1A

BLC 257

Automate your searching and ordering

Carol Fagundus - Princeton University

Many vendors and organizations can now supply Marc format
files for you to load into your system with Voyager's bulk loading
capabilities. But what about the smaller vendors who aren't able to
do this? Many such vendors do use spreadsheet and database programs
and can provide files for selection and ordering if you ask. See how
you can use spreadsheets, delimited text files and database tables in
conjunction with macros to automatically search and order an entire
file of selections. Examples will be shown using Excel, Access and
MacroExpress.

1B

BLC Multicultural Center

Voyager Plugins: Choices and Requirements

Sharon Yang – Rider University
Yanyi Lee – Wagner College

"A plugin is a computer program that interacts with a host application to
provide a certain, usually very specific, function "on demand" (Wikipeida).
Voyager users are very innovative in developing and integrating such
programs with Voyager ILS. Some of the plugins are very useful. The
presentation will provide an introduction to a few selected plugins such as
OPAC Search Log Analyser, Patron SIF Viewer, Link Sleuth (Cataloging link
checking), OPAC timeout redirect script, ec. The introduction will include
an explanation of the technical requirements for implementing them. If
possible, the presentation will show screen snapshots and live demos of
selected plugins.

1C

BLC Theatre

Communication 2.0: Using Blogs and Wikis for Internal Communication

Nicole Engard – Princeton Theological Seminary
Sarah Theimer – Syracuse University

Tired of keeping track of print manuals, memos and policies? Wish you could eliminate those hundreds of emails related to your most recent project? Are you looking for a more efficient way to communicate within your library? Nicole Engard and Sarah Theimer have the answer! Join Sarah and Nicole as they show how blogs and wikis have
improved productivity and communications within their respective libraries.

2A

BLC 257

New Ledger Construction

Robert Cleary – Syracuse University

This presentation will review how Syracuse created a new ledger for 07-08 to coordinate with a reorganization of collection development responsibilities, and to more closely show support for the university’s schools and colleges. A major goal was to reduce a ledger that comprised 256 allocated fund codes, with approximately 600 reporting funds, in favor of a ledger with far fewer allocated fund codes. The new ledger contains 56 allocated fund codes, with 579 reporting funds. Cleary will review the process from beginning to end, including issues encountered in the new fiscal year including bulk loading, staff issues, missing fund codes, and changes in standard reports. On July 2nd, Cleary started to create the new ledger and finished it on July 3rd, including allocations. This was possible based on a heavy reliance on Macro Express scripts, which not only constructed the ledger but also entered allocations.

2B

BLC Theatre

Top Ten (or so) WebVoyage Hacks

Edward Corrado - The College of New Jersey

Do you want spell checking in your WebVoyage OPAC? How about RSS feeds? Maybe del.icio.us tagging? Edward M. Corrado, a veteran Voyager administrator, will discuss various modifications and additions that Systems Librarians around the world have made to WebVoyage. Besides spell checking and RSS feeds, Edward will discuss adding persistent links to bibliographic records, integrating Amazon.com book covers and reviews, searching WebVoyage from the Firefox Web browser search box, WebVoyage wrapper scripts and more. Each of these hacks will be given an overview with instructions on where to get more information. Towards the end of the session, time permitting, session attendees will be asked to share there own experience in adding functionality to WebVoyage.

2C

BLC Multicultural Center

Doing the Numbers: Cataloging Statistics and Voyager

Marilyn Quinn – Rider University
Cathy Weng – The College of New Jersey
Donald Thornbury - Princeton University

Marilyn and Cathy will present short descriptions of how they create and use cataloging
statistics at their libraries. This will be followed by discussion among all
in attendance. This is a topic that continues to challenge Voyager users,
who must devise local methods, create custom reports, and/or apply add-on
programs in order to compensate for the lack of a straight-forward, simple
methodology in our ILS. With administrators continuing to ask for numbers,
it is important that we catalogers provide meaningful statistics, numbers
that can be used, not just filed in an annual report. And the numbers should
be relatively easy to determine. We hope this discussion will give
catalogers new ideas, but more than that, we need to tell our system
designers exactly what we need. Please join us and tell your colleagues what
you are doing and what you wish you could do.

3A

Library Presentation Center

Getting it right : how to extract data successfully using Access

Janet Lute – Princeton University

This session will focus on using queries in Access to extract Voyager data accurately and efficiently. In the last ½ hour I will give attendees an opportunity to discuss their specific problems with regard to queries.

3B

BLC Theatre

VuFind Discovery Portal: Features and Implementation

Aaron Dobbs – Shippensburg University
Nicole Engard – Princeton Theological Seminary
Andrew Nagy - Villanova University

Contemporary libraries need state-of-the-art software to make their
collections and services visible and attractive to Web users accustomed
to the one stop-shopping aspects of Google and the customer-oriented
features of commercial sites such as Amazon. VuFind, an open-source
resource discovery portal developed for libraries by libraries, has
harnessed the power of contemporary Web search technology that enables
users to query and browse the library's resources in a simple yet
sophisticated manner.

3C

BLC Multicultural Center

e-Books Panel Discussion

Zoe Stewart-Marshall - Cornell University
Mark Wilson - Columbia University
Karin Wikoff - Ithaca College