IUG Conference - Suggested Topics
So you're thinking of proposing a program, are you? C'mon, do it! You know you want to. If you do you'll not only earn the respect and adulation of your peers, you could receive $50 off your registration. (Sorry, Lightning Rounds don't qualify for the discount.) Here are some of the hottest topics from last year:
- [Anything] 101: back to basics programs like “Loan Rule Determiner”, “Millennium Time Savers” and “Become a Create Lists Power User” were big hits.
- Data, Data, Data: there were great turnouts for sessions on Exporting to Excel, Using Google Analytics, and Using Regular Expressions.
- Automating Processes: sessions on load tables, using Perl/Expect and batch loading had great attendance.
Use the Browsable Topic List below for even more ideas.
Like last year we will have Preconference Tracks! We will be offering three different topical tracks during the preconference:
- Millennium 101: anything suitable for new users or those who need to get back to basics
- Managers’ Track: IT Planning, Budgeting, Cost recovery are all good topics for decision makers
- Beyond the ILS: mobile tech, social media integration, APIs – the coolest of the new
If you are considering presenting in any of these categories please consider presenting on the preconference day, Sunday April 15th.
The deadline to submit program proposals is Friday, November 4, 2011. All submitted programs will be reviewed by the Program Committee before being accepted. We have a finite number of program slots and will consider ALL proposals from IUG members and Innovative to get the most balanced overall program possible. Once again, all program, forum and poster session coordinators and co-presenters will receive a $50 discount off of their conference registration fee. NOTE: this does not apply to Lightning Round presenters.
If you want to give a program but aren't really sure about what's involved or how to proceed, write to any member of the Program Committee for advice.
Christine Rigda, IUG Vice-Chair
The University of Toledo
Aimee Fifarek, IUG Chair
Scottsdale Public Library
Sheryl Bissen
Grinnell College
Katie DuPraw
San Jose Public Library
Hong Ma
University of Miami
Sarah Simpson
Tulsa City-County Library
Michael Winecoff
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Browsable Topic List
- Basic module overviews for new/inexperienced users:
- Acquisitions: including setting up funds, claiming, electronic invoicing
- Serials: including electronic claiming, check in, holdings, routing, binding
- Cataloging: including authorities, working with the editor, headings reports, getting records into the system
- Circulation: including loan rules, notices, holds
- Interlibrary Loan: How To, basic setup and use
- WebPAC: step-by-step set-up instructions
- "But our OLD system could..." -- finding out how to do things, enhancement proposals, etc.
- Customer Service @ III, HelpDesk, Customer service manager, Implementation specialists, Service Commitments, Things III Staff will do for you
- Exporting and manipulating data
- Fiscal close and management of finances within Acquisitions
- How to configure your system - Tips and Tricks
- If I could share one thing with new users it would be
- Improving Millennium performance - general maintenance
- Making best use of CSDirect, Innovative Documentation and User Manual
- Millennium Create Lists
- Millennium, Encore, Sierra, Oh My! – What does it all mean for new users and implementation
- Statistics
- Survey/summary of capabilities and best practices within Innovative system
- Training tips: Wikis, Camtasia, Captivate, etc.
- Upgrading to a new release - best practices
- What I wish I’d known (or asked)--Panel of seasoned Millennium users
- Workflow patterns and issues
- WWWOptions for beginners
- Your IUG—We are I-U-G description of resources available and leadership opportunities. IUG list with searchable archives, website, enhancements process, IUG Conference, informal networking and one-on-one assistance from other users
- Acquisitions and cataloging interaction
- Acquisitions and ERM interaction
- Acquisition topics that cover intermediate to advanced usage
- Acquisitions for smaller libraries
- Acquiring foreign language materials, entry and display of alternate character set
- Archiving order records using Microsoft Access or other methods
- Bindery module and bindery interface (e.g., Able and Lars)
- Centralized online selection and ordering using Millennium Acquisitions
- Creating ledgers
- Edifact ordering
- Electronic claiming
- Electronic Invoicing
- Extended Approval Interface
- Fiscal close and management of finances
- Fund setup, fund reports and general fund structures
- Edifact ordering
- Invoicing
- Millennium Acquisitions, use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Millennium Serials, use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Output to financial systems, set-up, local programming, use of, etc.
- Patron-driven Acquisitions
- Print templates for purchase orders and routing slips
- Reconciliation of Millennium Acquisitions and external systems
- Record creation (checkins/items/orders) using locally created load profiles
- Reports in Acquisitions (financial, vendor, etc.)
