eLGARnet Live...Part 2

Auckland, North Shore, Papakura, Rodney and Waitakere libraries' staff are now connected to eLGARnet.

As you log in for the first time, please remember to add an alert to the announcements list found on the home page. This will allow you to keep up to date with various announcements.

Also, please visit the eLGARnet Help & FAQ section as this contains some useful information.

eLGARnet Access

If you want access to eLGARnet, please email eLGARnet Support .

You will be sent a User Request Form to complete, upon which and your userid and password will be emailed to you.

The User Reqeust form is also found on the eLGARnet Help page.

eLGARnet Live

eLGARnet, the SharePoint based collaborative eLGAR workspace is now live and accessible by library staff from Auckland, Waitakere, Papakura and North Shore. Rodney should be live by Mon 31 Aug.

Access for Manukau is pending a DNS entry change.

All staff belonging to eLGAR Collaborative Teams or known to belong to a Community of Interest have been automatically set up. As libraries/councils connect, login and password details are being emailed to respective individuals.

Information/Training sessions are being organized for libraries and calendar invites will be sent as the dates/times are finalized.

Why collaborate?

....some compelling reasons in this blog post The collaboration matrix from the man who brought us The power of less

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.