Conference Sessions Outline

All currently approved sessions for COSUGI 2022 are listed on the table below.

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Dates and times TBD and are subject to change.

 

 

Conference Session Outline

Session Name	Virtual Session
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A Holistic Interactive Approach to Library Systems Assessment	In 2021 LOUIS Libraries undertook an assessment of its Library Services Platform, the major components being SirsiDynix Symphony and Enterprise. We collected and analyzed statistical usage data, training metrics, surveyed our member libraries' staff, and our own staff. Using this data, we were able to determine the overall satisfaction rates among our users and identify areas of concern. Then we shared the analysis and data with our membership using interactive dashboards to help inform consortia-wide decision making. This presentation will share those results, with an emphasis on the process of collecting and sharing the data with our consortium members.
A LOT in Your Library: Managing your Library of Things collection from acquisition to discovery	Adding non-traditional lending items into a traditional ILS can be a daunting task due to the specialized nature of the collection. High item costs, varying loan periods and patron use agreements are only the beginning. Adding LOT items into your ILS, packaging the items for checkout, training staff on collection handling and management are the next steps. Finally, getting the public to discover your LOT collection and check out the items provides its own set of challenges. Each part of this process will be presented, from acquisition to discovery, by a Horizon library system using Enterprise for their OPAC.
Almost a Librarian: What a long- time staff member has learned from and MLIS program	Having worked at the Mississippi State University Library for 27+ years, I embarked on the journey to earn by MLIS degree at the University of Southern Mississippi. Because of my tenure at the MSU library I am aware of how libraries support their patrons. Due to my studies this past year, I learned why we do what we do. Come listen to insights from an almost librarian on what is being taught to future librarians.
Batch-maker, Batch-maker, Make me a Batch: matching batch functions to library technical services tasks	With the numerous retirements and changing demands within the Technical Services unit, staff have had to find new ways to accomplish tasks quickly and efficiently. With each job, the question became, “Is there a faster/better/more efficient way to do this?” Throughout the pandemic, staff have found many new workflows utilizing batch processes within Horizon, saving time and librarian sanity. Each month, ebooks come in and out of the catalog. Previously, to remove these records, a staff member would hand delete them out one at a time. This workflow tied up staff members’ time (with up to 20,000 ebooks each month), and it was easy to delete the wrong book. To be more efficient, staff now utilize the batch deletion options in Horizon.
ConsortiaSIG Sharing Session	Consortia Sharing/Business Meeting. The session moderators will lead participant discussion of common issues for Symphony and Horizon consortia as well as a brief update of the enhancement requests. The Consortia SIG will also conduct its business meeting and planning for the Fall 2022 meeting.
COVID-19 : Learning from one another	COVID-19 showed us how prepared (or not) libraries were in dealing with public health emergencies. This open exchange of everything from best practices to not-doing-that- again wil be moderated after a brief overview of what has happened and what may happen in the future.
Create book list carousels to display in Enterprise or on library website using Syndetics Unbound widget	HCPL needs a temporary solution to display book list carousels on the library website. After comparing with SD custom service of “Book List Carousels for External Web Sites or as Rooms Content in Enterprise”, we decided to use Syndetics Unbound book widget instead. This widget provides different style using different data source such as RSS feed, website, or list of ISBN or UPCs for manually curated lists. The carousel can be displayed on Enterprise rooms or footer and regular website.
Getting into the weeds of patron privacy	Protecting patron privacy is a core value of the library profession. To adequately safeguard the privacy of our users, we sometimes need to take a step back to evaluate our data practices and ensure we are being as careful as possible with Personally Identifiable Information. The SAILS library network embarked on a privacy audit in the fall of 2021 to identify ways it could improve its privacy practices. During this presentation, we will provide an overview of the process followed to conduct the audit, the major areas of concern that were identified, and changes made to our Symphony, BLUEcloud Analytics, and Enterprise instances to help us better protect the privacy of our patrons.
Hands On Sharing to make Discovery and Mobile and Calendar Fully Bilingual	Have you dabbled in updating the language files in Enterprise or BlueCloud Mobile and wondered how much work it would take to commit to making Enterprise and BlueCloud Mobile (and your Calendar) fully bilingual? Join me for a hands-on session where I show you what you have to update in Enterprise and BlueCloud Mobile and your calendar (we chose LibraryMarket) to make them fully bilingual. Learn what the biggest changes and challenges are.
