The Cataloging Advisory meeting scheduled for August 23^rd at RAILS will start at 9:30 AM instead of 10:00 AM.  This is to accommodate a joint-discussion with the Serials Users Group.  This announcement serves as invitation to the Serials User Group members to attend this August Cataloging meeting [please register via L2].

As a reminder, some changes will be rolled out to Enterprise profiles Wednesday, July 25th:

• Contact and hours links will appear in your 'Library Information' dropdown menu, so they're available to patrons even from search results
• Library hours information will move to the right sidebar of your landing page

Libraries can also request customizations to their Enterprise profiles, including:

New 19 Member Library Staff:

Please be aware, SirsiDynix has begun the process of terminating Enterprise services for the previous LINC/MAGIC patron catalogs. As these catalogs no longer reference your current SWAN data, this should not pose a problem, but it’s helpful to note in the event that you receive any patron questions. This retirement could potentially impact any stale links on your library website that were directly referencing materials or searches that pointed to the old Enterprise catalogs. Additionally, there’s the potential for stale browser bookmarks that are still being referenced by patrons or staff.

The retirement of these catalogs will not impact your current SWAN Enterprise catalog profiles in any way. If you have any questions about this retirement or come across any issues, please let us know by emailing help@swanlibraries.net.

Thank you.

SWAN is creating a 5-year strategic plan for the organization. Two membership "town hall" meetings will take place. These will be facilitated by Constulting Within Reach. We invite you all to register, attend, and share your thoughts on library trends, community needs, and what you think SWAN should focus on over the next 5 years.

We encourage you to register via L2.

Wednesday, August 1 at Tinley Park Public Library at 1:30 p.m. in the large library meeting room located on the first floor.
https://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=27427

Thursday, August 2 at Oak Brook Public Library at 10:00 a.m. in the library meeting room.
https://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=27428

Curtis Chang from Consulting Within Reach will facilitate each 90 minute session with questions and discussion.

Please note: Initially we thought that SWAN would provide live streaming for these town hall meetings, but these will only be for library directors to attend in person. No SWAN staff will be present at these meetings.

If you have questions, please reach out to Aaron Skog.

As was reported at the last SWAN Circulation Users Group we are moving forward with the rescheduling of notices. In the past we had to separate the individual SMS and Email notice reports alphabetically to ensure the phone carriers and email servers did not block our notices. Last Tuesday we stopped separating the reports and all seems to be running well.

SWAN Member Libraries:

We have received a few reports of users encountering "UNABLE TO PROCESS REQUEST" errors while attempting to search for items, particularly when searching by ISBN.

SirsiDynix has looked into the error and suspects this is related to a locked process on the system that will be cleared during our nightly Halt/Run.

Typically, if this error is encountered during a search, the item will still display after the error is acknowledged. You may also need to rerun the search to display your results.

All documents for this year's SWANstravaganza Conference are now available for you! We've attached a campus map for directions/parking, a grid schedule for the day, and the conference guide for the event which provides an overview of each session throughout the day. These guides will also be included in each of your registration packets when you arrive, so no need to print an extra copy.

The 2018 ILA Awards have been announced, and among the fifteen award recipients, four were from SWAN libraries. Congratulations to Marissa Elera of Berwyn Public Library, David Kelsey of St. Charles Public Library, Lucas McKeever of Elmwood Park Public Library, and Katrina Arnold (trustee) of Broadview Public Library! 

We have added the email address to the Addresses tab of the Display User wizard.  To do this the state (e.g. IL) has been removed:

Blue Island Public Library will be closed again on Thursday, July 12th. They are working to have an alternate entrance completed to reopen regular hours Friday, July 13^th (9:00 AM).  This article provides an update on the Library services and impact:  https://wgntv.com/2018/07/10/car-crashes-into-blue-island-library/