You know that there are New 19 libraries migrating to SWAN...you may even be one of them. But do you feel like you're ready for the go-live in 2018? Do you know when the go-live is? SWAN has been preparing a number of ways to keep the membership and new libraries informed about the migration process, including a newsletter, content on our support site, visits to libraries, and now we're including Q&A sessions. Bring every query or comment you have, or that staff have been wondering, and we'll give you answers and explanations.

Any staff are welcomt to join one or all of these Q&A sessions. An agenda will loosely be based on the following topics: a timeline dive, testing prep and communications for testing procedures, the full migration training schedule, task forces, as well as an open question and answer session. Find out more event info using the L2 links below:

Wednesday, November 1 at 9:30 a.m. in the RAILS Burr Ridge Meeting Room: https://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=25779

Wednesday, January 10: https://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=25981

Wednesday, March 7: http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=25983

Wednesday, April 4: http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=25984

Update: The policy load has completed as expected. The next policy load is scheduled for Monday, October 30th, from 4:00am–7:00am.

SWAN Library Staff—

We are nearing our first New 19 Migration Project Milestone! On Monday, October 23rd and Monday, October 30th from 4:00am–7:00am, SirsiDynix will be adding new library policies to SWAN's production server. While there is no downtime associated with this work, our policy loader will be performing a series of HIRs to complete the process. During this time, anyone logged into WorkFlows will be kicked off of the server as the system refreshes. We ask that you refrain from using WorkFlows during this time, but if you must be logged in, be aware that you may lose connectivity and will need to re-establish your connection to the server if you are logged out. This work will conclude by 7:00am on both days and we will send confirmation when the work is completed.

---Resolved at 2:45pm on 10/18---

We’ve received confirmation from SirsiDynix Support that the outage has been resolved. It appears to have been related to an issue with the EDS (EBSCO Discovery Service) integration, which ultimately resulted in a crash of the Enterprise servers for some EDS-subscribing customers. SirsiDynix has corrected the issue, so no further downtime is anticipated for this evening.

Thank you for your patience as the issue was resolved.

---Original Posting---

SWAN Member Library Staff:

The serials records for SWAN's 'Weekly' titles are now available for use. If a periodical title appears on this list, please use these records for issues dated January 1, 2018 and later.

The titles and their control numbers can be found here: Weeklies 2018

The self-nomination survey form is now open for the SWAN Circ Advisory Committee 2017 election.  Please consider throwing your hat in the ring.  The process is very simple, just fill out the form including a brief statement about yourself and what you can bring to the table.   We have seven vacancies to fill including the new seat for a MAGIC or LINC staff member.   The form is open now and will close on Oct.

The agenda and packet are now posted for the meeting next week, Tuesday, October 17 at 9:30am at the Oak Lawn Public Library. This packet includes the recommendation, which was updated based on feedback for clarity and to reflect revised funding provided by RAILS. This meeting will be live streamed with chat participation. Information on accessing the event streaming is below.

The Meeting will be broadcast live at the website https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/7940347906339688450
Please note, this live stream will be of the presentation, not the audience. Chat will allow questions as meeting permits.

The packet includes online comments received to date, and responses. The online comment form will remain open and the Fees Committee will continue to review them, along with the SWAN Board. You can leave comments here from the SWAN Fees Committee webpage.

The circulation statistics for September, 2017 have been re-posted to include the previously missing data from 9/30/2017.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Helen Pinder
Analyst, Member Services
helen@swanlibraries.net • (630)326-8716

Thanks to some eagle-eyed staff at our libraries we have discovered the Circulation Statistics posted on the SWAN support site do not include transactions from September 30^th. Although our subscriptions were set to run late in the day on the first of the month it appears the harvest had not yet completed. We have changed our subscriptions to run late in the day on the second day of the month and encourage any members who have subscribed to statistics reports on their own to do the same.