Harmonizing Data for Offsite Storage	The University of Virginia has approximately 4.2 million items in the Ivy Stacks, its off-grounds, high density storage facility. The Ivy Stacks staff use Caia Software & Solution's storage management solution to shelve, retrieve, and circulate Ivy Stacks items. This presentation will discuss many of the ways in which actions in Symphony trigger CaiaSoft updates and vice versa. Most updates are presently done on a daily or twice-daily basis, but UVA Library is working with Caia Software & Solutions to enable more real-time interactions using web services.
Harnessing Location Data from BlueCloud Analytics Using GIS	BLUEcloud Analytics provides a crucial window into your library’s data, but that data doesn’t have to stay in a table or a chart. By harnessing the power of geographic information systems (GIS), you can add location to your data to open up a whole new dimension of analysis. This session explores what GIS is and what it can do that other data analysis tools can’t, commonly used GIS platforms and their costs and benefits, how to bring data from BLUEcloud Analytics into GIS software, common spatial analysis workflows, and ideas for location-informed data analysis projects. If you don’t know where you are, you’ll never get where you’re going - use GIS to ground your library’s data in the real world.
Horizon not-so-Lightning Round	While they won't come quite as fast and furious as they have in the past, our aging panel of Horizon Administrators will present a few, semi-short talks on topics of undeniable interest.
Horizon System Administrator Sharing Session	Join your fellow Horizon System Administrator is a rousing discussion.
LOC Subject Headings and Diversifying a Collection	Over the past academic year the University of Dallas has made efforts to diversify its collection as well create a catalog which respectfully and accurately represents BIPOC, LGBTQ+ communities, and peoples from all World Religions.
Stump the Chumps : Horizon Edition	Bring your questions and try to stump the Horizon chumps. Let the Chumps try to help you out.
Sustainable Programming: Taking Good Care of Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Earth	Community members connect with ideas, one another, and library staff through programs offered by their public library. Whether it’s connecting children through storytimes, teens through hands-on activities, or adults through book clubs, library programs provide opportunities for community members to meet and engage with each other. Library programs support communities, but how do they provide sustenance for library professionals, our organizations, and our beautiful planet? In this session, the speakers will present new ideas for sustainable program planning as well as concrete and original examples of eco-friendly activities that support and celebrate sustainable actions and ideas.
Symphony Lightning round	Symphony Lightning round
The new normal for managing patron accounts	The pandemic forced us to rethink how we interact with patrons and manage patron accounts. Like everyone else, we made a lot of changes to our processes. Many of them we intend to keep, and we continued to make changes beyond what was required to make it through the pandemic. Our new normal gives patrons more tools to manage their own accounts.
Using Regular Expressions to enhance "Find and Replace" - converting a list of 020 fields into a list of ISBNs.	A library ebook vendor offered to provide ebooks at a deep discount if we already had a hard copy in our collection. A great deal – yes, please! But there was a catch: we had to provide a list of all books we wanted them to check in a very specific format: just a title and a single ISBN on each line. The initial data extract produced a list of 29,000 titles, with over 40,000 ISBNs – plus everything else in the MARC 020 field. Ugh! Using the free Notepad++ text editor, this mess was turned into a clean list of titles and ISBNs through the magic of regular expressions. Documentation and instructions will be provided.
What are you reporting on?	Whether you are a new or seasoned System Admin, you know reporting is a big part of your job. There are annual, monthly, weekly, daily and spur of the moment requests for reports and knowing which reporting tool to use to leverage the results you need is important. Do you have a report you can’t live without? Have a request for a report that you can’t figure out? Join this sharing session and share what reporting tools you use and how you use them.
When Disaster Strikes	In the 10 years since SAPLN went live with the first libraries on the state-wide OneCard library system, libraries have been confronted with a multitude of disasters. The Technology, Systems and Infrastructure team supporting libraries have been at the core of providing advice, communication and system administration for when disaster strikes and each disaster has provided us with lessons learned that we have built upon over time.
Why I Love Google Data Studio	For SAILS and our member libraries, getting Enterprise stats is very helpful to see how patrons search, what they are searching for, where they're coming from, how they're coming to us, etc. For many years we've emailed monthly reports to our directors for their library's Enterprise. Then, this automated process in Google stopped working. In the SD Services Catalog we found the "Importing Google Analytics into BLUEcloud Analytics". This sounded like a perfect solution. What we didn't know is it isn't an automated process. In fact, this is a fairly confusing process. So... rather than take the extra time to learn how to accomplish this, we took the credit loss and jumped into Google Data Studio instead.