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What a fantastic response to our new Library Calendar Wizard! The wizard is feeling loved, but is a bit overwhelmed. To ensure that everyone gets to use this feature, please make sure to close out of the Library Calendar Wizard when you are finished entering your dates. This wizard allows only one person at a time to be logged in. You may receive an error stating "The records are currently in use. Please try again later". While we are looking at possible solutions to this issue, we recommend that you try to open the wizard later or the following day. We will send out more information as it becomes available.
Crystal Vela
Consultant, Member Services
crystal(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:crystal@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-8059
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
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We have some exciting Circulation updates for you!
Library Calendar
SWAN Libraries now have the option to manage their own Library Calendar, also referred to as Days Closed. The Library Calendar Wizard is now located in the Special Wizards Group under the Circulation toolbar. You will need to use the Circulation Supervisor password to access it.
If you would still prefer SWAN manage your library calendar for you, please email your dates to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net>. Be sure to indicate you would like SWAN to manage these dates for you.
If you choose to manage your own Library Calendar, you do not need to send SWAN your scheduled closings. But, for emergency closings - after adding dates to your calendar, please notify SWAN so we can modify existing due dates as a convenience for your patrons and notify the membership on your behalf.
Please see the attached documentation for instructions, and watch this instructional video<https://youtu.be/hhPe-d9eoYA> on our YouTube channel!
Cancellation Notices for Manually Cancelled Holds
SWAN is now able to send hold cancellation notices for holds cancelled in Enterprise or Workflows with an inactive reason of CANCELLED. This includes holds patrons cancel themselves or holds cancelled by staff. Just like the current hold cancellation notices that are already running, these notices are only sent via email and are go out once daily, in the morning.
Samantha Dietel
Consultant, Member Services
samantha(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:samantha@swanlibraries.net> * (630) 326-8647
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
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To ensure a smooth Quarterly Billing process, we have made updates to the Procedure for Collecting Money for Damaged or Lost RB/ILL Items not yet Billed. Please see the attached documentation.
If you have any questions please send in a help desk ticket to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net>
Crystal Vela
Consultant, Member Services
crystal(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:crystal@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-8059
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
SirsiDynix has reported all harvests have completed and BCA information should be up to date. We recommend you wait until the BCA harvest completes tomorrow (after 10 am) before running your reports.
Vickie Totton
Consultant, Member Services
vickie(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:vickie@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-8714
**Please note my new contact information**
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
From: swancom-bounces(a)list.swanlibraries.net [mailto:swancom-bounces@list.swanlibraries.net] On Behalf Of Vickie Totton
Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 10:30 AM
To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net
Subject: [SWANcom] Issues with BLUEcloud Analytics (BCA)
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The overnight harvests have not been completed on BCA since Thursday, March 29. If you subscribe to your Circulation Statistics on BCA please be aware you will need to re-run the reports when we receive notice that the harvest has been completed. If you run your reports manually every month please wait until the harvests are complete.
Vickie Totton
Consultant, Member Services
vickie(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:vickie@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-8714
**Please note my new contact information**
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
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The overnight harvests have not been completed on BCA since Thursday, March 29. If you subscribe to your Circulation Statistics on BCA please be aware you will need to re-run the reports when we receive notice that the harvest has been completed. If you run your reports manually every month please wait until the harvests are complete.
Vickie Totton
Consultant, Member Services
vickie(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:vickie@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-8714
**Please note my new contact information**
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Good morning SWAN Libraries:
Now that the self-nomination window has ended, we are pleased to announce our candidates for the 2 open seats in our 2018 Board election. We received Statements of Interest from the following candidates for your consideration in the upcoming election: Natalie Bazan of North Riverside Public Library District, Julie Milavec of Downers Grove Public Library, and Stacy Wittmann of Eisenhower Public Library District.
Our election will officially open for voting on Monday, April 30th. I will send out a SWANcom once the polls are open. They will remain open until Friday, May 18th at 5pm CST. The results will be announced at our June 7th Quarterly meeting. The new board members will begin serving their terms on July 1st.
