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Update to Membership

SWAN Committee of the Whole Meeting Presented by Aaron Skog, SWAN Executive Director Prairie State College May 13, 2014. Update to Membership. ILS Agreement. ILS Agreement. Migration! SWAN Staff Activity. Weekly Conference Calls w/ SirsiDynix Drafting Project Plan

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Update to Membership

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  1. SWAN Committee of the Whole Meeting Presented by Aaron Skog, SWAN Executive Director Prairie State College May 13, 2014 Update to Membership

  2. ILS Agreement

  3. ILS Agreement

  4. Migration! SWAN Staff Activity • Weekly Conference Calls w/ SirsiDynix • Drafting Project Plan • Review Profiling & Software Policy Docs • Visits to Lansing & Winnetka Libraries • Shared Experience with HALAN: migration from III to SD

  5. Migration! How We See It Before Go Live After Go Live

  6. Migration! SirsiDynix Consortia Summit • Planning Underway • Consortia Managers & Staff • CCS, LINC, MAGIC, & RSA– all SirsiDynix customers • How they designed Symphony • Resource Sharing • Managing Enterprise

  7. COSUGI 2014 • COSUGI • All SWAN Libraries Now Members! • 2014 Conference Detroit, Michigan • May 15-17, 2014 • http://cosugi.org/COSUGI_CONFERENCE/

  8. SLUI Meeting Summary • SirsiDynix Library Users of Illinois • Held April 24, 2014 at the Bloomingdale Public Library • Presentation “Caution, change ahead: Skill sets for today and tomorrow” presented by Kelly Krieg-Sigman

  9. Change Management Notes

  10. SWAN’s Change Management Workshop SWAN Member Services Has Designed a Workshop with Our Changing the ILS • Coming this Fall: Two half-day workshops • Library Leaders, will • Know the differences between/among types of change • Be able to apply specific change concepts, analytically, to organizational change • Understand how transition periods support healthy adaptation to change • Examine the current reality of the transition period within the SWAN libraries • Craft personal change strategies and strategies to influence the collective future • Be able to use effective techniques for communication in teams undergoing change • Be able to see how everyone can contribute in a positive way to change efforts • Library Managers, will • Have a nuanced understanding of the dynamics of change • Recognize sources and types of power in organizations and how to use power effectively • Be able to apply strategies for lessening anxiety and overcoming resistance • Have an understanding of organizational culture and how to tap it to balance necessary change • and tradition-bearing important to the organization

  11. Network Migration: Complete! • Baker & Taylor Axis360 Authentication Issue *Resolved* • Quick Clicks Issue following Network Migration *Resolved* • Affected Brodart, Baker & Taylor, Innovate Ecommerce, Ingram, and Midwest Tapes • Intermittent slowness following Network Migration • Relating to new encryption method and interaction with aging SonicWall hardware • Working with libraries individually and SonicWALL to resolve the issue • JAR Issues • Can be caused by… • Corrupted JAR installation (Resolved by reinstall) • Network congestion issues

  12. SWAN Technology Projects

  13. SWAN RFID • Surveys distributed via SWANcom and homepage last week(https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3FWY7YS) • SWAN will be requesting tag inventories and volunteer presenters for an upcoming workshop • Contact Steven Schlewitt, SWAN IT manager at 630.734.5130 for more information

  14. SonicWall Upgrades • Current TZ-170, PRO-2040, and PRO-3060 users are outside of hardware support cycle • Hardware will continue to function, but cannot be replaced or supported under warranty • TZ170’s are no longer capable of supporting the security levels required of SWAN • Slowness following Network Migration Project related to hardware performance capacity issues • ILS migration is a great reason to upgrade! Pictured Above: SonicWall TZ-170 Unit

  15. SWAN Media Blasts • How do YOU want to hear from SWAN? • Existing Methods… • SWANCom Emails • Support.SWANlibraries.net homepage • Future candidates… • Twitter? • Facebook? • Google Plus?

  16. Business Plan Committee • BizCom 2.0 • Rich Wolff & Rodger Brayden • 1st meeting May 9th • Reviewed 2010 SWAN Business Plan & Scenarios documents

  17. Ambassador Committee • Co-chairs Jim Deiters & Anne Kozak • Met May 8th, meeting June 5th • 12 Ambassador Representatives • Focus for 2014

  18. SWAN Board, COW & Quarterly • SWAN Board May 13 12PM: Prairie State College hosting (changed from Friday May 16) • Quarterly June 5: RAILS Burr Ridge • What Do You Think About Live Streaming? • Recording? • Visit by SirsiDynix & Presentation Under Discussion

  19. Questions & Discussion Aaron Skog, aaron.skog@railslibraries.info

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