- Selector/Recommendations functions
- Serials topics that cover intermediate to advance usage
- Third-party vendors (e.g., Datatel, OCLC PromptCat)
- Workflow issues
- AACR3: Resource Description and Access - Development and Implementation
- Anything related to Authority Control, Database cleanup, Zen of Database Maintenance
- Authority control: do it yourself vs. using a vendor
- Authority control: best practices
- Authority maintenance: what kinds of changes are made once authorities are downloaded into the system to make them work with the local collection
- Automated authority processing
- Cataloging "How-tos" and technical topics
- Cataloging and acquisitions interaction
- Cataloging and FTS
- Cataloging basics: how to get started
- Cataloging codes information
- Cataloging topics that cover intermediate to advance usage
- Cataloging workflow, "how we do it well"
- Connexion macro-building
- Creating bib and item records
- Database cleanup
- Database maintenance using global update, etc
- Diacritics (in Millennium and the WebPAC)
- Fixed field explanations
- FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and its potential application utilizing Innovative system
- FRBR and/or RDA in general and implementation
- Future of online catalogs
- Global Update for authority control
- Headings reports in Millennium
- How Global Update differs from Rapid Update
- How Millennium Cataloging works with LTI
- Inventory and clean up
- Label printing
- Location codes
- Managing the switch to OCLC's Connexion
- MARC 21 holdings, overview, how to export holdings information, suggestions for coding/improving the display of holdings information, etc.
- MARC batch loading tips and tricks, ftp and load MARC files, load tables, 949 command lines, how batch loading improves access to collections, etc.
- MarcEdit
- Metadata Builder
- Metadata for non-book materials
- Millennium Cataloging macros
- Modify Group in cataloging
- Numerals: filing of Roman numerals, numerals in non-Arabic numbers
- Open source cataloging tools
- Planning and implementing E-Journal Holdings update, choice of single record vs. separate records, staff training, etc.
- Series tracing
- Spine label printing
- Storing and parsing non-MARC records on Millennium
- Technical Services - putting it all together (Acquisitions, Cataloging, Serials, ERM modules)
- Unicode questions, not just from Innovative's side (Internationalization)
- URL checkers
- URL maintenance and use of the Millennium URL Checker Program
- Using III system to support inventory control at an off-site depository
- Using locations vs. prefix in call numbers
- Working with 3rd party cataloging and processing vendors, such as OCLC PromptCat
- Alternate uses for Patron API
- Automated patron loads from Banner or other methods
- Automation in Circulation: Self Check, AMH, other vending machine applications
- Booking Module: use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Circulation "Best Practices"
- Circulation in a Consortium environment
- Circulation parameters
- Circulation statistics: what and how to collect
- Circulation 101 for new users
- Beginning level system administration
- Those without administration authority
- Circulation topics that cover intermediate to advance usage
- Circulation training: Wikis, Camtasia, Captivate, etc.
- Consortium statistics and reports
- Copyright management and E-reserves
- Core competencies for circulation staff
- Course reserve: adding, managing, removing course/item records, managing online reserves, codes, ccodes, templates, etc.
- Courtesy notices, set-up, sample texts, use of, etc.
- Customer service
- Debt collection
- E-books/e-resources and circulation
- E-Reserves and PDAs
- E-Reserves: nuts and bolts
- E-Reserves: workflows/cycles
- Express Lane: tips and tricks to enhance its capabilities
- Holds management and reports
- How to do inventory without the Percon readers
- Integrating other e-reserve software (e.g. Docutek ERes) with MilCirc
- Interfacing with courseware vendors, especially for electronic reserves without using the III e-reserve module
- Interlibrary loan module: use of, training, tips and tricks for efficiency, etc.
- Loan rules, loan rule audits and clean ups
- Management of Circulation: staff/student employees
- Patriot Act, privacy, and patrons: files retained, My Millennium, My Reading History, My Preferred Searches, and the server,
- Printing and e-mailing circulation notices using different character sets (Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.), using new technology (i.e. switching from dot matrix to laser printer, etc.), or using third party software to print postal barcodes, etc.
- Reserves (print and electronic): how to, tips and tricks
- RFID implementations
- Self-checkout: 3M self checks/Other systems and the interface with Millennium
- Small libraries and Millennium
- Teleforms
- Using Collection HQ and Millennium
- Using RSS for Circulation and Program Registration alerts
- Working with the ASRS module and automated retrieval system
- E-journal management
- ERM (Electronic Resource Management): Implementation
- ERM: Implementing with other ILS systems
- ERM: Basics for beginners; in-depth for advanced users (perhaps even a public library perspective)
- ERM: coverage load issues (CASE, Serial Solutions, etc)
- ERM: e-book tracking
- ERM: management
- ERM: nuts and bolts sessions
- ERM: other uses
- ERM: Statistics
- ERM: WebPAC integration
- ERM: Workflow of setting up resource, contact, license records, etc.