Thank you,
Brande Overbey
Operations Manager
brande(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:brande@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7104
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Good morning member libraries,
SWAN will be working with SirsiDynix to perform an upgrade of the current Symphony Web Services platform. We'll be moving to version 2018.03, which resolves a bug with the 'Forgot My PIN' feature. We've scheduled the upgrade with SirsiDynix for Tuesday April 3rd, to start between 9:00am and 9:30am. This upgrade will require downtime of Web Services for about 20 minutes.
You can read more about the services that will be impacted on the support site:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2018-03-30/upcoming-web-services-upg…
Tara Wood
User Experience Manager
tara(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:tara@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7706
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
SWAN Libraries,
This announcement pertains to one area of our Symphony global configuration that is overdue for improved security: masking personal identification numbers, or PINs. With SWAN's database of 1 million library user's information, and soon to be 1.3 million patron records, it is time to provide a minimum of privacy to our patron's accounts. What was initially a temporary measure after SWAN switched to Symphony in April 2015, instead lasted three years.
We have set Monday, April 16, 2018 as the day when PINs in Symphony will no longer be visible, but will be masked by asterisks. Please read the SWAN support site post for some background on this upcoming change.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2018-03-27/masking-patron-pins-start…
If you have questions regarding this upcoming change, please send in a support request to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> or reach out to me directly.
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7022
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
844-792-6542
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
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Effective Tuesday, 3/27/2018
Should a cardholder from a special or academic library attempt to use their card at a public SWAN library, that user will be blocked from circulation. This will help eliminate any accidental checkouts to these users should staff miss that this is not a public library user record. This has been a long-outstanding request that we are now happy to accommodate!
If public library staff attempt to check out to or renew items for a special or academic library cardholder, they will see the following message. Please note that this message cannot be overridden.
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This is the same message that public library staff currently see when attempting to modify a special or academic library record.
Public libraries will still be able to check in materials from special or academic library cardholders.
Happy Monday!
Samantha Dietel
Consultant, Member Services
samantha(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:samantha@swanlibraries.net> * (630) 326-8647
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Good morning,
We've begun to plan for our 2018 SWANstravaganza Annual Conference, to be held this year on Friday, August 17th at Moraine Valley Community College. To help us develop this year's conference, we'd like to find out what you want to hear about!
Do you have a topic that you'd like to present for us, or a suggestion for what you'd like to see offered in our breakout sessions? Please visit the following post on our website to submit your idea or proposal:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2018-03-26/swanstravaganza-2018-call…
Thanks so much for sharing!
Brande Overbey
Operations Manager
brande(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:brande@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7104
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
SWAN has made adjustments to delivery routing procedures. The changes are outlined in the attached document.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact us.
Vickie Totton
Consultant, Member Services
vickie(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:vickie@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-8714
**Please note my new contact information**
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
SWAN Membership,
The Enterprise upgrade was completed this morning but we encountered some issues throughout the day today. What was encountered after the upgrade was in two main categories:
* Searches that return no results for your library profile
* Downloadable eBooks and Audiobook searches that return no results
Things appear to be stable at the moment but we ask that you remain vigilant and report any issues with searching via help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net>
This upgrade also included SWAN's Enterprise updates to the home page, header, and footer. For details on this planned work, refer to the SWAN March 1 Quarterly meeting presentation:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2018-03-05/mar-1-quarterly-meeting-p…
We have removed the upgrade banner from Enterprise. Thank you again everyone!
Aaron Skog
Executive Director
aaron(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7022
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
844-792-6542
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Hello all,
We're experiencing issues with slowness, and some search strings and limiters not returning results. We're working with SirsiDynix to resolve these issues and you may experience anomalies throughout the day today.
Thank you for your patience, and we hope to resolve these problems soon.
Tara Wood
User Experience Manager
tara(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:tara@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7706
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>
Apologies all, the date on the previous email was incorrect:
A reminder that the Enterprise 5.0 upgrade is scheduled for tonight, 3/21 at 3 a.m. Enterprise and Web Services will be down for 4-6 hours.
Throughout the day today, you will see changes to your profiles in preparation for the upgrade that include:
* A new theme
* Layout updates to detail display of search results
* Novelist disabled (temporarily until after the upgrade)
See the support site for more information on the upgrade: https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2018-03-06/upcoming-enterprise-and-w…
Thank you,
Tara Wood
User Experience Manager
tara(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:tara@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7706
SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>