The annual ILLiad International conference is taking place March 25 & 26, 2010 in Virginia Beach.  A number of pre-conference programs are available on March 24.  These include Nylink’s own Jon Penn, presenting with Collette Mak of the University of Notre Dame and Stephanie Spires of Atlas Systems.  This workshop will include both a morning and afternoon session (hands on lab in the afternoon!) on March 24.  If you are going down to the conference make plans to participate in this workshop.

ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:00 am – 12:00 noon

Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame; Jon Penn, Nylink; Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems

Join instructors Collette Mak of the University of Notre Dame, Jon Penn of Nylink, and Stephanie Spires of Atlas Systems to learn about the ILLiad database, OCLC Usage Stats, and how to create custom reports. We will explore:

• Basic ILLiad database tables and relationships
• ILLiad web reports vs OCLC stats
• Exporting data from OCLC Usage Stats for Use in Microsoft Excel
• Exporting data from the ILLiad client and web reports for use in Microsoft Excel
• How to access the ILLData database using Microsoft Excel
• Extracting data for annual report topics
• Using mapping software to display data for visual impact

This session is BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop).

ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple – Hands-on Lab

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

NOTE: ILLiad and OCLC Data Reporting Made Simple class is a prerequisite in order to attend this class

Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame; Jon Penn, Nylink; Stephanie Spires, Atlas Systems

This session requires the use of a personal laptop with Microsoft Office programs. Lab exercises will include extracting sample ILLiad and OCLC Usage Stats data to create:

• Spreadsheets
• Pivot tables and charts

This session is BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop).

There is more information about this workshop on the 2010 International ILLiad Conference web site:

https://www.atlas-sys.com/conference/login.aspx

ILLiad 8: Borrowing from Submitted by Customer to Request Finished

Join Atlas Systems and Nylink as we explore ILLiad Borrowing with OCLC from top to bottom. This is an in-depth borrowing processing class offered over four one-hour online sessions. Topics for discussion:

• OCLC settings that impact your ILLiad efficiency
• How patron registration data impacts processing and options for streamlining
• Basic borrowing workflow
• Overdues, unfilleds and conditionals, renewals, ALA requests and more
• Odyssey trusted sender
• Basics of customizing borrowing email templates and word documents
• Purchase on Demand workflows and other available acquisitions and collection development customizations in ILLiad
• Dealing with connection manager errors and special messages

Dates and Cost

February 22, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 23, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 24, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 25, 2010 1-3 PM ET

Cost: $400.00

For more information about this workshop, and other classes offered by Atlas Systems, please go to the Atlas Systems training web site.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) and Atlas Systems are excited to provide a special offer for a limited time on CCC’s Annual Copyright License and Atlas Systems’ Ares e-reserves system.
Purchase the Annual Copyright License before April 15th, 2010 and CCC will waive the General and Administrative (G&A) fee1 and, Atlas will provide the first year of its Ares e-reserves system2 at no cost.
Combine the reserves management functionality of Ares with the convenience of the Annual Copyright License Ares is Atlas’ e-reserves system. It is designed to quickly and efficiently automate library reserve services for faculty, students and reserve staff. Ares provides around-the-clock access to a reserves collection and saves time for faculty members and library staff.

For more information about this offer, and about what Ares can do for your library, see the Nylink website.

Nylink partner Atlas Systems has announced the first Ares User Group meeting, to be held at ALA Midwinter in Boston. 

As Ares Electronic Reserves continues to grow in the number of users, Atlas decided that it was time to turn the Ares User Group meetings over to the Ares community, and are very pleased that Crystal Hester of Case Western Reserve University has agreed to serve as the first Chairperson of the Ares User Group Meetings.   As Chairperson, Crystal will handle the organizing, promoting and running of the Ares User Group Meetings to be held at the 2010 ALA Midwinter and Annual Conferences.

The inaugural Ares User Group Meeting will be held on Saturday, January 16, 2010, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm at the Westin Waterfront Hotel’s Hancock Room.  Current Ares subscribers as well as librarians interested in learning more about how Ares Electronic Reserves can help automate and streamline e-reserves functions in their library, are welcome to attend.

Nylink is pleased to share the news that our partner, Atlas Systems, developers of the Ares e-reserve management system, have recently made it possible to automatically cross-check your permission requests that are stored in Ares with titles covered under Copyright Clearance Center’s Annual Copyright License. To celebrate this expanded copyright management functionality, Atlas has announced a special promotion.  Through August 1, 2009 receive the first year of your Ares software subscription and server hosting at no cost when you purchase or renew your Annual Copyright License. 

Visit www.atlas-sys.com to sign up for a web demonstration of Ares or contact ares@atlas-sys.com for more information.  If you are attending ACRL, you can stop by the Atlas Systems booth, # 435, to learn more about Ares and this new integration with the Annual Copyright License.   

CCC will also be exhibiting at ACRL in booth #519. If you are interested in more information on the Annual Copyright License contact Chuck Hemenway by email at chuck@copyright.com.