I shared this list with Jim and Anne as part of our Ambassador Program discussion. I find it absolutely amazing how much turnover there has been recently.
Please bring this to our meeting tomorrow.
Aaron
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
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http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board,
Last month at our meeting at Prairie State College, the SWAN Board discussed how we should handle consortia-wide decisions for the migration. The guidelines we decided upon were to focus on (1) policy changes, and (2) financial impact.
As the SWAN migration comes into rapid focus, I would like to have my management team provide you an overview tomorrow of the big picture changes.
I have asked Member Services Manager Kate Boyle, Special Project Coordinator Rebecca Malinowski, Bibliographic Services Manager Kate Boyle, and IT Manager Steven Schlewitt to join us at the meeting tomorrow.
Kate will present some of the big changes we could take within our new Symphony ILS configuration. Much of the big changes only came into focus this week when we received our first draft of the migration timeline from SirsiDynix. The changes we will discuss are big and involve the consortium taking a patron-centric approach.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board Members:
The Friday 6/20 meeting packet is now available for you:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2014-06-20/pa…
The meeting packet is 125 pages long. The bulk of this packet is the final Bylaws document (already reviewed, just included to ratify the vote), and proposed discussion item of Employee Handbook revisions, which will be reviewed in more detail at a Personnel Committee meeting at a later date. We do not anticipate going past lunchtime, so no lunch will be provided unless we do.
See you Friday!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board,
You can see that a huge shakeup is going on in the ILS market. Paul Mills (head of Pinnacle) is here at Burr Ridge and he noted that at the IUG conference, Kim Massana said there would be further acquisitions and mergers. III might not be done yet.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
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