IUG Highlights Beth Juhl Jacque Dunn

Sessions WebBridge / Pathfinder Pro Forum (D3) WebPub.Def (E3) Patron-Driven Acquisitions (F6) Enhancements Forum RDA Update (G7) Ebook Management (H2) ERM Forum ERM Standards and Best Practices (J9) Article Finder (K5) “Locate This” (L5) Changes in ILS (Sierra) (M7) WebPAC Upgrade Process (N3) Page Scraping / AJAX (Q5) Technical Directions for ILS (Sierra) (P8) Quick Hits: Unicode, Scopes Posters: Hosted System; QR Codes

Sierra (4/26/11) Neil Block, Hollary Newman, Betsy Graham, and others

Sierra “Tech Uplift” New platform / replaces Millennium Integrated Modules PostgreSQL database documented data dictionary Lucene Search Engine (Encore) Web Services Architecture Cloud or Local

PostgreSQL database Database Layer Services / Business / Application Layer Circulatio Checkin Rules Hours Presentation Layer Encore External Apps Sierra Client Layer

Sierra Implementation Architectural layer in place with R2009b Currently development partners / focus groups Beta release November 2011 Initial release will still have a Java client All Millennium functionality on day 1. (some text-based functions will not yet be integrated)

Sierra Implementation Phase 2 Web-based Circ module APIs for external programming Community Developer’s sandbox Phase 3 Postgres Table Editor New Acq workflow Social Media Integration

$ierra? “Services-based” pricing Loyalty rewards “Inn Appreciation” Length of time as a customer Amount of annual maintenance paid “We want everyone to come along with us”

Sierra? More than 200 names submitted by III staff InnKline Youniverse Green

Patron-Driven Acquisitions Hamline U. – ebrary & U Nevada Reno – EBL Workflows Record loads Budgeting and reporting

Ebook Management San Jose State U Reviewed and revised workflows for ebooks  3 basic workflows Individual ebooks via YBP Individual ebooks via assorted vendors Packages and subscriptions  Common themes for these workflows: Use of load tables to automate record work Adding MARC records for all titles Use of Millennium ERM for statistics & licensing Created Ebooks Web Page for Public

RDA Update Ken Wells – III Product Manager & Leslie Strauss – SkyRiver Waiting on official report from LoC (ALA Annual) RDA Update is a Service Commitment Accepting new fields (load tables) Accept RDA data (MARC validity tables) Displaying RDA data (Webpub.def, briefcit.html, bib_display,html)

RDA, Continued Reindexing is not part of Service Commitment III recommends not indexing but some schools are(e.g., Central Mich has 655) Questions / Issues Mapping 3XX fields to Mat Type? Limiting by 3xx? Double role in Author field in WebPAC III can modify browse display in Millennium client (without 245|h hard to see “electronic resource” etc.)

Article Finder that Works Bob Duncan – Lafayette College Part of WebBridge Out of the box not satisfactory

Locate This Brown University Dynamic Map Lookup for call numbers Based on JQuery, Django / Python