SirsiDynix

Symphony 4.1.0 Open Forum
2023-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Join Product Manager Shawn Andary for an open forum on Symphony 4.1.0. Over the course of this free, hourlong webinar, Shawn will highlight—and answer customer questions about—this exciting release, which is slated for this fall.

Join us to:

Get an overview of new features and functionality, including SSO for SymphonyWeb and WorkFlows, integration with IMMS (Intelligent Materials Management System), updates to acquisitions and circulation tax policies, improvements for consortia, new item categories 6–10, and additional editable fields in Data Control.

Explore what’s next on the product roadmap.

Ask questions and share feedback.

Prepare to dive into forthcoming enhancements—and learn how to wield them. Register today.

About the Series

This open forum will spotlight the functions and capabilities of Symphony 4.1.0, slated to be released this fall. Product Manager Shawn Andary will moderate the session and answer your questions about the upcoming Symphony release.

Horizon Champion Series - Episode 1: Overview of Circulation Rules
2023-09-26 15:00 - 15:30
The Champion series—a two-part certification series offering key insights into product functionality—is back! Learn to navigate Horizon like a seasoned pro in this first installment with Consultant & Trainer Jake Rundle. Over the course of 15 minutes, we will explore the ins and outs of this robust, industry-leading ILS—and equip you with the tools you need to make the most of it. Add new moves to your playbook and join the Pro’s in the dugout. Complete both parts to become a Horizon Champion!

This 15-minute webinar will focus on:

How to search remote catalogs and import bibliographic information to your server a single record at a time.

Discuss how to save bibliographic information to a file.

And more!

Don’t forget! To become a Horizon Champion Series graduate and receive your certificate of completion, you must also attend or watch the second episode of this mini-series. Register for that episode here.

About the Series

The Horizon Champion series is a 2-part mini-series where each 15 minute episode will spotlight functionality that will help you become a Horizon Champion. Complete both parts to become a Champion series graduate!

CloudSource OA Product Deep Dive Demo
2023-09-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-29 12:00 - 13:00 and 2 more dates
Join our CloudSource experts for an in-depth look at our newest OER and OA content solution. These deep dive sessions will walk you through CloudSource and how it can benefit your library by expanding your collections and saving you money. Register now to get all your CloudSource questions answered!

BLUECloud Circulation Tips & Tricks
2023-09-27 13:00 - 13:30
Join us for a 15-minute tour of BLUEcloud Circulation, an intuitive web-based interface that allows you to effortlessly manage patron data, checkouts, check-ins, holds, and more.

In this second installment in a three-part series, Product Manager Carla Clark will:

Highlight two patron registration options: fast adding a patron and full patron registration.

Demonstrate how to manage all stages of the patron life cycle, including registration, checking for duplicates, copying patrons, and deleting patrons.

Provide an inside look at the Patron Information pane and review how to update a patron within it.

Get your questions answered and see how BLUEcloud Circulation can support staff at the circ desk and beyond. Register today.

Open Access Series for Academics: Supporting Career and Technical Education (CTE) with Open Access in Academic Libraries
2023-10-12 13:30 - 14:00
Open access (OA) content allows unrestricted access and reuse, making it free to read and use without a paid subscription. To learn more about this rapidly evolving trend in scholarly publishing—and why it’s important to academic libraries—join us for a free 30-minute webinar with Jill Blades, Executive Account Manager of Content Solutions.

Over the course of this webinar, we will:

Highlight current academic library trends in open access.

Share resources related to CTE.

Show libraries how to add high-quality, freely available CTE content to their collections to support student and faculty research—content that has lived behind paywalls until now.

Get the scoop on saving with open access—and see how CloudSource OA can equip your learning community with CTE content that both informs and inspires. Register today.