- Media Management
- Practical examples from e-resources management
- OpenURL Link Resolver (WebBridge)
- Research Pro: how to implement
- Statistics for electronic resources (paid vs. free resources; aggregated titles, etc.)
- Update on loading e-journal holding
- WebBridge: basic how-to setup, implementation
- WebBridge: creative uses for non-journal items (pointing to staff pages, maps, locations, etc.)
- WebBridge: hands on (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced)
- WebBridge: Linking in the WebPAC
- WebBridge: linking syntax, configuring field selectors and datatests
- XML harvester and associated products
- Customization
- INN-Reach API
- Multiple libraries (special, public, academic) cooperating & using a single database
- Multiple IP software
- Print templates for transit and paging slips
- SCAT table implementation in a consortium
- Systems Administration
- Training tips for Central and Member sites
- Visiting Patron
- Web Statistics/Reports through Google Analytics
- "Advanced" create lists, global update and database cleanup
- Automating reports from Create Lists using free/low cost software applications
- Circulation statistics
- Collection development statistics
- Create Lists and Global Update
- Creating queries in Create Lists for different record types (including a refresher on regular expressions)
- ERM and statistics
- How to get better vendor reports and statistics
- How to interpret data/statistics to help a library's decision-making
- Millennium Statistics module (all levels)
- Regular expressions in Create Lists
- SCAT tables
- Scripting and Web Management Reports
- Setting up codes to run better statistics
- Tips and tricks for the best use of Create Lists function
- Usage statistics
- Web analysis: Google Analytics and others
- Cost-sharing
- Effective ways to get more reports out of Millennium
- Environmental scanning
- Google Analytics: more details on individual libraries' use of, technical details
- How-to sessions (e.g., Reporting)
- Identifying locally important collections (faculty authors or local history)
- Microsoft Excel: Innovations using Excel for exported files
- Moving to Millennium modules -- how training was organized, what problems to expect, avoid, etc.
- Overview of available reports and ways to customize them
- Reports: creative and useful reports and the benefits gained from them
- Various software used with Millennium to automate reporting from Create Lists
- Use of Management Reports and/or different ways to get turnover rates
- Use of Millennium Statistics: basic to some interesting reports that can be generated
- Using Collection HQ
- Web Management Reports and Field Statistics in Collection Development
- Web Management Reports: in general
- Web Management Reports: for collection development (age of collection, etc.)
- Web Management Reports for non-systems people.
- What is MilAdmin and how are we using it?
- XML and SUSHI statistics
- APIs: what are they, what do they make possible, what do we hope a Sierra API contributors environment will look like?
- Applications scripting (Perl, Expect, etc.) to automate functions
- Automating workflows
- Using Windows based products to automate functions
- Backup
- Cleaning up an aging system (codes, etc.)
- Continued advanced training for new Systems librarians/Administrators
- Core Competencies for Staff (III skills, tech skills, and others)
- Data Exchange: record loading in Millennium
- Data manipulation with MarcEdit (basic/advanced)
- FTS, troubleshooting, etc.
- Google Analytics and Java string in print templates (technical details)
- How to make the most out of your system
- If I could share one thing with you it would be...
- Innovative Helpdesk 101 – A view of troubleshooting from the III side
- Keeping track of enhancements in new releases -- what to do if you can't go through all of the great new things at the same time that you upgrade
- LDAP integration
- Load table nuts and bolts (for both libraries with and without load profile training)
- Local system administration documentation techniques, procedures, and best practices (including logins and passwords)
- Macros
- Mature system – How to make sure you are taking advantage of all the bells and whistles availabl
- Migrating from Turnkey to Software Only, pros & cons, lessons learned
- Millennium Login Manager, settings and managing them
- Models for shared systems and technologies, cost sharing, Sierra apps, loaning app
- Moving from character based to Millennium in one or more modules
- Nuts and bolts of Z39.50
- One-card systems, how libraries work with their campus IT departments to interface the card system with III
- ORACLE, Perl, and other high level systems procedures
- Perl basics
- Printer/Printing boot camp
- Printing in different modules
- Printing tips and tricks; diacritics & foreign languages (CJK); types of printers
- Reviewing system tables
- Revised workflows taking advantage of Innovative products and the changing marketplace. (e.g. Changes to Technical Services workflows to adapt to changing vendor market, Edifact ordering, e-books
- Scripting
- Security issues
- Setting up Millennium for remote use
- Sierra – What IUGers would like to see
- Streamlining Millennium processes (with macros, templates, substitution phrases)
- Surviving system administration for small academic libraries
- System Access Administration module
- System administration information (i.e. everything you need to touch to add a library, exactly how do some functions work, system maintenance, etc.)
