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MAIN CONFERENCE - Thursday, October 28th                        POST CONFERENCE - Friday, October 29th


Morning sessions will be held in Kagin Commons/Hill Ballroom.    [ campus map ]

8:30am

Registration  
-Sign In / Pick up meeting packet
-Coffee and donuts available

9:00am

Welcome
    Paddy Satzer, Chair - MN IUG Steering Committee

9:15am

Beyond Release 2005 -- Innovative and the future
   Betsy Graham, Vice President for Product Management, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

We've heard a lot about the new products and enhancements that are available in Innovative's current software releases but what about future releases? What technology and library trends is Innovative looking at as they plan for system changes that are several years out.  Betsy Graham, Vice President for Product Management at Innovative Interfaces, will discuss many of these trends and how they may affect our library system in the future.

10:00am

Back to the present: An Overview of New Innovative Products
   Mary Chevreau, Director of North American Sales for Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
   Diane Lewin, Regional Representative for Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

Mary Chevreau and Diane Lewin will highlight many of newer products and enhancements that became available with the release of Innovative's Millennium Silver this last summer.

10:30am

Break

10:45am

Creating An Online Training Program for Your Millennium System:
The University of Colorado at Boulder Experience
   Holley Long, Systems Librarian for Digital Initiatives, University of Colorado at Boulder

Most libraries are challenged with keeping staff up-to-date on the many constantly changing systems that they use. This session will highlight an online staff training program created at the University of Colorado at Boulder to keep their staff trained on the Millennium system. Holley Long, CU-Boulder's Systems Librarian for Digital Initiatives, will share what their motivation was for using this online training method, the steps they took in creating their program and how it was received by their library staff. She will also discuss the advantages and "challenges" to this type of training program and will talk about the differences they've experienced in keeping staff trained and what, if anything, they would have done differently.

11:30am

Lunch

Soup, Salad and Sandwich buffet

Luncheon Speaker (12:30-1:00)
Peter Pearson, President of the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, will talk about how to create and nurture a successful library fundraising program.

Afternoon sessions will be held in the Olin/Rice Science Complex.    [ campus map ]

PLEASE NOTE: Below is a preliminary list of concurrent sessions. Additional sessions are in the works and may be added.

1:30pm

Concurrent Sessions #1        

Attendees will choose to attend one of the following sessions:   

2:30pm

Concurrent Sessions #2        

Attendees will choose to attend one of the following sessions:   

3:20pm

Afternoon Break

3:30pm

Concurrent Sessions #3

Attendees will choose to attend one of the following sessions:   

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POST CONFERENCE - Friday, October 29th

7:45am

Registration  
-Sign In / Pick up meeting packet
-Coffee and donuts available

8:00-
10:00am

Millennium Statistics - Corey Seeman, Assistant Dean for Resource & Systems
Mgmt, Univ of Toledo

Session runs 8:00-10:00am.

With Millennium Statistics, III libraries have a great tool that can help them create a large number of statistical reports with great ease. This session will give an overview of the features and functions of Innovative's Millennium Statistics.

Millennium Cataloging - Amy Reinhold, Catalog Librarian, Bethel University Library; and Miki Scholl, University of St Thomas' Schonecker Law Library

Session runs 9:00am-12:15pm.

This session will give you an overview of many of the tools and resources available within Millennium cataloging. We'll explore MilCat's graphical interface with its full-text editor and demonstrate the ease in which basic cataloging tasks such as creating new records and moving or transferring records can be done. We'll also talk about the power of such tools as Millennium create lists and global/rapid update.

10:15-12:15pm

Using Simulation Software to Create
Online Training Tools - Holley Long, Systems Librarian for Digital Initiatives, Univ of Colorado at Boulder

Session runs 10:15am-12:15pm.

Focusing on simulation software (Camtasia, RapidBuilder, Robodemo, etc.), this session will discuss how you can set up an online training program at your library.

12:15pm

Lunch

1:15-4:15pm

Time for a change? An Overview of OPAC Redesign - Charles Gimon, Web Coordinator, Minneapolis Public Library; and Deb Bergeron, Systems Administrator/User Support, CLIC

Session runs 1:15-4:15pm.

Recent releases of Millennium have made the process of redesigning your OPAC much easier. Focusing on their recent experiences in redesigning the web catalog interfaces at Minneapolis Public and at CLIC, the presenters of this session will talk about using such tools as Macromedia Dreamweaver in redesigning your public catalog, setting up and working in the staging area, working with wwwoptions and style sheets.

Creating Perl Scripts for Use with your System - Don Zhou, Systems Librarian, William Mitchell College of Law

Session runs 1:15-4:15pm.

Many of us create custom reports, new accessions lists and more using review files and Perl scripts. Perl scripts create valuable resources in a matter of minutes rather than hours. This session will introduce the novice to creating basic Perl scripts that can be used with your library system.