About the Series

The Open Access Speaker Series for Academic Libraries will help librarians get acquainted with OA and the ways it can benefit their students. Whether you’re familiar with OA or just starting your journey, this series will ensure you have all the need-to-know information at your fingertips. The OA movement continues to grow exponentially across the globe, increasing the need for academic libraries to stay up to date with their collections and database organization. This series will help libraries develop their collections and provide high-quality, freely accessible content to their students.

Horizon Champion Series - Episode 2: Setting up a New Import_Source
2023-10-18 13:00 - 13:15
The Champion series—a two-part certification series offering key insights into product functionality—is back! Learn to navigate Horizon like a seasoned pro in this second installment with Consultant & Trainer Jake Rundle. Over the course of 15 minutes, we will explore the ins and outs of this long-standing, vibrant ILS—and equip you with the tools you need to make the most of it.

Add new moves to your playbook and join the pros in the dugout. Complete both parts to become a Horizon Champion!

This 15-minute webinar will focus on a one-stop shop for setting up a new import_source in Horizon for:

Bibs

Bibs and Items

Bibs and PO Lines

Register today and take the final step into becoming a Horizon Champion. Don’t forget to watch Episode 1 so you can receive your Champion certificate!

About the Series

The Horizon Champion series is a 2-part mini-series where each 15 minute episode will spotlight functionality that will help you become a Horizon Champion. Complete both parts to become a Champion series graduate!

Connections 2023
2023-10-24 08:00 - 2023-10-26 17:00
Connections is a free, online conference open to library professionals worldwide—and everyone in your library is invited to attend!

Open Access Series for Academics: The Evolution of CloudSource OA
2023-11-09 13:30 - 14:00
Open access (OA) content allows unrestricted access and reuse, making it free to read and use without a paid subscription. To learn more about this rapidly evolving trend in scholarly publishing—and why it’s important to academic libraries—join us for a free 30-minute webinar with Executive Account Managers of Content Solutions Tina Beecroft and Jackie Golden.

Over the course of this webinar, you will:

Hear about the inspiration behind CloudSource OA.

Explore the rising popularity of open access content and trace the evolution of CloudSource OA, which has grown to an index of 60 million articles in just three years.

Learn how to become a better steward of your library’s budget.

Catch up on this exciting moment in open access publishing—and see how CloudSource can transform your library’s approach to eResource management. Register today.

About the Series

The Open Access Speaker Series for Academic Libraries will help librarians get acquainted with OA and the ways it can benefit their students. Whether you’re familiar with OA or just starting your journey, this series will ensure you have all the need-to-know information at your fingertips. The OA movement continues to grow exponentially across the globe, increasing the need for academic libraries to stay up to date with their collections and database organization. This series will help libraries develop their collections and provide high-quality, freely accessible content to their students.

Monthly EOS.Web VUGM
2023-11-16 12:00 - 12:30
Join fellow EOS.Web customers at this month’s Virtual Users Group Meeting. Come and hear from Jeff, Daniel, and Debi to learn more about product updates, monthly highlights, get a glimpse at the product roadmap, and have your questions answered live! Tune in to hear from the experts and stay up to date on everything EOS.Web!

This meeting will specifically cover:

How to Manage SDSC Roles and Permissions

EOS.Web Highlights

OPAC Email Setup and Troubleshooting

Don’t miss out on the chance to attend this month’s EOS.Web Virtual Users Group Meeting. Attend each month to stay up to date on the latest with your system and have any and all of your questions answered. Register today and come learn what’s going on and what’s to come for your EOS.Web system.

About the Series

User group meetings are monthly meetings for discussing EOS.Web updates and sharing information about its features. Hosted by Jeff Smith, VP of Customer Success, these webinars will familiarize you with the full range of capabilities for EOS.Web software. Learn more about what EOS.Web offers and how it can benefit your library and library users.

EOS.Web Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts: Cataloging and OPAC Search Index Management
2023-11-28 00:00 - 12:30
Join Senior EOS.Web Trainer Daniel Fitz-Enz for this presentation on Cataloging and OPAC. Daniel will discuss all things Cataloging and OPAC including recent developments and featured topics.

