Suggestions for Presentations
The COSA Committee are looking for people willing to share their knowledge in a 30-minute session, either singly, in a joint presentation, or as part of a panel. If you have an idea you're willing to present, please contact either Nathan Turner or Janette Chin with details.
LMS Sessions
- 9xx ordering acquisitions
- Floating items – do you have a way to automatically balance collections?
- Symphony system administration
- Symphony system administration on SaaS
- Horizon system administration
- Managing serial control functions
BlueCloud Sessions
- BlueCloud Analytics
- Transitioning reports in Symphony to BLUEcloud Analytics - specifically, how people are actually using it - reports, dashboards, tips and tricks, etc.
Online Catalogue/Enterprise Sessions
- Enterprise CSS and theme customizations
- Migrating to Enterprise from E-library
- Obtaining stats from Enterprise using Google Analytics
- Online registration
- Using Enterprise as your library home page as well as your catalog
- Vufind and other alternative interfaces working with Symphony.
- Webservices - something practical on how to make use of the web services API
Non-LMS Sessions
- Creating customized tutorials and helps for patrons and/or staff
- Deployment/training plans for new clients (Blue cloud), and how to increase and measure foot traffic in libraries when many assets are going digital..
- Explaining technical information to non-techies
- How to use and/or archive social media
- Innovative ways that the software facilitated programming or impact of programming/communication for public users or staff.
- Open source solutions - VuFind, Book a Room (events calendar and meeting room software), WordPress in general.