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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.
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.
Standard presentations will be 45 minutes in length and allow for a broad spectrum of programming in one of the following tracks:
- End user - best practices and techniques for using Evergreen in day-to-day library operations.
- General - programs on administration, training, making the decision to move to Evergreen, participating in the Evergreen community, and other topics related to using Evergreen and open source software in consortial and standalone environments.
- Technical - Topics related to system administration, software development, implementation, hardware, and integration with other software.
Tutorials will be 2 to 3 hours in length and should cover topics of interest to technical users and end users.
End User Track
SQL for Librarians
Description: End User and/or Technical Track.
Any good reference librarian wants to know exactly where their data comes from and with your ILS's data being crucial, why trust it to a reporter that shapes it for you? Learn the power of not only the basics of the structured query language to read and manipulate Evergreen's database but learn how you can teach yourself.
Presenter Presented by Rogan Hamby (SCLENDS) who in fact taught himself SQL and is now only mildly incompetent!
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."
General Track
Evergreen, its more than just software....
Description Coordination and collaboration are key ingredients when building a successful consortium. I will explain how NC Cardinal, North Carolina’s Evergreen Consortium, developed workflows which enabled 20% of North Carolina’s public libraries to migrate to Evergreen in a very short timeframe. In anticipation of rapid future growth, we are conducting the following activities: increasing the efficiency of the existing organizational structure, re-focusing current training programs, fine-tuning migration processes, and implementing improved resource sharing policies. I will discuss each of these above activities in terms of what works today, what did not work, and how we plan to work in the future.
Presenter Tanya Prokrym, State Library of North Carolina
Session Length Standard 45-minute session
Technical Track
It’s Funny Afterwards: Technical Tales of Tragedy… and Recovery
Description It happens to every library, sometimes during a migration, sometimes during routine events but something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Sometimes the alert comes from an automated text message and sometimes it’s from a phone call with a harried voice on the other end. We almost always hear the music from horror movies starting in our heads. And every long-time admin has at least a few of these stories. Come to hear strange tales of disaster and stranger tales of recoveries both from the presenters and gathered from the wider community - anonymity guaranteed to protect the guilty. Expect one part technology and one part dark slapstick.
Presenters Galen Charlton (Equinox Software) & Rogan Hamby (SCLENDS)
Session Length Standard 45-minute session
Additional note Part of our plan is to not only share our own stories but actively and anonymously solicit stories from other members of the community. Part of the intention of this is to build on a valuable dynamic we observed during our past two There and Back Again presentations where people really benefited from sharing stories in a large setting.