CODI 2006 / Salt Lake City

CODI 2006 / Salt Lake City
Carol's update

I did not have a chance to blog yesterday, it was so busy and the concention center is quite a ways from the hotel. I hope that will not be the case next year.

Yesterday morning I attended the workship on accessing your statistics. It does not pertain to us, but i have some knowledge to share with our libraries if they wish to track their statistics via Access.

Attributes on the fly was next in line and we will have to wait until we upgrade to WR 1.4 in order to use what Amy & I learned in this workshop. Free-form sql scripts/reports.

Then I attended the WR: Connecting Reference to the Customers: Cecelia Hiu demonstrated how she uses WR and Narrowcast to run reports for her staff, create a link in HIP and the ability to send the same report to her staff. I have spoken with Melissa and we will have to wait until WR 1.4 in order to try the trick of creating new book lists and have then show in HIP.

Keynote speaker Robert Cringely was quite intriguing with his interpretation of the future of technology.

After the CODI Annual meeting, Mary and I went to the LDS Family History Library and I was able to find 4 books on my father's line. The we went to the Conference Center to hear the Mormon choir rehearse. What an experience that was for me.

I skipped out on the Q&A section this morning and answered some of Marita's questions. I met the rest of the group for the 11am workshop which was on Bimport. This utility we have used to import borrower records for Ellington Schools. I know that Thompson Schools was also interested in this possibility. We had a scare when Ken Bond mentioned that we should not be editing borrower records via borrower_dms, which is what we have been doing for the past two years. Amy spoke with him after the workshop and verified that the changes we make are ok to be made via borrower_dms (borrower report).

After lunch I attended the workshop on SIP, NCIP and LDAP. By this time I was tired enough that I am not sure I grasped the theory behind these.

The Codi Bulletin Board demo was quite interesting. It is separated out by forum, i.e. Citrculation, Catalogong, Acquisitions, etc. and then topics are posted and responses to the topic are created within the forum for each forum. Several suggestions were mentioned to improve the site. It is available to CODI members only.

The last thing I did today was the visit of the Salt Lake City PL. All I can say is WOW! It is 4 levels, has a cafe, Friends of the Library book store, flower shop, gift shop, and even a roof garden. I can see why it is the second popular spot in Utah, the first being Temple Square. Yes, that's Utah, not Salt Lake City.....

See you Tuesday,

Carol