Weekly Update – March 6, 2012
Evergreen Indiana Membership Meeting
The 2012 Evergreen Indiana Membership Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Evergreen International Conference on Friday, April 27 from 11:30 to 1:00 PM at the Indiana State Library. Evergreen Indiana consortium members have the opportunity to order a box lunch from Indianapolis Premier Catering by filling out the attached lunch menu request and sending checks made out to Indianapolis Premier Catering or cash by Friday, April 20 to Shauna Borger, Indiana State Library, 140 North Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46204.
• The deadline to submit orders and payment is Friday, April 20.
• Attendance at the Evergreen International Conference is not required to attend the EI Membership Meeting.
• Please stay tuned to the Weekly Update blog for an agenda and minutes from the previous annual meeting.
Barcode orders
Just a reminder that you may place item and patron barcode orders beginning Monday, March 5 until Friday, March 9. The next time item and patron barcode orders can be placed will be May 7 through May 11.
The library will contact Creative DataProducts directly to place their order. Eventually, the vendor hopes to have an online ordering system but currently you will need to contact Cherrie Bishop at Creative DataProducts via email (cbishop@creativedataproducts.com) or telephone (800-951-7234, ext. 1310) with the following information:
• Item or patron barcodes?
• Quantity (There is a minimum order of 500 for both item and patron barcodes).
• Beginning barcode number.
• Library name, contact email and telephone number.
Registering a PLAC user
In order to provide an easier way to report on PLAC loans for the annual report, we have created a patron stat cat which includes a list of every public library in the state of Indiana along with the city and county in which they are located in parentheses. When registering a PLAC user, choose the home library of the patron from this drop-down list. At the end of the year, the EI System Admins will provide a report which will give each library the total PLAC loans your library should report for each public library in the state.