The self-nomination period has ended and the slate of candidates for the three seats on the SWAN Board will be the following. Since there are the three candidates who volunteered for the three open seats, SWAN will not have to conduct an election for the 2025 cycle. Congratulations to the three library directors who will be seated July 2025 (please note, the SWAN Board has not approved its meeting schedule for the FY2026 year).
Ben Weseloh, West Chicago Public Library District
Laura Van Cleve, Richton Park Public Library District
Ridgeway Burns, Itasca Community Library
You can read their submitted statements from the SWAN news post below.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2025-05/94855
Regards,
Aaron
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
915 Harger Road, Suite 260, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
SWAN Member Library Staff:
Please be aware, last night we encountered an abnormal ADUText report, which handles our daily record maintenance and processing. You may encounter record issues throughout the day until the next successful run of the ADUText report.
We've reached out to SirsiDynix with hopes to mitigate some of the record issues as soon as possible. If you come across errors with specific records, please email a list to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> and we'll forward them to SirsiDynix for further investigation and temporary correction.
Please check the Known Issue for more information.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/issue/94850
SWAN Library Services
915 Harger Road Ste. 260, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
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Hello SWAN library directors & administrators-
The SWAN Board is calling for representation from all member library directors/administrators for three at-large positions, with terms beginning on July 1, 2025. The online form to submit the self-nomination statement is open on the SWAN Support site (login required). Information about the SWAN Board, the election timetable, and SWAN governance can be found on the SWAN Board webpage under "Information for Board Members.<https://support.swanlibraries.net/board-information/64973>"
The self-nomination form will be open until Friday, May 2, 2025.
Link to the self-nomination form<https://support.swanlibraries.net/form/94600>
If you have any questions about the board or would like to reach out to current board members, please reach out!
SWAN Board Member
Library
Email
Term Expires
Dawn Bussey
Glen Ellyn Public Library
dawnbussey(a)gepl.org<mailto:dawnbussey@gepl.org>
July 1, 2027
Zach Musil
Tinley Park Public Library
zmusil(a)tplibrary.org<mailto:zmusil@tplibrary.org>
July 1, 2027
Anna Wassenaar
Blue Island Public Library
awassenaar(a)blueislandlibrary.org<mailto:awassenaar@blueislandlibrary.org>
July 1, 2025
Colleen Waltman
Homewood Public Library
colleenw(a)homewoodlibrary.org<mailto:colleenw@homewoodlibrary.org>
July 1, 2025
Jesse Blazek
Palos Heights Public Library
jblazek(a)phlibrary.org<mailto:jblazek@phlibrary.org>
July 1, 2025
Samantha Johnson
Roselle Public Library
sjohnson(a)rosellepld.org<mailto:sjohnson@rosellepld.org>
July 1, 2026
Jennifer Cottrill
Midlothian Public Library
jcottrill(a)midlothianlibrary.org<mailto:jcottrill@midlothianlibrary.org>
July 1, 2026
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7022
My pronouns: he/him/his
SWAN Library Services
915 Harger Road, Suite 260, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Good morning member libraries,
The partial restoration of missing checkout history in Aspen is complete. At this time, all titles that could be restored are in patrons' histories in My Account.
As a reminder of this issue, some patrons had missing titles in the catalog impacting titles checked out between January 2025 and March 2025. This issue corresponded to the server outages we experienced during that period and was resolved with our move to our new hosting and support provider in March.
While we worked to restore as much lost data as we could, this is a partial restoration - some patrons may still notice missing titles. If you work with patrons who have missing titles, they can manually add titles to their history<https://support.swanlibraries.net/documentation/84949> if they wish.
More details are available on the SWAN support site: https://support.swanlibraries.net/issue/94822
SWAN Library Services
915 Harger Road, Suite 260, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Good morning member libraries,
The new series page feature is live in your Aspen catalogs. This feature replaces our previous integration with Novelist Select. Please note there is no impact on your Novelist Plus and Novelist K-8 subscriptions.
We have more information available on the SWAN support site: https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2025-04/94843
Tara Wood
User Experience Manager
tara(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:tara@swanlibraries.net> * 630-326-7706
My pronouns: she/her/hers
SWAN Library Services
915 Harger Road, Suite 260, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
swanlibraries.net<https://swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Please be aware, last night we encountered an abnormal ADUText report, which handles our daily record maintenance and processing. You may encounter record issues throughout the day until the next successful run of the ADUText report.
We've reached out to SirsiDynix with hopes to mitigate some of the record issues as soon as possible. If you come across errors with specific records, please email a list to help(a)swanlibraries.net and we'll forward them to SirsiDynix for further investigation and temporary correction.
A Known Issue has been posted to our support site and will be updated as new information becomes available.
SWAN Library Services
915 Harger Road, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
Email: help(a)swanlibraries.net
Phone: 844-SWANLIB (844-792-6542)
https://support.swanlibraries.net
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