Topic Ideas for ELUNA Presentations submitted by Customers in previous years

(in no particular order)

ALEPH and/or Voyager

• Integration with course management systems
• Integration with E-reserve systems
• Consortial joint catalogs
• Patron requests such as recalls, requests for delivery, ILL, storage
• Workflows
• Reporting, SQL interfaces for generating reports, etc., mysteries of ARC and Cognos, writing queries for Access reports, University of Georgia Voyager Reporting System
• Integration with ILL software, such as ILLiad
• Podcasting and streaming video within the catalog
• Public interface configuration
• Global change
• Database cleanup
• Authority control
• Add-on products
• Practical solutions for fixing inefficiencies in the Serials module
• Integration with course management systems, e.g., Moodle, Sakai
• Integration with ILL systems, e.g., Clio Advanced, ILLiad
• Tips for upgrading to the latest ILS version
• Course reserves
• Perl DBI scripting with the ILS
• EDI
• Verde/ILS interactions and integration
• Cataloging archival materials

DigiTool

• Interface customization, integration with institutional websites
• Integration with Aleph, MetaLib, Primo, third-party products
• Courseware support
• Digital preservation
• Innovative uses of the latest METS and ALTO enhancements
• Best practices case studies

MetaLib

• Searching, e.g. external search programs
• Embedding MetaLib in course management systems, web portals
• Usage data and patterns
• Usability testing
• Information literacy and MetaLib
• Crossover between SFX and MetaLib
• Future of ebooks in SFX and MetaLib, both in terms of openURL linking and management of URLs
• Building custom interfaces and services using the X-Server

Primo

• Planning for Primo -- what is needed?
• Primo normalization rules: changes sites have made and why?
• Evaluating the user experience

SFX

• Usage data
• Using SFX in course reserves
• Direct Linking to a target (bypassing SFX menu)
• SFX & EZproxy and/or RefWorks, EndNote
• SFX API in general and using it for various purposes
• Future of ebooks in SFX and MetaLib, both in terms of openURL linking and management of URLs

Verde

• Planning for Verde – what is needed?
• Best practices and baby steps for getting started
• Importing information/data loaders
• How to handle standalone databases with Verde
• Linking SFX and Verde
• Migration from Meridian to Verde
• Changing workflows
• Verde/ILS interactions and integration
• Verde reports

Other

• Strategic issues in libraries
• Innovative projects
• Best practices case studies
• Planning for disaster recovery
• Keeping information across systems synchronized
• Authentication
• Migrating from Endeavor products to Ex Libris products
• Campus portal integration
• MARCit!
• X server
• Using third-party products with Ex Libris products
• Using SSL, openssl, Apache using SSL
• Securing public machines and servers
• EZProxy configuration
• Inventory: best ways to do it, how to interpret results, actions to take based on results
• Outcomes of the Ex Libris ebook focus group
• How to populate knowledge bases with metadata for ebooks, both licensed and mass digitized