If your library is planning to participate in the first cohort of Aspen trainings, you can now register in L2 for the kickoff meeting, office hours, and Aspen Admin training sessions.
Note: the Aspen Admin trainings for Purchase Suggestions and Record Grouping have changed, so please update your calendars if you plan to attend those sessions.
If you haven't already, sign up for your cohort by Monday, August 23rd.
Dates and registration
Kickoff meeting August 30th at 10 a.m.
Your library's Aspen contact is required to attend. Anyone who will be working in Aspen Administration is strongly encouraged to attend as well.
Aspen office hours Mondays at 10 a.m.
All library staff are encouraged to attend the bi-weekly Aspen office hours every other Monday from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. SWAN staff will be available for all of your questions! Office hours begin September 20th.
Aspen Admin Training: Themes & Library Settings, Tuesday, September 7th 11 a.m. - noon
- This training will cover: How to customize colors, logos, and fonts; adding hours & holidays; and adding links to your catalog menu.
- Who should attend: Library staff with the OPAC Administrator role
Aspen Admin Training: Browse categories, Spotlights, & Adding Covers, Tuesday, September 14th 11 a.m. - noon
- This training will cover: How to customize the home page of the catalog with highlighted collections, embed item lists into your website, and add item covers to items in the catalog missing covers or in need of a custom cover.
- Who should attend: Any library staff with Aspen Administration access that will handle reader's advisory in the catalog and/or library website
Aspen Admin Training: Placards & System Messages, Tuesday, September 21st 11 a.m. - noon
- This training will cover: How to add system alerts, for a library closing for example, and placards to highlight e-resources and/or services in your search results.
- Who should attend: OPAC Administrator, additional staff optional
Aspen Admin Training: Purchase Suggestions, Tuesday, October 5th 11 a.m. - noon
- This training will cover: How to use Aspen's Purchase Suggestion form to manage purchase suggestions from your patrons. This training is optional - if your library chooses not to use the Aspen Purchase Suggestion functions, no one at your library needs to attend.
- Who should attend: Any library staff with Aspen Administration access that will handle purchase suggestions
Aspen Admin Training: Record Grouping, Tuesday, October 12th 11 a.m. - noon
- This training will cover: Record grouping and cataloging functions in Aspen for SWAN Cataloging Library staff only.
- Who should attend: Library staff with the OPAC Cataloging role
All-staff training recordings
The all-staff trainings are posted to the SWAN support site. Note that there will not be a scheduled webinar for the all-staff trainings, but please view them and bring your questions to the Aspen office hours!
- Searching and intro to grouped records
- eResources
- Masquerade mode and holds
- Accounts and recommendations
You can also get acquainted with Aspen's features through the Aspen documentation.
