On the Fourth Day of (insert your favorite holiday) ----SWAN elves gave to me

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Festivus, the Winter Solstice, or none of the above – SWAN would like to share 12 days of “gifts” with you.

SWAN thought we would share with our membership a number of benefits of the upcoming migration.

First and foremost the number of users and items will be increasing:

              MAGIC patron count      69,978

              LINC patron count         148,938

              Total to be added          218,916                 Grand total patron count for the new SWAN:    1,225,722  

              MAGIC item count          728,326

              LINC item count             1,352475

              Total to be added          2,080,801            Grand total item count for the new SWAN:        8,619,945

The increase in the number of SWAN patrons will have a positive effect at the Circulation desks of all the SWAN member libraries (including LINC and MAGIC) due to the decrease in the number of Non-SWAN reciprocal borrowers that will need to be registered.   Additionally, the increase of the total number of items in the SWAN database will allow us to access a much larger collection and result in holds being filled faster.  There should also be a reduction in the number of ILL materials that need to be requested from outside of the newly expanded consortia.   One of the real boons to staff will be these new patrons will be placing their own holds on SWAN.  Currently, these holds are placed  by library staff and require special handling by the lending library when being processed as ILL_LIBS holds.   In addition,  all the materials being routed among the SWAN libraries will be routed for delivery using the standard sticky label and will not require an ILDS label as some of them did previously.  

All in all these new numbers will expedite procedures at the Circulation desk, but more importantly be of great benefit to all SWAN patrons.  The patrons of the newly expanded SWAN with its 8 million items will be able to place their own holds, monitor and suspend their requests, and renew material using Enterprise.     

Kate Boyle
Member Services Manager
kate@swanlibraries.net • (630)326-8617

SWAN Library Services
800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559
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