SWAN Library Directors and Administrators:
We are pleased to announce the start of the 2015 SWAN Board election process. SWAN will have three open at-large position on the Board starting July 1, 2015. The SWAN Board is comprised of seven library directors elected from our SWAN member libraries.
Board member responsibilities include:
* Acting on issues affecting the long-term future of SWAN
* Monitoring SWAN's finances and the overall financial health of SWAN
* Maintaining open lines of communication with the SWAN membership
Since our open seats are all at-large now, any director can submit a statement of interest for this election. The goal is to have an open process and at the same time ensure that all SWAN membership is represented during elections. Any library director/administrator interested in running for the Board should fill out the form located at the link below:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2015-03-05/swan-board-self-nominatio…
The Self-Nomination Form will be available until Friday, March 20th at 5pm CST. Our election process will run for three weeks, from Monday May 4th through Friday May 22nd. The elected board member will be announced at the June Quarterly Meeting.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Brande Overbey
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.overbey(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.overbey@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Libraries:
Today's March Quarterly presentation is available online. I fixed up a few mistakes that were in the presentation this morning. :)
Direct link to the PowerPoint:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2015-03-05/SW…
If that link does not work, you can download the file from this publicly available webpage:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/gov/meetings
We will be publishing the recording of this meeting shortly. I will let you know when it is available on the SWAN YouTube channel.
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
Attention SWAN Library Inter-Library Loan Staff:
As you are most likely aware, RAILS is undertaking a multiyear, four phase project to explore options to provide more seamless access to Resource Sharing (i.e., searching system-wide holdings and placing interlibrary loan requests) throughout the service area for all libraries. RAILS is currently in Phase Two: Research into Organizational Factors. To find out more about the RAILS project, read about it on the RAILS website here: https://www.railslibraries.info/catalogs/overlay
RAILS is working with organizational consultant Eric Craymer, who will be conducting focus groups with various stakeholders.
This attached memo is for interested library directors and specifically ILL staff. We hope to have Interlibrary Loan staff representation attend the appropriate focus group session. Please register online in L2 by 5:00 PM on Friday, March 12. The maximum number of registrants will be 25.
http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=19504
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
SWAN Library Staff:
The Symphony WorkFlows Test Server has been refreshed and is now available for use.
Thanks again for your patience throughout the weekend.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
From: Steven Schlewitt
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:41 AM
To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net
Subject: SWAN Symphony Test Server Maintenance This Weekend (Beginning Friday at 6pm)
Importance: High
SWAN Library Staff:
Please be aware, this weekend we will be performing scheduled maintenance on the SWAN Symphony Test server to resolve several issues and refresh configuration settings. The planned outage will begin this evening at 6pm, and the server may be offline throughout the weekend. During this time, WorkFlows will be unavailable for testing.
This outage will not affect any of the Millennium servers you're currently using for normal daily operations. This only affects our SirsiDynix Symphony servers.
We'll send additional SWANcoms prior to the maintenance and when the maintenance process concludes.
Thank you for your patience.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
A new batch of titles and items has been loaded. This will be the final batch loaded into SWAN Millennium Catalog.
Subject: Media On Demand 20150228
106 print titles
6 audio titles
1 video titles
113 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
A new batch of titles and items has been loaded. This will be the final batch loaded into SWAN Millennium Catalog.
Search subject: eMedia Library 20150228
25 print titles
11 audio titles
36 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
SWAN Library Staff:
Issues on the Encore and Production servers are now resolved. We will continue to monitor the situation throughout the day, but should you experience any issues that appear to be related, please contact us at help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net>, or you can reach our weekend support desk at 630.734.5153.
I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we worked toward a resolution.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
From: Steven Schlewitt
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 9:10 AM
To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net; swantech(a)list.swanlibraries.net
Subject: Millennium Slowness and Encore Outage - 2/28
Importance: High
SWAN Library Staff:
Please be aware, this morning we had experienced some slowness with our Millennium Production server, which had affected the client and classic catalog. That issue has since been resolved, however, we're still encountering an issue with the Encore Webpac. We're currently investigating the situation and will update everyone once a resolution is in-place.
Thank you,
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
SWAN Library Staff:
Please be aware, this morning we had experienced some slowness with our Millennium Production server, which had affected the client and classic catalog. That issue has since been resolved, however, we're still encountering an issue with the Encore Webpac. We're currently investigating the situation and will update everyone once a resolution is in-place.
Thank you,
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info