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.
Salutations!
Today's Topic: Spring Housecleaning! aka Database Maintenance
Today's Tech Tip: Schedule sending an email
Just as one cleans out one's garden at certain times of the year, so I do periodic cleaning of our shared database and it is getting to be about that time. It is frustrating for patrons and staff to wade through search results with copies that say "Withdrawn" or "LongOverdue" or "Missing."
The obvious ones to clean up are all those items you weeded. You check out weeded items to your WD-XX user (ex WD-PO, for PoySippi), and that changes the status (Current Location) to WITHDRAWN2 which patrons can't see in the catalog. The next step is a report to move all those withdrawn items to a special, system-location of DISCARD. As I said, those are the obvious ones, but there are a bunch more. For example...
Have you noticed the HeritageQuest Online "Featured Resource" block on your main Research Tools page? This is something new I've implemented for 2015 in the hopes of increasing usage on your electronic resources. Each month, sometime between mid-month and the end of the month, I'll be featuring a different electronic resource. Feel free to borrow the graphic, text, links (please right-click the link and "copy link location" to preserve the link I've used - contact me with any questions) if you'd like to promote the resource on your homepage, your Facebook, etc. Let's get the word out th