This webinar will cover:

Reasons to Add, Edit, Hide, or Remove a Search Index on your OPAC and Staff-side modules

Steps to Add, Edit, Hide, and Remove a Search Index

Steps to Add Indexes to Advanced Search

Attend Cataloging and OPAC Search Index Management and get your questions answered in this training webinar. Register today and come learn what’s going on with Cataloging and OPAC.

About the Series

These 30-minute tips and tricks webinars will help you get the most out of your EOS.Web tools. Learn new shortcuts and review favorites that you may have forgotten.

Shrinking Budgets and Expanding OA: A Case Study of One Library’s Strategic Approach to Overhauling its Collections
2023-11-28 13:00 - 14:00
Academic libraries have found themselves at the nexus of the OA paradigm shift during a time when they are facing increasing staffing and budgeting challenges. An R1 institution decided to take matters into their own hands to strategically analyze their collection and determine whether the research needs of their faculty and students could be served with an OA forward solution.

Join Ray Uzwyshyn, MSU’s Associate Dean of Collections Management and Strategy, along with CloudSource’s Rick Branham and Maryska Connolly as they discuss the changing landscape of open access and how CloudSource can help plan your OA strategy.

CloudSource OA, the new content discovery platform from SirsiDynix, aggregates and brings to light the global body of open access (OA) articles and open educational resources (OER). The index currently includes about 60M full-text open articles, eBooks, and other learning resources—and it is continuously growing. Unlike Google Scholar and other discovery providers, CloudSource OA resources contain one-click access to full text—no user authentication required and no wading through millions of irrelevant results with misleading links. Come to this session to learn more about how CloudSource OA delivers:

Access to not just gold and diamond journals, but peer-reviewed content from hybrid journals that most discovery services will not expose unless you subscribe to these publications.

Metadata enrichment to provide detailed publication information, subjects, abstracts, author affiliations, related articles, and reviews.

Helpful widgets deliver permalinks, citation management, publisher links, ILL requests, print holdings, and more.

Staff tools for curating the collections and running usage stats in COUNTER format.

A free collection analysis of your current subscriptions—revealing how much of what you pay for is actually open and free to use.

BLUEcloud Circulation Tips & Tricks: A Transformative User Experience
2023-11-29 14:00 - 14:15
Join us for a 15-minute tour of BLUEcloud Circulation, an intuitive web-based interface that allows you to effortlessly manage patron data, checkouts, check-ins, holds, and more.

In this third installment in a four-part series, Product Manager Carla Clark will:

Review the BLUEcloud Circulation page layout and zero in on the patron card, where you can easily interact with basic patron information.

Learn about common patron alerts and how to quickly acknowledge and resolve them.

Discover other page navigation options—including Items, Bills, and Holds—and the tasks they help accomplish.

Get your questions answered and see how BLUEcloud Circulation can support staff at the circ desk and beyond. Register today.

EOS.Web Advanced Product Focus - Circulation Usage – Comparative Analysis Report
2023-11-30 12:00 - 12:30
Come and learn more about what your EOS.Web Circulation Reports product can do for you! Join Senior EOS.Web Trainer, Daniel Fitz-Enz for Circulation Usage – Comparative Analysis Report. Daniel will feature EOS.Web and how it can benefit your library.

This webinar will specifically cover:

How to Use the Comparative Analysis Report

Circulation Statistics Report Details

Tips and Tricks to be Aware of

Attend Circulation Usage – Comparative Analysis Report and get your questions answered in this training webinar. Register today and come learn what’s going on with EOS.Web.

About the Series

These webinars help to educate you on specific functions and capabilities of individual EOS.Web products. Presented by experienced Product Specialists, these webinars will familiarize you with your EOS.Web software and keep you up to date on new features and developments. Learn more about what EOS.Web offers and how you can take advantage of each effective tool.

