MNIUG Conference Oct 30, 2007

You are cordially invited to attend the 2007 MNIUG Fall Conference. This conference begins where our Spring conference left off, bringing you four keynote speakers, two from Innovative and two from the Open Source community.

It's a day of opportunity to discover new Innovative products and services, learn how other Innovative libraries are integrating different commercial software with III, and get to know more about libraries and consortiums that are migrating to Koha and Evergreen open source solutions.

Innovative:

• Innovative's Bill Easton will be presenting the 2007 Release new features and products, including ENCORE.
• Innovative's Suzanne Conboy, Eproducts Specialist, will present III's Eproducts Suite: ERM, Research Pro, and WebBridge.

  ENCORE is a "...dynamically generated tag cloud based on subject headings in each current results set, localized Did you mean? suggestions, and the first three faceted search aspects: format, language, and collections (by location or content)...."

Koha Zoom:

WALDO Consortium's Executive Director, John Stromquist, will discuss WALDO's process of initiating a decision to move from Ex Libris to LibLime's Koha Zoom. John's presentation expands Joshua Ferraro's Liblime presentation, " Open Source Library Automation, All Grown Up," from our Spring 2007 MNIUG conference, bringing the user experience and process to us in an up-close and personal manner.

Evergreen:

Equinox Software, a company providing open source ILS solutions using Evergreen.

• Jason Etheridge, Evergreen software developer, will discuss the history of Evergreen and how it works, the modules available, and give a tour, etc.
  
• Elizabeth Garcia, PINES Program Director, Georgia Public Library Service (Evergreen User), will discuss their library's decision to move to Evergreen, the decision-making process and the migration experience.

Three break-out sessions:

• Federated Searching, including Innovative's Federated Search product, and other Federated Search products integrated with Innovative software.
• Content DM, digital content management.
• Innovative Eproducts Q&A.

St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
October 30th, 9:30am-4:00pm
(Please register by October 23)

$15 per person for MNIUG member libraries [member libraries]
$20 per person for non-MNIUG libraries

Payable to: MNIUG c/o Sarah Johnston, St. Olaf College Libraries
1510 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057