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-The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2014 conference is **October 31, 2013**. Modifications to these proposals can be made through October 31, 2013. At that time, the Conference Program Committee will be soliciting feedback from the community on the proposals. Please follow the guidelines at http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/eg14/proposals/ to submit a proposal.
+====== 2014 Proposals ======
-Collaboration among presenters is encouraged. If you see a proposal here that is similar to something for which you were considering a presentation, feel free to contact the presenter about the possibility of doing a joint presentation.
+The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2014 conference has passed. No modifications can be made to these proposals until the feedback period is over.
+The Evergreen Conference Program Committee is asking community members who are likely to go to this year's conference to fill out the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eg14-program-selection to let us know which of the proposed programs you would like to see at this year's conference.
+The feedback will not only be useful as we select programs, but will also give us an idea for which programs we should expect to see high attendance.
+There is no limit to the number of programs you can select in the survey. We ask that you consider the following criteria when selecting programs:
+  * Would you be interested in attending the program?
+  * Do you think the program will provide useful information?
+  * Does the program provide new information that hasn't been covered before?
+  * Will the program provide some value to the Evergreen community?
+The feedback will just be one factor used by the Program Committee when selecting programs.
 Standard presentations will be 45 minutes in length and allow for a broad spectrum of programming in one of the following tracks:
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 =====End User Track=====
+====Academic Reserves with a Drizzle of Syrup====
+**Description:** With 20 academic libraries in two different library consortia, MassLNC had a need for a solid course reserves system before moving to Evergreen. The Syrup Course Reserves System, developed by Art Rhyno and Graham Fawcett at the University of Windsor (Conifer), offered a full-featured solution for a reserves management system that was also tightly integrated with Evergreen. Library staff can scan item barcodes to add titles to a course reserves list; update Evergreen parameters (circ modifiers, copy locations, call numbers) from the Syrup interface; and authentic users against the Evergreen database. This session will provide an overview of Syrup, including initial installation and configuration, integration with Evergreen, and daily workflow for using Syrup in a library.
+**Technical Expertise:** Low to Moderate
+**Presenter:** Kathy Lussier, Coordinator, Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (MassLNC)
+**Session length:** Standard 45-minute session
 ====Authority Control in Evergreen====
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 Standard 45-minute Session
-====Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About Billing====
+====Hello Reports! Stumbling Towards the Data You Need====
-**Description:**
-Demonstration of patron bills. How to bill a patron, how bills can be paid, how refunds are issued, how payment type does not affect the refund process, and how to void bills.
-**Presenter:**
+**Description:** Reports in Evergreen are quite powerful. Yet, developing a report is often like wandering through a maze of sources, fields, data types, etc., until you get the results you need. This session will be an introduction to the report module, covering the basics of report generation. We’ll cover topics such as managing folders, choosing sources, filtering results, and sharing reports with other users.  The session will be based on version 2.4
-Dawn Dale, PINES Helpdesk Manager, Georgia Public Library Service
-**Sessions Length:**
+**Presenters:** \\
-Standard 45-minute Session
+Chauncey Montgomery, Director/Fiscal Officer, Community Library (Sunbury, Ohio) \\
+Jessica Venturo, Applications Support Specialist, Bibliomation, Inc.
+**Session Length:** Tutorial
+====The Import/Export Business: Working with Vandelay in Evergreen====
+**Description:** MARC Batch Import in Evergreen, also known as Vandelay, allows the import of MARC records and holdings into your catalog.  In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of uploading and importing MARC records in Evergreen.  We will discuss how to set up and use Merge/Overlay Profiles, Record Match Sets, and Holdings Import Profiles.  This session will also cover how to export records from Evergreen.  You will leave this tutorial with an understanding of how to set up and effectively use MARC Batch Import to achieve an efficient cataloging workflow for your library.
+**Presenter:** Angela Kilsdonk, Education Manager, Equinox Software Inc.
+**Session length:** Tutorial
 ====Introduction to Evergreen: Staff Client and Local Administration====
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 **Presenter:**
 Erica Rohlfs, Education Specialist, Equinox Software, Inc
+Dawn Dale, PINES Helpdesk Manager, Georgia Public Library Service
 **Sessions Length:**
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 **Session Length:**
 I can do this in the 45 minute or tutorial track.  I would prefer the longer time but a shorter time would be enough to give a "taste of sql."