- Technical information on III's database schema and file layout beyond what is given in the turnkey interface
- Thin client technology
- Tips for keeping skills up to date, your own and those of your staff
- Tips for smooth management of the many systems and programs, including III that are the reality of the workplace
- Tools to maintain initials/authorizations/logins
- Troubleshooting system problems
- Using III server as main web server
- Using regular expressions in and out of Innovative
- Web Access Management
- Why we went back to turnkey
- Working with URL Checker
- Working with User Manual
- Your IUG as a powerful resource
- Advanced wwwoptions
- Briefcit.html forms and display in the WebPAC
- Customized forms and tokens
- Designing multilingual WebPACs
- ERM web interface customization and usability
- Examples of custom bibliographic display in WebPAC Pro
- Making good use of WebPAC Pro example sets
- Mobile catalog implementation: options/functionalities in mobile context
- My Millennium & staff OPAC; staff use of My Millennium
- Next generation catalogs, futurecasting
- Open source products with WebPAC (LibraryThing, VUfind, XC, etc.)
- RSS Feedbuilder
- Research Pro
- Scoping
- Scripting tips and tricks
- Sorting search results when using different languages (different alphabets)
- SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) in WebPAC
- System administration
- Usability of next generation interfaces
- Use of Perl, PHP, Cold Fusion and/or other scripting tools external to III software to manipulate and redisplay data from the WebPAC
- Web Access Management
- Web Analytics, click analytics and usability studies
- Webmaster functions
- WebPAC options, designs, redesigns, customization, adapting example sets
- Webpubdef - customizing
- Why we still need the OPAC when we have next generation discovery tools
- WWWOptions for intermediate to advance users
- Academic Libraries Consortium forum
- Academic Libraries forum
- Acquisitions forum
- AirPAC forum
- Cataloging forum
- Circulation forum (academic and public)
- Consortium (academic and public) forum
- Corporate Libraries forum
- Course Reserves forum
- Customer Services forum
- ECommerce forum
- ERM forum
- Encore forum
- Express Lane forum
- Floating Collections forum
- INN-Reach forum
- Interlibrary loan users forum
- K-12 School Libraries forum
- Load Tables forum
- Marketing forum
- Open forum on hardware
- Oracle forum
- Print Templates forum
- PromptCat Users forum
- Public Libraries forum
- Public Library Consortium forum
- Serials forum
- Special Libraries forum
- Systems management forum
- ADA accessibility and III products
- AirPAC
- ASRS (Automatic Storage and Retrieval Interface)
- Bridging the gap between IT professionals and library professionals and reconciling the needs of each
- Circa
- Content Pro
- Digitization (Media Management)
- Documentation (provided by Innovative and available through the Clearinghouse)
- E-Commerce
- Encore and next generation interfaces
- Encore: customization
- Encore: implementation
- Good approaches to handling record-keeping, monitoring, etc.
- Help for institutions still using character-based
- How to collaborate with Google, Facebook, Twitter
- International users: different things they have done with their WebPACs
- IUG Clearinghouse -- Primer for new users and contributors
- Keeping up with changes in new releases
- Library 2.0 and patron empowerment: RSS, blogs, social computing, wikis, community feedback, ratings, reviews
- Link server applications other than WebBridge and their use with III
- Management and administration of staff in automation environment
- Mashups
- Monographic Holdings product
- OpenURL
- Portal Integration and single sign-on
- Privacy issues and the ILS
- Public and academic libraries joint ventures and how setup issues are managed
- RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
- Research Pro
- Sessions for reference librarians
- Social networking
- Strategic Planning and the ILS
- Symposia
- Systems Department staffing and training issues
- Technology as it is changing libraries
- Testing system parameter changes
- Text messaging and IM services
- Topics geared toward shared systems
- Training discussion group
- Training modules or tools developed to assist staff in learning how to do various tasks of low to moderate complexity in the system
- Training issues
- Understanding the current and future role of the ILS
- Usability testing
- Using III system to enhance bibliographic instruction, reference services, etc.
- Using wikis and other content management systems
- Working around known issues
- WorldCat Local
- XML products / XML for Librarians
Pre-Conference
Cataloging and Authorities
Circulation and Interlibrary Loan
E-Tools: ERM, WebBridge, etc.
INN-Reach
Lists and Statistics
Management and Reports
Service and Systems
WebPAC
Forums - Please consider very specialized forums for Birds of a Feather Sessions
Other Programs, Products