Recordings of all 14 webinars from the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference are available here. Watch sessions in 4 tracks — small & mighty, tech trends, adult services, and library management — plus opening and closing sessions. (Recorded webinars may be counted as a Category C continuing education actifity.)
The 8th annual WWWC was a state-wide virtual conference supported by all 16 library systems and DPI. Because of this collaboration, all sessions are available to you at no cost.
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Today’s Topic: How to get rid of all those Lost Item Alerts, or What to do when you get the “Item not found in Catalog” popup.
When a patron doesn’t return an item, after 30 days it becomes LOST and the patron is Billed for the item. For 18-22 months, the item stays in LOST Limbo and remains in the database and on the patron’s record as LOST bill. 3-4 times/yr I run a report that moves these items and bills from LOST Limbo to UI Purgatory. This process removes the item from the database (so they don’t show in the catalog or WF), and removes the LOST bill, and replaces it with a UI-ITEM bill. It also writes the item’s info to the patron record in the Lost Items Note field. Why do you care? ...Read more...
The upgrade of our email system to Office 365 is almost complete. For end users, this means access to the latest version of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint from any internet-capable computer anywhere. The new system will save on infrastructure costs, and ensure that everyone is up to date with the latest security patches. While we are transitioning, and afterwards as well, you will still be able to use the version of Microsoft Office that you have on your computer. We will be contacting and coordinating with each library before they are moved to the new system.
