Weekly Update—August 20, 2014
New and Improved!
We are working through several projects recently approved by the Executive Committee. So far we’re pleased to share the following updates, setting changes, and housekeeping projects:
- The Soft Stall setting is now live with a 1 day window. This allows staff a window to capture locally available titles before opportunistic captures take place.
- The Outreach patron profile may now have up to 50 open holds. This is intended to facilitate book club and teacher collection program needs.
- As libraries have migrated in over the past 6 years, long overdue items were frequently not marked lost by the system during migration. We have updated all of those remaining open transactions to reflect the correct item status and generate bills. This affected over 10,000 item records across the consortium.
Speak Your Piece
We continue to plan the discussion for the regional roundtables. High interest topics so far include offering DVD transits, the ethics and local policy audit, and recent consortium policy updates and changes. We encourage you to submit requests for inclusion on the agendas or bring your ideas for other updates, changes, and improvements for on-the fly discussion. Frontline staff are encouraged to participate and share their perspectives!
Space is limited, so please register if you would like to participate. Participants will receive recommendations for area restaurants if you wish to continue community building over a meal after the scheduled meeting!
Committee News
The Cataloging Committee will meet on September 4, 2014 at 10am at the Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library.
Member News
The Greentown Public Library has reopened both branches. The final stages of the renovation are ongoing, but they are delighted to be open again and sharing their full collection with the consortium!
Migration News
The North Madison County Public Library migration has been postponed until October 17-21, 2014. A modified cataloging freeze is anticipated during that weekend. Further information will be forthcoming as available.
Upcoming Evergreen Indiana Training Opportunities
September 11
Basic Circulation, 9am-12pm, Indiana State Library, Room 428
Holds, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Indiana State Library, Room 428
September 18
Basic Cataloging, 9am-12pm, Indiana State Library, Room 428
Local Administration, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Indiana State Library, Room 428
October 28
Advanced Cataloging, Part I, 9am-12pm, Webinar
October 29
Advanced Cataloging, Part II, 9am-12pm, Webinar