SWAN Board,

I announced in the SWAN newsletter today that the 9/3 SWAN Quarterly agenda was posted, but I wanted to make sure I let you all know to take a look at it.

https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/20_09_03/66914/agenda2020-09-03.pdf

The Aspen Discovery project will be presented likely for the first time to the majority of directors and I wanted to let you all know what I will recommend as a timeline and next steps. The short: is this project is going very, very well and I think you will all be very excited to see it live and working!

Background

April 2020: SWAN contracted with ByWater Solutions to build Aspen Discovery server hosted by SWAN for $12,275 (complete)

May – June: ByWater built Aspen against SWAN’s live catalog, create 4 library profiles, develop integration with EDS, Axis 360 e-books (complete)

July 2020: DUX tests SWAN’s Aspen in comparison with SWAN’s Enterprise, relevancy report released (complete)

Next Steps

Sept 3, 2020: SWAN quarterly membership presentation on Aspen Discovery project to-date

Sept 18, 2020: SWAN board discusses the Aspen project and decides if all 100 library profiles should be created, approval of additional $12,275 with ByWater

November – January: SWAN arranges pilots Aspen with selected member libraries

March 2020: SWAN quarterly meeting Aspen Discovery presentation with final recommendation and decision to begin switch away from Enterprise to Aspen. This will have some tie-in with the FY22 budget approval.

There will be information in the 9/3 Quarterly meeting packet next week and then some additional information for you at the 9/18 SWAN Board meeting. I spoke with Ted this week about all this and we can outline some of the approach the board should take and how SWAN staff should handle the next phase.

Again, no reply-all to this email. If you would like to begin looking at some of the Aspen Project details online, we have this page going for our DUX group who has been involved throughout this project.

https://support.swanlibraries.net/documentation/78234

Regards,

Aaron

Aaron Skog

Executive Director

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