OHUG Meeting - April 30 in Whitby

The next meeting of the Ontario Horizon and Dynix User Group will be held on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at the Whitby Public Library, 405 Dundas Street West, Whitby, ON. L1N 6A1

We have a great agenda, including demonstrations of SirsiDynix Symphony 3.2, Bibliocommons and an RFID panel session.

As SirsiDynix will again be providing lunch, we need to know how many are planning to attend. To register, please email me at asykes@bramlib.on.ca. Please don’t reply to this list – your colleagues will thank you.


Meeting Agenda

9:00am – 9:30am Meet and Greet with Coffee & Snacks
9:30am – 9:35am Opening Remarks and Introductions (Arthur Sykes)
9:35am – 9:45am UUGI, CSUG & SuperConference (Robert Thompson, CSUG )
9:45am – 10:00am SirsiDynix Corporate and Product Update (Steve Donoghue)
10:00am – 12:00pm Highlights of SirsiDynix Symphony 3.2 (Live Demo)(SirsiDynix Staff)
12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch and Tour of the Whitby Library
1:30pm – 2:15pm SirsiDynix - Planning for Symphony (Steve Donoghue)
2:15pm – 3:15pm Bibliocommons (Gail Richardson, Oakville Public Library)
3:15pm – 3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm – 4:20pm RFID – Panel Discussion (staff from Brampton, Hamilton, Markham & Whitby Public Libraries )
4:20pm – 4:30pm Closing Remarks and Next Meeting Details (Arthur Sykes)

Meet the OHDUG Rubber Chicken live and in person. Pictures and autographs will be available.

No OHDUG Meeting at OLA 2008

There is no OHDUG meeting at the OLA conference this year.

The next OHDUG meeting is scheduled for Wednesday April 30, 2008 at Whitby Public Library. Agenda and details to follow at a later date.

CODI '07 video on YouTube

Seasons Greetings,

I posted a 2 minute video of scenes from CODI '07:

http://ca.youtube.com/results?search_query=CODI+pittsburgh&search=Search

(including a clip from the Cdn. group meeting).

JAF

Martin Taylor on Open Source sw

I edited the audio of Martin Taylor (operating principal of Vista Equity Partners) leading a discussion about Open Source software and the ILS at CODI. Maybe we could post it on the OHDUG website (it runs a bit over an hour - 45 MB MP3 file).



Jim

iGoogle Gadgetry: Add Your Library's Presence and Branding to iGoogle

Another "how-to" presentation, quite well done. Learned some neat features.

How To Implement Web 2.0 for Library Staff from Start to Finish

Corey Christians, from The Yavapai Library Network gave an excellent presentation on using JOOMLA as a Content Management System. There were several limitations and it would not be suitable for my library, but very interesting to learn about nonetheless. It was very encouraging to see how many libraries are now capable of home-grown solutions using Open Source software.

Wiki Madness at the Westminster Public Library

Great presentation and definitely worth checking out on the CODI site. Eric and Veronica went through all their considerations during the process - and how they got buy-in from staff. I found this to be one of the most useful sessions at the conference.