Recordings of all 14 webinars from the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference are now available here. Watch sessions in 4 tracks — small & mighty, marketing, youth services, and library leadership — plus opening and closing sessions.
The 7th 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: Let's play "Find that Patron!!"
At an ALL-WALS meeting last year it was decided that all WALS libraries would enter patron names "as written" (except in ALL-CAPS) on their ID or application form. This means that VanderZanden gets entered as "VANDERZANDEN" and "Van der Zanden" gets entered as "VAN DER ZANDEN." Reminder: you need to be more diligent when searching for duplicate users because last names won't sort together anymore. Read More...
