Weekly Update – January 31, 2012

2012 Evergreen International Conference

Today is the last day for Early Bird Registration! Register today and save $15 on attendance!

Vendors can save $100 by registering to exhibit today!

A list of programs and descriptions is available on the blog!

eReader policies for the OverDrive Committee

The eIndiana Digital OverDrive Committee has had many inquiries from eIndiana Digital Consortium members regarding local library or consortium-wide policy on loaning eReaders. Evergreen Indiana and eIndiana Digital Consortium do not have a consortium-wide eReader policy but we would like to collect samples of policies each individual library has about loaning eReaders. The committee has decided to post them at the URL below so that interested eIndiana Digital Consortium and Evergreen Indiana members may consult them for ideas before establishing their own local policies. Please send sample policies to the Evergreen Indiana Coordinator, sborger@library.in.gov.

Circulation Module

Prefix field has been added back to the option fields upon registering a patron. Thank you to those who reported this issue.

Did you know that you can gather any information you want from Patrons or Items and track it in the Evergreen ILS? Setting up a Statistical Category is an easy and effective way to gather information on patrons or items that aren’t otherwise tracked in the system. Documentation on setting up a Stat Cat below.

Staff Training Documents > Reports Module > Statistical Categories Editor

Example: Some libraries serve several townships and want to track patrons from each township. They follow the instructions for creating a Patron Stat Cat and then put in a helpdesk ticket to have a report created that they can run to get their information. Upon registering a new patron, staff members can choose their Stat Cat response at the bottom of the patron registration screen and run the report created by the helpdesk to get their responses.