SWAN Board,

SWAN’s Special Projects Coordinator Mary Lou Coffman has announced her retirement from SWAN after 20 years of service. Below is the email I sent to SWAN staff this morning.

Mary Lou and I are discussing some limited part-time employment to accomplish some projects in advance of an ILS migration.  She has extensive background on the Millennium data arrangement, so I am interested in some “data dictionaries” and possibly some “data mapping” projects. Any offer of employment would be arranged on a limited basis, it would not be open ended. Nothing is set yet.

For me, her retirement is not a surprise. I expected some staff would take stock of the upcoming migration and make a decision regarding their career at SWAN.

Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog@railslibraries.info
http://support.swanlibraries.net

From: Aaron Skog
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:56 AM
To: swanstaff
Subject: Retirement Announcement

SWAN Staff,

Mary Lou Coffman has informed me that she will be retiring from SWAN on January 31st. Mary Lou began working at SWAN in 1994 within SWAN’s Database Maintenance department and was a key contributor to the ILS migration from GEAC to Innovative Interface’s INNOPAC. Over the years Mary Lou has utilized her extensive knowledge of catalog record data and other areas of the Millennium ILS accessible to custom reports. Mary Lou has been the “go-to” person for our member libraries that needed a better understanding of how data can better serve them, and has provided numerous workshops and one-on-one training over the years. She has focused on many projects over her tenure at SWAN, managing a wide variety of areas on behalf of the consortium, including the deployment of Millennium Patron Images and Digital Signatures. I am sure I might be forgetting something… she has done A LOT!

Mary Lou will work with the Illinois State Board of Education, focusing on the area of serving children within the autism spectrum.

Over the next several weeks Mary Lou will continue to coordinate our Release 2011 upgrade, among other projects. She and I will work to transition areas of our services she oversees.

Please congratulate Mary Lou and wish her well.

Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog@railslibraries.info
http://support.swanlibraries.net