WWWoptions, Style Sheets and the WebPAC (Part 1 & Part 2)
Don Zhou, Systems Librarian, William Mitchell
College of Law
With recent upgrades to the III software, libraries
now have much more control over the "look and feel" of their WebPac
as well much of the WebPac's functionality. This is controlled not only
by the html code in WebPac webpages, but also by WWWoptions settings and
the way your style sheets are designed and implemented. The first part of
this session will walk you through the interconnectedness between WWWoptions,
stylesheets and webpages. Topics that will be covered include discussion
of static vs dynamic pages, the use of tokens, implementing style sheets
with Innovative-defined classes and the options for creating locally-defined
classes, as well as many other WebPac design issues.
Part 1 of this two-part session will focus on using WWWoptions
to control general display, static vs. dynamic pages, and customizable forms.
Part 2 of this session will build on the topics covered in
part one by covering the use of Style Sheets and setting up the pureFTP
client.
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Global
Update
Paddy Satzer, Associate Director of Technical
Services, Univ of St Thomas Law Library
Global Update is a powerful tool available in Millennium Cataloging which
can be used for so much more than its character-based predecessor 'Globally
Update Headings'. During this session we'll walk through the basic steps
of any global update session, then we'll look at some examples of how it
can be used on different problems and record types.
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Getting to Know SCAT (SCAT tables, that is...)
Bob Suderman, Library Director, Bethel College
Library, Bethel College
The Statistical Category Analysis Table (SCAT) in
the Innovative system links call number ranges with subject categories and
allows for the generation of meaningful statistical reports based on the
call numbers of items. Using the CLIC consortium's experience, this session
will review the basic rules used by the SCAT table and the process of testing
and discovery of how the SCAT table works. Examples of how the table can
be used will also be given.
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An Introduction to Millennium Create Lists
Morgan Wilson, Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian, Law Library,
Hamline University School of Law
The Create List functionality is now available in
all Millennium modules making this functionality even more accessible to
all library staff. This session will give an overview of Millennium Create
Lists and look at what's different and what's better in the Millennium version
of this resource as compared to the text-based version. The focus of the
session will be on exploring the functionality of the software, rather than
giving specialized guidance about list creation strategies.
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Booking Basics: An Overview of the Materials Booking Module
Becky Schleicher, Circulation Supervisor, Northwestern
College
This session will show you the basic
"ins and outs" of Millennium's Booking feature. Learn how to book
library materials, equipment, videos, and even classrooms. The session will
cover essential setup needs and simple step-by-step instructions for booking
materials for a variety of opportunities.
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Scanning Your Way into the New Milennium: Using Mil Media for e-Reserves
Mike Bloomberg, Systems Librarian, Augsburg
College
Millennium Media has many advantages for the library considering
offering electronic reserves. It provides an Electronic Course Reserves
module which allows e-reserves materials to be associated with course
records and copyright, and patron authentication provides the tools libraries
need for full electronic course reserve management. This session will
address the advantages and offer practical advice about how to effectively
use the Media module.
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Tracking the Wily
User: Using the Catalog to Discover User Behavior
Mollie Freier, Reference Librarian, Carleton
College
Our Innovative systems collect
a great deal of information on how patrons search the OPAC, and this information
can teach us a great deal about how patrons use (and mis-use) the catalog.
This session will explain how we can all mine this data and how we can
use this information to create tools to better serve our patrons.
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Teaching INNOPAC Searching to Library Users
Jan Malcheski, Reference Librarian, Archbishop
John Ireland Library, University of St. Thomas
In an academic library - as is the case in most libraries
- educating library users in the efficient and effective use of the public
catalog is an important part of our job; doing it well (and consistently)
results in happier and more empowered users! Like most current
online public catalogs, ours has moved online into a very different world
than the offline world in which they were, slowly, over decades, cunningly
built to reside - a different world made up of Googles and Amazon.coms.
This presentation looks at how we teach patrons to use the Innovative public
catalog. We will also delve into such issues as how we can catalog with
the user experience in mind and what we can learn from Amazon.com and
Google to improve our public catalog.
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Patron-Initiated Holds/Book Cart
Mike McClellan, Circulation Supervisor, Mpls
Public Library
Doug Guthrie, Automation Coordinator, St. Paul Public Library
Join us for a demonstration of St Paul Public
Library's new Book Cart option which allows patrons to batch holds and place
them all at once. The "Book Cart" feature is an alternative to
logging in or having to re-key patron information for each hold. Following
the demo, a discussion of problems and potential solutions with the Innovative
holds feature and electronic paging will occur. This session is aimed at
any library that uses the patron-initiated holds feature - public and academic.
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VDX and III: Making Them Mesh - A Panel Discussion
Deb Bergeron, Cooperating Libraries in Consortium
(CLIC)
Ted Hathaway, Mpls Public Library
Agnes Lee, Document
Delivery Coordinator, MINITEX
Many libraries throughout the state are moving
to the new Minnesota statewide system for ILL - VDX. Join us for a
panel discussion on how several MN IUG libraries have adjusted workflow
and made system changes in their Innovative systems to make these two separate
systems work together with the least impact on library staff and library
users. Panel members are from CLIC consortium, Minneapolis Public
Library, and MINITEX. The panel will consist of both manager-level and hands-on
staff members to provide you a wide-array of expertise.
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Electronic Resource Management in Millennium
Ted Fons, Product Manager, Innovative Interfaces,
Inc.
Electronic Resource Management is a tool
for digital resource integration and license management. ERM replaces the
need for libraries to build separate databases to keep track of their electronic
resource licensing and purchasing details, integrating the information with
the Millennium system and enabling data to be conveniently accessed as needed.
It effectively controls subscription and licensing information for licensed
resources such as e-journals, Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases,
and full-text databases. This session will give an overview of this newly
available product from III.
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Innovative's Oracle Option
Steve Waage, System Administrator/System Support,
Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLIC)
In addition to it's own proprietary database
software, Innovative offers libraries the option of choosing to implement
their Millennium system on an Oracle database. This option gives libraries
additional flexibility in viewing and manipulating their database. This
session will give an overview of the structure of the III Oracle tables
and give an introduction to Oracle SQL syntax. We will also give a demonstration
of the possibilities by doing some basic querying of the BIB, ITEM and PATRON
records in the Oracle tables.
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Creating
e-Journal Records for Innopac Using MailMerge / MarcEdit
Michaela Brenner, Bibliographic Records Librarian,
Carleton College
MarcEdit can be an invaluable tool in performing
database maintenance tasks. This session will demonstrate how to create
basic MARC records for e-journal title access in the public catalog. At
Carleton College, MARC records were created for 103 LION e-journals for
addition to their public catalog using the LION title/ISSN/URL
list, Excel, MailMerge and MarcEdit. We'll also discuss how this process
could be adapted for use in creating records for selected other e-journal
databases.
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Library
Directors' Forum
Facilitator: Chris Olson, Executive Director,
Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLIC)
This session for library directors is an opportunity
to sit down with Mary Chevreau, Innovative
Interfaces' Director of North American Sales, and Diane Lewin, Regional
Representative for Innovative Interfaces, for an informal
discussion of Innovative-related issues.
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