SWAN Member Libraries:
The May Committee of the Whole meeting now has the Executive Director PowerPoint presentations available online. This PowerPoint provides some ILS migration with SirsiDynix, along with some other SWAN projects underway. The link below goes directly to the PowerPoint.
http://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2014-05-13/SWA…
Our Quarterly meeting is next week, Thursday June 5th at 9:30am at the RAILS Burr Ridge office. We will be posting the meeting information on Monday.
Regards,
Aaron
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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Everyone-
Today I logged into the FirstSearch Administrative account for every SWAN library and updated the links, when necessary, to your scoped catalog.
Previously these links were addressed to the former catalog address of swan.mls.lib.il.us . This address has now been updated to
http://catalog.swanlibraries.net/search~Sx (the x being your individual scoping code). The updating at OCLC of these changes usually takes overnight. You should be able to test these links tomorrow in FirstSearch. I updated the ISBN search to the new catalog address also. This updating should now allow patrons and other libraries to quickly verify the status of your item in the SWAN catalog, just as they did previously when using FirstSearch.
If anyone should have any questions regarding this, don't hesitate to call me. Everyone have a great Memorial Day.
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
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RAILS has requested that SWAN forward the following message to our members -
June 4 RAILS Member Update
The next RAILS Member Update will be held on Wednesday, June 4, from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Join us at a videoconference location that is convenient for you. Participating videoconference locations include the RAILS Burr Ridge service center, Aurora Public Library, Kankakee Public Library, New Lenox Public Library District, and more. The meeting will also be available to view via streaming. Executive Director Dee Brennan will host the meeting from the Galesburg Public Library.
This will be your first opportunity to hear Dee Brennan and RAILS staff reveal RAILS' major plans for FY2015. Topics include: support for RAILS' four shared online catalogs and other RAILS-area consortia, member engagement, RAILS' cooperative purchasing program, eRead Illinois, digitization, delivery, continuing education and consulting, and more. Illinois State Library staff will also discuss potential digitization grants for libraries in FY2015 and the recent statewide delivery advisory committee report. You will also have time to catch up with colleagues in attendance and have opportunities to share your feedback and ask questions.
(If you are viewing via online streaming, you may submit questions and comments to feedback(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:feedback@railslibraries.info> at any time during the meeting.) For an agenda<http://static.librarylearning.info/event_documents/ZjsVCzGCQ7Q.pdf>, and more information, see: www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=17091<http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=17091>.
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 Libraries:
Below is an email from Veronda Pitchford, Director of Membership Development and Resource Sharing.
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Thank you for being a member of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS).
We would like to invite RAILS LLSAP members to participate in the EBSCO database discount offers or, renew current EBSCO subscriptions.
1. Information about the EBSCO database options is attached to this email as a pdf.
Subscriptions for this year will run from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.
2. Additionally, EBSCO is offering Novelist Select to RAILS members at a 20% discount.
Below is a link to more information about Novelist Select:
http://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/our-products/novelist-select
NoveList Select turns your existing catalog into a place for book discovery, adding reader-focused features such as reading recommendations, series information, book reviews, book jackets, and more directly into the catalog.
The deadline to submit orders to EBSCO is Friday, June 13th, 2014.
If you have any questions or need more information regarding pricing for the EBSCO database discount offers please contact:
Matt Antonucci
Account Executive
EBSCO Information Services
10 Estes Street, Ipswich, MA 01938 USA
phone:(800)653-2726 ext 2356
fax: (978)356-5640
mantonucci(a)ebsco.com
Thank you! Stay tuned for more information on group purchasing discounts available to RAILS LLSAP members.
Yours in library love,
Veronda Pitchford
Director, Membership Development and Resource Sharing
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5119
Fax: 630.734.5050
veronda.pitchford(a)railslibraries.info
http://www.railslibraries.info
The River Forest PL will close at 2pm on Monday May 19th due to a burst water pipe. The library will re-open on Tuesday May 20th.
Renee Clanton
SWAN Member Services Consultant
renee.clanton(a)railslibraries.info
Phone: 630.734.5169
Fax: 630.734.5056
Open a ticket >>>>> help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net>
SWAN Website >>>>> http://support.swanlibraries.net<http://support.swanlibraries.net/>
SWAN Members:
Just a reminder that the SWAN Board Election voting will close this Friday, May 23rd at 5pm. Please be sure to get your vote in by then for our one vacancy.
The election poll can be found at the following link, and on the front page of the SWAN website as a News Item:
http://support.swanlibraries.net/news/2014-05-05/swan-board-election-polls-…
Thank you for your participation,
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
