SWAN Library Staff:
This morning, we experienced a brief period of slowness on the SWAN catalog due to a runaway system process on the server. The issue has since been resolved and it appears the catalog is now functioning as expected. We will continue to monitor the situation throughout the day, but feel free to contact us at help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> or call our support line at 630.734.5153 should you experience any issues that appear to be related.
Thank you and have a great weekend!
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Library Staff:
The attached memo outlines the upcoming SirsiDynix Enterprise Stress Test, as noted at this week's Committee of the Whole meeting.
This test will take place on Thursday, January 22nd, from 10AM-12PM. We are encouraging all applicable SWAN member library staff to participate during this testing window.
Ian Nosek
SWAN System Administrator
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5120
Fax: 630.734.5056
ian.nosek(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:ian.nosek@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
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Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
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Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
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Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hello Member Libraries,
We have two new marketing tools available for you, created via collaboration through the SWAN PR & Marketing Committee. These docs are attached to the email in Word format. If you'd prefer a different format, just email me and I can convert them.
Elevator Speech: This is a concise way to capture what this migration means to SWAN and our membership. Imagine being asked to describe the migration quickly, while being stuck in an elevator with someone who has asked you. This tool is helpful to share with all staff, so that they can familiarize themselves with the basics of the migration and better communicate it quickly and efficiently to patrons that ask.
Press Release Template: This is a draft copy of a sample press release, and can be used for community flyers, local newspapers, or wherever else you see fit. This can get you started and be adapted by your own PR team, or be used as is (just substitute in your own library name where indicated) to let your communities know a bit more about what to expect in the coming months (and generate excitement)!
We hope that you find these tools useful as a starter. We will be following up next week with our first edition of our PR newsletter (for staff), and in a few weeks with our first patron bookmark. As always, we welcome any suggestions, comments, or questions about SWAN marketing!
Thank you,
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 Directors and Administrators,
As noted at today's Committee of the Whole meeting and in Migration Memo #5, today we have mailed to you a packet containing all necessary components to enroll with SirsiDynix BLUECloud Commerce and ProPay.
The due date for completion and return of this application is Monday, February 23rd by 5pm CST.
This packet contains an introduction letter with instructions on how to complete the enclosed application, including the statistics specific to your library that you will need. It also includes a pre-addressed, stamped envelope for return of this application to SWAN. We will not be opening the applications but sending them directly on for processing. However, we need to tally the receipt of these applications to ensure 100% compliance.
For more information, please refer to Migration Memo#5, located here:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/system/files/Members%20Only/Migration%20M…
If you have any additional questions, feel free to email Aaron or I.
Thank you!
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
First, thanks to all those who reported issues and examples!
Second, Innovative has run the re-indexing again. The records I have all seem to work. Once again, please report any further issues with index searching and provide examples if you can.
Thanks again for your patience!
Dave Pacin
SWAN Support Specialist
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5151
Fax: 630.734.5056
dave.pacin(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:dave.pacin@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Member Libraries:
The next 2015 SWAN Committee of the Whole meeting agenda for Tuesday, January 13th at Burr Ridge can now be found online here:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2015-01-13/ag…
At this meeting we will be going over a proposed FY16 Budget and provide an ILS Migration Update. We hope to see you there!
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 Library Directors/Administrators:
This migration memo pertains to the transition of the existing online payment system for patrons within WebPAC, over to the new catalog Enterprise which will go live on April 14, 2015.
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
Innovative's re-indexing process has completed. Please report any continuing issues with ISN, call number or keyword searching. Thanks for your patience!
Dave Pacin
SWAN Support Specialist
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5151
Fax: 630.734.5056
dave.pacin(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:dave.pacin@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Innovative has just updated SWAN on progress. They began running a process to fix these issues this morning. Issues were reported with ISN, call number and keyword searching. The process is still running at this time but it is anticipated that it will be complete today.
Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
There have been issues reported with ISN, call number and keyword searching. A high priority ticket has been opened with Innovative.
It has been noted by at least one library that this is apparently affecting Quick Click ordering by creating duplicate records.
We will share more information as it becomes available.
Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Please route to appropriate staff.
As we have done in previous years, the YTDCirc and LYRCirc fields in the item records will be updated this Friday, January 2, 2015.
The YTDCirc count will be moved to the LYRCirc field and the YTDCirc field will be reset to 0. The LYRCirc is not a running total but is a reflection of the 2014 circulation for that item.
Please contact me with any questions you may have.
Renee Clanton
SWAN Member Services Consultant
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5169
Fax: 630.734.5056
renee.clanton(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:renee.clanton@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hi everyone,
The Items Deletion Report will be run on the last week day of the month, December 31, 2014. This report will capture the December 2014 information for central items deletion. If your library collects items deletion statistics, run your usual statistics reports by end of day 12/30/14. The actual process of deleting these December 2014 item records from the system will be run on 1/5/15.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Happy holidays!
Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Member Libraries and Information Technology Staff:
This morning between 5:30 and 6am, we performed maintenance on our primary SonicWall firewalls that had resulted in some brief expected downtime.
Our systems are currently back online, but we recommend that you double-check some of your 3rd party hardware and services (such as self-checks, AMH, or e-commerce systems) to ensure the brief interruption did not cause a disconnect from the ILS.
Should you experience any issues at all this morning relating to your SWAN connection, please don't hesitate to email us at help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> or call 630.734.5153.
Thank you and happy holidays!
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
125 Tower Drive<x-apple-data-detectors://1/1>
Burr Ridge, IL 60527<x-apple-data-detectors://1/1>
Phone: 630.734.5130<tel:630.734.5130>
Fax: 630.734.5056<tel:630.734.5056>
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net<http://support.swanlibraries.net/>
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Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Member Libraries:
I am happy to announce the SWAN membership approval for two new libraries for the SWAN consortium. Last week SWAN directors approved the libraries to join.
Lansing and Franklin Park libraries currently use SirsiDynix as the ILS vendor, and both have been visited by many SWAN library staff over the last several months as part of individual library research in preparation for the consortium software migration to Symphony (and related solutions).
We expect each library to migrate and begin circulation in SWAN sometime in mid-2016, prior to summer.
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
Everyone -
Happy Holidays to one and all. Attached is an announcement about the SWAN holiday schedule with support contact information. Enjoy your holidays.
Kate Boyle
SWAN Member Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5162
Fax: 630.734.5056
kate.boyle(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:kate.boyle@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Everyone -
Palos Park PL is now open.
Kate Boyle
SWAN Member Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5162
Fax: 630.734.5056
kate.boyle(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:kate.boyle@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Everyone -
Just a quick note to let you know that the Palos Park PL is experiencing a power outage and is temporarily closed. More information will be forthcoming.
Kate Boyle
SWAN Member Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5162
Fax: 630.734.5056
kate.boyle(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:kate.boyle@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Library Directors:
At the December Quarterly meeting, the SWAN Board presented a recommendation for approving the Franklin Park Public Library District and the Lansing Public Library. The addition of the two libraries would bring the total number of full membership libraries to 79. Both libraries are automated, and the migration and go-live for the two libraries would take place in 2016 (a year after SWAN's consortium-wide migration). For more information and to have your library cast its vote, please see the link below for information about these two libraries and the voting ballot.
https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2014-12-15/library-directors-approve…
Fifty-one libraries voting "affirmative" is required (2/3 of the membership) for approval of all new consortium member libraries. Please complete the vote by December 31.
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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Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
A new batch of titles and items has been loaded.
Search subject: eMedia Library 20141212
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38 titles total
Karen Bar
SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5138
Fax: 630.734.5056
karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net