[SWANcom] SWAN ILS Committee: Overview of Work to Date, Plus Seating Available for Demos & Streaming

To All SWAN Member Libraries: The SWAN ILS Committee wanted to provide you all a summary of the work performed to-date on our search and evaluation of our next integrated library system (ILS) software. The attached memo provides brief background on the initial vendors and ILS under consideration, how these was narrowed during the process to the three SWAN will have software demonstrations for October 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, & 11 at our Burr Ridge headquarters. Seats are still available for anyone interested in attending! Please refer to the memo sent out on Monday and register online using the Library Learning, aka "L2", website: http://www.librarylearning.info/?LibSys=SWAN Our three vendors have some video tutorials and online material that we have made available online in our Member's Only portion of our website. Please use your L2 account and password to access them: http://support.swanlibraries.net/content/vendor-tutorials SWAN will provide online streaming for the Main Meeting Room sessions. The test link to the Webex session is on the webpage below. We encourage you to try the test today if you plan on watching the streaming as our ability to assist you will be limited during the demo days themselves. http://support.swanlibraries.net/content/demo-live-web-streaming Regards, Aaron Aaron Skog SWAN Executive Director 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5122 Fax: 630.734.5056 aaron.skog@railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net