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+====== 2015 Proposals ======
 The 2015 Evergreen International Conference is May 13-16, 2015 in Hood River, Oregon.  The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, Feburary 27, 2015.
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 **Presenter(s):** Angela Kilsdonk (akilsdonk@esilibrary.com), Education Manager, Equinox Software
+==== Authority Control in Evergreen: The Straight Dope (Back by request! Previously presented at 2014 Conference) ====
+**Description:** Authorities are dope, yo. Used properly, they simplify cataloging and increase patron access to materials through improved discovery capabilities. During this session we will discuss exactly how authority control works in Evergreen and how best to make use of the advanced capabilities that Evergreen provides. We will cover browse integration, automatic record overlay, authority generation, bibliographic and inter-authority record linking, Control Sets and their configuration, and how to make use of local, extra-LoC data and expertise to leverage the full potential of Evergreen’s authority control feature set.  We will also discuss possible “wish list” features to gauge the priorities of the community for future development.
+**Technical Expertise:** Low to Moderate
+**Presenter(s):** Mike Rylander (miker@esilibrary.com), President, Equinox Software and Angela Kilsdonk (akilsdonk@esilibrary.com, Education Manager, Equinox Software
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 **Presenter(s):** Benjamin Shum (bshum@biblio.org), Evergreen Systems Manager, Bibliomation, Erica Rohlfs (erohlfs@esilibrary.com), Project Manager, Equinox Software, Inc. (ESI), and TBD
+====Oh! The Places Acquisitions Can Go!====
+**Description:**
+>>>You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.  You’ll get mixed up of course, as you already know.  You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go.  So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that life’s a great balancing act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)
+>>>--__Oh the Places You’ll Go__, Dr. Seuss.
+Acquisitions users have long development wish lists.  In this session, we  will facilitate a discussion of Acquisitions users’ top ten development wishes and produce  a collaborative, prioritized development list of five.  We will also begin requirements and use case gathering  toprepare a requirements document for the community to share and use while seeking development funding and to propel Acquisitions forward in a way that will benefit the entire community.
+**Presenter(s):** Leslie St. John, Georgia Public Library Service, PINES Acquisitions Consultant, lstjohn@georgialibraries.org; J. Elaine Hardy, Georgia Public Library Services, PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager, ehardy@georgialibraries.org
+**Technical Expertise:** Low to Moderate
 ==== Adding Data Sources to the Reporter ====
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 **Presenter(s):** Grace Dunbar (grace@esilibrary.com), Vice President, Equinox Software
 ==== Evergreen and Design: From UX to UI ====
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 **Presenter(s):** Dan Wells (dbw2@calvin.edu), Library Programmer/Analyst, Hekman Library (Calvin College)
+==== Getting what you want in your next development project ====
+Hooray! You've finally raised the funds you need for the new enhancement you want to roll into Evergreen. You contract with a developer, the work is done, and, after taking a quick look at it, you approve the final project, looking forward to the day when you upgrade to a release where you can use the feature. When the time arrives, though, you discover that it doesn't work exactly the way you expected or contains bugs that weren't discovered in light testing. In this session, we'll look at ways to make sure you really get what you want out of your next development project by learning how to clearly communicate project requirements and how to thoroughly test the final code.
+**Technical Expertise:** None
+**Presenter:** Kathy Lussier (klussier@masslnc.org), Project Coordinator, Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
 =====Technical Track=====
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 **Presenter(s):** Benjamin Shum (bshum@biblio.org), Evergreen Systems Manager, Bibliomation and Jason Stephenson (jstephenson@mvlc.org), Assistant Director for Technology Services, Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC)
-==== An Introduction to Automated Evergreen Configuration with Ansible: ====
+==== An Introduction to Automated Evergreen Configuration with Ansible ====
 **Description:** Building a large Evergreen installation can involve installing various components on many servers. How do you do this consistently without making mistakes? Scripts are one way, but how do you make further changes to the system without keeping a large library of scripts that have to be run in just the right order? A configuration management system can automate everything from virtual machine provisioning to updating your opac templates, while being idempotent means that changes can be made at any time and the system will always end up in the expected state. This talk will focus on using the Ansible management system but most of the concepts apply to other popular systems such as Puppet, Chef, and Salt.
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 ==== Catalog: What a mess! ====
-**Description:** Do you suffer from large print syndrome? Do you experience 856 pains from the subfield z? Do you wake up and find that your DVD icons have decided to be phonograph? Have you noticed that search results look redundant? Then this is for you! I am sure we all struggle to keep items attached to the right things. This is a programmatic approach to solve the problem. We will speak in detail about how we solved this issue and created software to distill the information. We will show code and queries so bring your code parser and query planner TI-85.
+**Description:** Do you suffer from large print syndrome? Do you experience 856 pains from the subfield z? Do you wake up and find that your DVD icons have decided to be phonograph? Have you noticed that search results look redundant? Then this is for you! I am sure we all struggle to keep items attached to the right things. This is a programmatic approach to solve the problem. We will speak in detail about how we solved this issue and created software to distill the information. We would like to share the employed algorithms that we used to turn perl and SQL into a catalog cleanup aid. We will show code and queries so bring your code parser and query planner TI-85.
 **Technical Expertise:** Moderate to High
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 for how long; and how to integrate Evergreen with other software
 securely.
+//Note: this presentation could also be done with an emphasis suitable for the general track.//
 **Technical Expertise:** Low to medium
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 **Presenter:** Galen Charlton (gmc@esilibrary.com), Infrastructure and Added Services Manager, Equinox Software
+==== Evergreen Search Tune-up:  Tips and tricks to taking the default search indexes and making them more awesome ====
+Evergreen offers sites a lot of flexibility in adjusting the default indexes that are used for search. In this session, MassLNC Project Coordinator Kathy Lussier will offer a peak into the database to demonstrate how the default search indexes are configured, show where to go when determinig why a particular search didn't work as expected, and discuss the factors that make some records more relevant than others on the results page. She'll also demonstrate how to configure new indexes, either to accommodate a field not covered by the default index or to make specific MARC fields more relevant than others.
+**Technical Expertise:** Medium
+**Presenter** Kathy Lussier (klussier@masslnc.org), Project Coordinator, Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative