Document 12-49
Director’s Report
August 2012
Symphony
We have re-scheduled the upgrade to Symphony 3.4.1 for the weekend of October 28, 2012. The upgrade will not take long to complete but it will require that every workstation running Workflows be updated with a new version of the client. We know you all hate these upgrades that require client upgrades (we're not that crazy about them either :) but we hope giving you more than 60 days notice of the upgrade schedule will help.
So please prepare to schedule staff to upgrade your Workflows clients the morning of October 29th. Workstations will not be able to connect to Workflows if the client has not been updated. We will be sending you much more information on the upgrade including release notes and client upgrade instructions closer to the upgrade date -- for now we just wanted to give everyone a heads up so that you may plan accordingly.
SmartPay
The SmartPay service is being field tested by Edison, Monroe and Piscataway and will be available to all LMxAC libraries later in September. At the time the service is made available across the consortium we will add links to SmartPay on the iBistro page as well as within My Account in iBistro. We will also be sending out a press release (probably in early October) announcing the service.
Boopsie
LMxPRESS will be submitted to the various app stores within the next few days. Once it is submitted it will be immediately accessible via the Android and Blackberry stores -- the Apple store takes a couple weeks to make new apps available. A press release will be sent out (hopefully by mid September) once the app is available in the Apple store. You can download the app now at lmxac.boopsie.com.
We will provide the following link for your webpages to promote the app:
http://www.lmxac.org/lmx/boopsie_app.html
Please DO NOT make this link available on your websites until we tell you it is ready to go.
We had planned to have training on the app but based on the feedback we've heard throughout the beta test period it does not seem it is necessary. If you have questions about the app please let Mei or me know and we will do our best to assist you.
Once the app is released LMxAC can send out a user announcement via email to your users announcing the availability of LMxPRESS if you would like us to do so. We will have a standard announcement message that you can use or edit for your local needs.
NJLA Activities
I have been appointed NJLA’s liaison to the NJASL Board. Except for August the Board meets on Saturdays so this is something I can do in my role as president elect that will not impact on my work at LMxAC.
Activity Report
In June we made 5 troubleshooting visits to 5 member libraries. Other measures of activity include:
System statistics July
New Items Added 40769 (includes eBooks for MCC)
Bib Records Added by LMxAC 523
New Bib Records Added 27030 (eBooks for MCC)
New User Records Added 6025 (student records for MCC Summer session)
Brief Record Upgraded to full MARC 235
Duplicate records merged 301
API reports and transactions 10
Authority Records Added 137
Authority Records Modified 103
Meetings
I have participated in the following meetings
NJLA Board Meeting July 31
Boopsie Conference Call Aug. 1
NJLA Public Policy Meeting Aug. 3
NJASL Board Meeting Aug. 9
NJLA IFC Meeting Aug. 10
NJLA Board Meeting Aug. 21
Respectfully Submitted,
Eileen M. Palmer
Executive Director