+====Taking the Ack Out of Acquisitions====
+**Description:** An in-depth look into using the Acquisitions Module.  Covering the initial administrative set-up,  typical selecting, ordering, receiving, and invoicing workflows, and running fiscal year end.  Looking at 2.4 or later.
+**Presenter:** Jennifer Pringle, Sitka Support, BC Libraries Cooperative
+**Note:** I am very interested in partnering with someone else using acquisitions for this tutorial.
+**Session length:** Tutorial (2 1/2 hours)
+**Presumed Technical Level:** Experience with basic Evergreen staff client functions (ie. searching the catalogue)
+====What’s New in Evergreen 2.X?====
+**Description:** Is your library considering an upgrade to version 2.X?  Are you curious about the latest and greatest features in Evergreen?  This session will provide an overview of new features and functionality in the Evergreen staff client and OPAC.  Come check out the future of Evergreen!
+**Presenter:** Angela Kilsdonk, Education Manager, Equinox Software Inc.
+**Session length:** 45 minutes
+**Additional note:** This session will cover new features in the most recent release of Evergreen.  If a beta version of 2.6 is released before the conference, I can cover new features in 2.6 with the understanding that there may still be some bugs.
 =====General Track=====
+====Assessment of Staff Needs and Satisfaction in an Evergreen environment====
+**Description:**
+Planning the future of Evergreen in your library or consortium? Are you listening to everyone? Gaining perspective and buy-in from all users is crucial to the successful implementation of your plan. This session focuses on the assessment of staff needs and satisfaction, from the director’s office to the circulation desk. A summary of NC Cardinal’s own initiative from conception to completion provides a backdrop to the key elements of conducting such an assessment. Attendees will leave with practical information for administering a survey, including articulating assessment objectives, designing an Evergreen-centric survey instrument, marketing the survey, obtaining results, and interpreting the data.
+**Presenter:**
+David Green, State Library of North Carolina, NC Cardinal Data Specialist
+**Session length:**
+Standard 45-minute session
+**Presumed technical level of audience:**
+None
+**Accessibility requirements:**
+None
+====Being the Cat-herder: Managing an Open Source Software Release==
+**Description:**
+Evergreen 2.5 Release Manager Dan Wells (Library Programmer/Analyst at Calvin College) and Koha 3.14 Release Manager Galen Charlton (Manager of Implementation at Equinox) will discuss the fine art of release management, including how to coordinate the efforts of contributors to an open source ILS without being the big boss, when to say yes, and when to say no.  Attendees will gain an understanding of how a release gets formed and how both users and developers can help.
+**Presenters:**\\
+Galen Charlton, Manager of Implementation at Equinox\\
+Daniel Wells, Library Programmer/Analyst at Calvin College
+**Session Length:** Standard 45-minute session
 ====Evergreen is not an island: sharing lessons from and with other projects====
 **Description:**
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 **Session Length:**
 Standard 45-minute session
+====Implementing and Supporting the Acquisitions Module in Sitka====
+**Description:** Getting ready to implement the Acquisitions module at your library or consortium?   Learn how the Sitka consortium implemented Acquisitions across libraries of all shapes and sizes over the last four years.  Detailing the journey from the initial pilot library to supporting more than 13 libraries across the consortium this session looks at the challenges and triumphs of implementing as well as the tools used for ongoing support of the libraries using acquisitions.
+**Presenter:** Jennifer Pringle, Sitka Support, BC Libraries Cooperative
+**Session length:** Standard 45-minute session
+**Presumed Technical Level:** None
+====Is Getting There Half the Fun? Leadership and Change Management from Top to Bottom in Migrating to Evergreen====
+**Description:** Leading and managing through a migration to Evergreen can be a challenge at all levels of a library system, whether at a consortial center or an individual institution. The needs of everyone engaged in the migration process cover ground that may not be familiar to everyone, may call on people to adopt new attitudes and behaviors, and go beyond good project planning and solid technical expertise. How do you deal with all of it? In this session, drawing on the experience of multiple Evergreen migrations and successful leadership and change management practices, you will get a comprehensive toolkit to take away covering each level and every phase of a migration from conception to post-rollout. The session will address the top to bottom needs of those charged with leading and managing change within various levels of organizations and between partners in a consortial settings.
