The eLGAR 6 - Papakura Goes Live

Today (Thu 6 Aug) morning at 9AM, Papakura Library opened its doors to patrons using Millennium.

With this, the technical integration of Papakura Library into the eLGAR Millennium solution can be considered as complete for all practical purposes. Papakura Library officially joined eLGAR in March.

Papakura Project enters the final lap

Check out this animated sequence for information!



PS: This animation is created using GoAnimate, another website for which there is an eLGAR account. Let us know how you feel about this animation using the blog comments.

eLGAR Reporting Support Ring

The eLGAR Collaborative Team for Statistics and Reporting, has a fairly specialized skill-set. The team members often hold primary responsibility for reporting for their libraries. So when someone goes on leave, especially for extended periods, it can create a void of expertise, at least in the immediate term.

Therefore, in our recent meeting, the Reporting Team resolved to make the team available to answer queries.

This way, if the reporting analyst for a library is on leave, and someone from their library has an urgent reporting related question, they can email the team by clicking here.

A member of the eLGAR Reporting team can then answer the query or execute the task, depending of course on the availability of the person and the nature of the request.

The members of the Reporting Team are:

• Prateek Vasisht - eLGAR
• Adriana Balea & Alison Fitzpatrick - Auckland
• Natalie Waters - Manukau
• Fran Fraser - North Shore
• Kim Taunga - Papakura
• Ed Charles - Rodney
• David Richardson - Waitakere

You can also save the emails listed in the hyperlink above to a distribution list in Outlook for easy reference later on.

And the winner is...

Headphones!

Yes, The most popular individual item over the last two years, based on eLGAR-wide Millennium "last year circ", was a set of headphones at Mangere East Library (354 issues).

Excluding equipment, the most popular individual items were:

1. Northcote free-loan DVD: "Lost worlds : life in the balance" (82 issues)
2. Highland Park Chinese magazine: "Kai fang magazine" (81 issues)
3. Highland Park Chinese magazine: "Xian dai jia ting" (75 issues)

Popular rental DVD's from Auckland Central (The Holiday, Secretary), Takapuna (Lions) and Glenfield (Africa) all clocked 74 issues.

DVD's issued at North Shore and Waitakere Libraries (Turkey, Ireland, The Devil Wears Prada) and Chinese magazines issued at Manukau Libraries rounded up the top five, with 73 issues each.

The top 3 picture books were:

1. Schnitzel von Krumm : dogs never climb trees / Lynley Dodd (2585 issues)
2. The other ark / Lynley Dodd (2514 issues)
3. Down the back of the chair / Margaret Mahy (2348 issues)

Acknowledgment & Credits: Based on figures provided by Rex McGregor (ACL).

IUG Conference 17th - 20th May 2009

For those who have a printed copy of the report, here are the hyperlinks mentioned

http://www.lib.vt.edu/services/newbooks/new-materials.php?subject=lnl_englit

http://phebe.bowdoin.edu/record=b1216643~s1

http://www.netsupportnotify.com/index.asp

It's Our Birthday

eLGAR is four years old today!

North Shore and Rodney went live with Millennium on the 16th June 2005.

Happy Birthday to you.

Less is more - New My Info Brochure

The My Info brochure has been redesigned. In response to the feedback received, the font size is now larger and the content is streamlined.

The information presented in the My Info and Pay Online brochures, is now condensed into one (new) My Info Brochure.

The format remains DLE and the original graphics and colour scheme are retained.