This was my first full SirsiSuperConference and it was really valuable in helping me understand more aspects of Symphony and the many aspects of our ILS.
Highlights of the conference included:
Introduction/Opening
Keynote - Pamela Martin - The Rennaissance Generation (Ren Gen)
Product Updates - Talin Bigham
- on-time delivery of product updates
- iPhone app
- bookmark
- permalinks for search results
- page titles for every page
- elibrary custom library documentation on client care site.
Client Care -Terry Jarnigan
Berit Nelson - Product Development
User Experience at Academic Libraries
Jared Oates
"Our goal is to allow your users to immediately and intuitively connect with the sources that they need."
Example shown of enterprise 2.0 -
Cromaine Library
Carnegie Mello Library
Showing rooms within enterprise
Enterprise indexes:
Harvested
• Catalogs
• Favorites (web sites)
• Rooms content
• Digital collections
• Federated
Federated
• Remote catalogs
• Subscription databases
Set up search limits
• Admin selected
• User selected (user has option of searching within their own created limits - for example which library you want to search in - focus search before you launch the search)
Relevance
Precedence or preference
• Matches in specific fields
• More recent records
• Records from certain search target
Under consideration
• Preference to socially selected matches
Behind The Scene Changes To The New Version Of e-Library
Margaret Pelfrey
Senior Consultant
Consulting Services
SirsiDynix
- differences between RevC and RevD focusing on the changes to Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript and My Account.
What's new?
- Xhtml
- Css
- Images directory
- Js
- My account new page files
New directory structure:
- Webcat/config/css
- Htdocs/css
Hierarchy of css
• Sirsidynix.css
• Elibrary.css
• Custom.css
• Branch#.css
Images are defined within classes
- Dstyle-new images directory
- Webcatcommon/images_deliv/Dstyle
- Webcat/config/js
- Htdocs/js
My account - every tab or even section of a tab is a new include file.
- Tabbed displays
- Initial summary
- Alerts
- Sort by columns
John Wohlers
Library Technology Coordinator
Waubonsee Community College
o Web 2.0 is a moving target. What is it exactly?
o Google Book Search
• Catalog enrichment
o Library Thing
• Catalog enrichment
• Tagging
• User reviews
• Easy to implement
o Google gadgets
• User customization
• Catalog enrichment
• Catalog searches
• ILL request forms on iGoogle
o Twitter
• Easy to use
• Instant and honest feedback
• Unintrusive
• Virtual community
• Embed Twitter feed in record display - will pass a tinyurl link to the record in the tweet. The code to do this is available on the Twitter site.
o Foxmarks