Building BLUEcloud Discovery: Search Strategy and UX Wireframes
2023-12-06 13:00 - 13:30
Eager to learn more about BLUEcloud Discovery, SirsiDynix’s next discovery solution? Want a behind-the-scenes look at the product development process?

Join Discovery Product Manager Adam Viator for this brand-new webinar series exploring the future of BLUEcloud Discovery. In each 15-minute session, Adam will chart the course of the forthcoming discovery platform, which is currently in development, and take you along for the ride by sharing the latest development updates, user experience (UX) designs, and insights into the product’s strategic direction.

In this third webinar in the series, you will:

Receive a brief overview of BLUEcloud Discovery and the vision behind it.

Zero in on the search strategy for BLUEcloud Discovery.

Review UX wireframes for search results within CloudSource OA, our comprehensive collection of all known global open access content.

Get your questions answered and glimpse into the future of discovery at SirsiDynix. Register today.

BLUEcloud Mobile2: Announcing the Virtual Pilot
2023-12-07 13:00 - 13:20
Want to learn more about BLUEcloud Mobile2, our new, next-generation mobile application? Eager to stay in the loop on forthcoming functionality and roadmap updates?

Join us as Chief Marketing Officer Eric Keith and BLUEcloud Mobile Product Manager James Goodman introduce the “Exploring BLUEcloudMobile 2: Virtual Pilot” program. Available to all customers, regardless of whether they are participating in an existing pilot, Virtual Pilot webinars will provide up-to-the-minute news on the development of BLUEcloud Mobile2 every Wednesday, from next week through launch.

Follow along to:

Explore the ins-and-outs of the series—and its benefits—from brief demos to meaningful updates on new features and timelines.

Hear directly from James about the current state of BLUEcloud Mobile2.

Get answers to customers’ most frequently asked questions, on both BLUEcloud Mobile2 and related pilot programs.

Journey with us as we enter this exciting next chapter in BLUEcloudMobile’s story—and help us usher in a new era of mobile discovery. Register today.

About the Series

The Library Professional Series provides training on topics such as librarianship, common or new issues libraries face, and industry concerns. These webinars are an excellent resource for furthering one’s knowledge and professional skills in an ever-changing industry.

Community Engagement (CEP) Product Overview
2023-12-07 13:00 - 13:30
Curious about the Community Engagement Platform (CEP)? Want to learn more about what CEP can do for you?

Streamline your library’s marketing strategy and expand your impact.

The Community Engagement Platform (CEP) is a comprehensive resource that integrates seamlessly with data from your ILS to bolster your library’s marketing efforts. From targeted email campaigns and custom landing pages to robust reporting capabilities, CEP equips you with the tools you need to reach and connect with patrons.

To learn more about the basic ins and outs of CEP, join Pre-Sales Consultant Allison Rand for this free, 30-minute overview.

In this webinar, we will cover how to:

Send welcome emails, newsletters, and other updates and announcements with easy-to-use email templates.

Boost open rates and patron engagement by sending specific, targeted messages with dynamic contact lists called Segments.

Create targeted, multistage campaigns with CEP’s flexible Campaign Builder.

Register today to get your questions answered and see how CEP can help transform your library’s approach to marketing.

About the Series

Product webinars spotlight the functions and capabilities of individual SirsiDynix products. Presented by experienced Product Specialists, these webinars will familiarize you with the full range of SirsiDynix software. Learn more about what SirsiDynix offers and how you can take advantage of each effective tool.

Three Things Every Librarian Should Know About Open Access Content
2023-12-12 13:00 - 14:00
The academic publishing landscape is changing rapidly, and open access is becoming increasingly more relevant across all library types and sizes. Can your library incorporate this wealth of content into your eResource management strategy? And how can it be leveraged to save money and satisfy faculty and users’ research needs?

In this hourlong webinar, three academic library professionals—Betsy Garloch of Gannon University, Cathy Austin of Mississippi State University, and Linda Barr of Austin Community College—weigh in on this important and timely topic. Join us as we explore further—and reveal three things that every librarian should know about OA.