+**Presenter:** Jim Keenan is currently a member of the management team at the C/W MARS consortium in Massachusetts and business consultant who has worked with several organizations, including the Integral Institute.
+**Technical Level of Intended Audience:** Layperson with management experience at any level or who anticipates management responsibilities
+**Session length:** Standard 45-minute session
 ====License to ILL: How Equinox Turned Evergreen 2.0 Into FulfILLment™, an Open Source Resource Sharing Platform====
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 J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager, Georgia Public Library Service/PINES \\
 Chris Sharp, PINES System Administrator, Georgia Public Library Service/PINES
+**Track:** General or Technical
 **Session Length:**
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 ====Consider the KPAC: Implement and Customize the Children's Catalog====
-**Description**
+**Description:**
 Learn how Bibliomation, one of the original development partners of the KPAC (Children's Catalog), worked with children's and school librarians to build and implement an easy-to-use, child-friendly, visual discovery interface for the OPAC. Learn how PINES customized the default KPAC with their own graphics and expanded the functionality to meet the needs of their 275+ public library branches. Bibliomation will provide a brief overview of KPAC implementation and configuration, and PINES will provide tips on customizing it for your own library.
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 Amy Terlaga, Assistant Director, User Services - Bibliomation, Inc.
-**Sessions Length:**
+**Session Length:**
 Standard 45-minute session
+====Evergreen Availability Monitoring: An introduction to monitoring the availability of your Evergreen installation====
+**Description:**
+This workshop is for Evergreen system administrators who want to
+decrease their reaction time to incidents within their Evergreen
+systems, manage small incidents before they become critical, and get
+more sleep at night knowing that everything is running smoothly.
+Although the focus is on Nagios, the intention is to discuss principles
+of monitoring, using Nagios as an example.
+**Presenter:**
+Michael Tate, Equinox Software, Inc.
+**Session length:** Standard 45-minute session
 ====Exploring a Browser-Based Staff Client====
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 **Presenter:** Galen Charlton, Equinox Software, Inc.
+**Session Length:** Tutorial
+====Installing Evergreen: Long Version====
+**Description:** An overview of different ways to install the Evergreen ILS software for testing or production instances.  A participatory demonstration and Q & A session for those wanting to build an Evergreen test server and would like some guidance about how it's done and how it might be used. Presenters Ben Shum from Bibliomation and Chris Sharp from Georgia PINES will walk participants through the installation process beginning with a base Linux OS installation through setting up the staff client to work with your new test server.
+**Presenters:**\\
+Chris Sharp, PINES System Administrator, GPLS \\
+Benjamin Shum, Evergreen Systems Manager, Bibliomation
 **Session Length:** Tutorial
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 processes, and focuses particularly on continuous integration testing
 and how to develop more such tests for Evergreen, which is essential
-for us to gain any real advantage with that strategy.
+for us to gain any real advantage with that strategy. In addition,
+this presentation will cover the findings of the recent performance
+audit of the Evergreen infrastructure that was done to identify bottlenecks
+that were negatively impacting performance.
 **Presenter:** Jason Etheridge, Support Manager, Equinox Software
+**Additional Notes:** A second presenter to be determined will speak about the performance audit
 **Session Length:** Standard 45-minute session
+====Structured library data: holdings, libraries, and beyond====
+**Description:** Since the 2.2 release, Evergreen has published schema.org
+structured data from the TPAC by default, enabling search engines to
+understand what bibliographic records are available at your libraries.
+But important pieces, such as copy-level data, were missing. In this
+session, learn what Dan Scott has done with Evergreen as part of the
+W3C schema.org Bibliographic Extension community group efforts to
+publish more complete structured library data on the web. We'll show
+how the data that your library already manages in Evergreen--such as
+holdings, hours of operation, and branch locations--can be expressed
+in the schema.org vocabulary, and explore what that means for the
+future of libraries.
+**Audience level:** Intermediate
+**Presenter:** Dan Scott, Laurentian University, Systems Librarian
+**Session Length:** Standard 45-minute session