You’ll learn:

Where most OA content is published and how to aggregate it in a single location.

How CloudSource OA, the new content discovery platform from SirsiDynix, delivers access to gold and diamond journals as well as peer-reviewed content from hybrid journals.

Why Gannon University, Mississippi State University, and Austin Community College decided to adopt CloudSource OA—and what it means for their respective communities.

BLUEcloud Circulation Tips & Tricks: A Transformative User Experience
2023-12-13 13:00 - 13:30
Join us for a 15-minute tour of BLUEcloud Circulation, an intuitive web-based interface that allows you to effortlessly manage patron data, checkouts, check-ins, holds, and more.

In this final installment in a four-part series with Product Manager Carla Clark, you will:

Home in on holds, including viewing and tailoring the Holds Pull List and overseeing items on your Holds Shelf.

Explore your options for checking the status of an item or marking an item as used.

See how easy it is to scan and receive in-transit items and update their status.

Get your questions answered and see how BLUEcloud Circulation can support staff at the circ desk and beyond. Register today.

BLUEcloud Mobile2: Weekly Virtual Pilot Program Webinar
2023-12-13 13:00 - 13:30
Looking to learn more about the development of BLUEcloud Mobile2? Want to be among the first to explore the app’s new features and functionality?

Join product expert James Goodman for SirsiDynix’s first-ever Virtual Pilot program, and witness firsthand the evolution of this new, next-generation mobile application. Held weekly and available to all customers, these 30-minute sessions will provide you with meaningful, up-to-the-minute insights on the development process from now until launch.

In this inaugural Virtual Pilot webinar, you will:

Zero in on the login and customization experience, from biometric authentication and “Create Account” access to branding and color changes.

Discover the latest updates to the product roadmap.

Preview estimated timelines for the initial release of BLUEcloud Mobile2—and beyond.

The future of mobile discovery is now; let’s explore it together. Register today.

About the Series

Held weekly and available to all customers, these 30-minute sessions will provide you with meaningful, up-to-the-minute insights on the development process of BLUEcloud Mobile2 from now until launch.

Adventures in Symphony Data Control: Tips and Tricks from the University of Virginia Library
2023-12-13 13:00 - 13:30
You already know what Data Control looks like on paper: it’s an intuitive, browser-based graphic interface, and it allows for the construction of queries, batch modification of records, and editing of individual record fields. But what does Data Control look like in practice? And how are libraries like yours leveraging it to tackle tasks and take control of their data?

Join us as Mark Witteman, Integrated Library Systems Engineer at the University of Virginia (UVA) Library, and Melissa Kulmer, Director of Pre-Sales Solutions, discuss UVA’s unique approach to Data Control—and share tips and tricks for your library along the way.

During this interactive, 30-minute webinar, you will learn:

How the UVA Library team uses Data Control to complete specific projects.

When and why to use Data Control in conjunction with other tools that can produce Symphony record IDs, like BLUEcloud Analytics reports.

The ways Data Control security controls can help administrators introduce staff in stages to querying, individual record editing, batch editing, and more.

Come with questions or specific use cases of your own. Leave with fresh ideas on how to harness the power of Data Control. Register today.

Does your library use Data Control? Have a success story you’d like to share with us? Email your Library Relations Manager or contact us at marketing@sirsidynix.com for a chance to be featured in an upcoming webinar.

Knowledge for Everyone: How Open Access in Discovery Furthers Your Library’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Goals
2023-12-14 11:00 - 12:00
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has been widely adopted by academia as a goal—it is even being added to accreditation standards. Open Access (OA) content promises equitable access without paywall barriers, thus helping to level the playing field for users without privilege. OA supports and inspires researchers in underprivileged groups and regions—diversifying the voice of the resulting research. OA also allows alumni a vast, easily-accessible resource for lifelong learning.

Join us to explore these ideas and others with a panel of librarians that are on the front lines of using OA to help move the needle on DEI at their institutions.
