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Important: Summer Reader 2011 Release Date Change

March 4th, 2011 mike

Dear Summer Reader Customers:

As we prepared to formally launch Summer Reader 2011 on March 1, we noticed an error within in the software. The issue is a significant one and if not fixed, will have long term impact on Summer Reader.

To ensure that Summer Reader meets the needs of your staff and patrons effectively, we are postponing the official release of Summer Reader until Friday, March 11. Our development, support and testing teams are working diligently to resolve the issue in a timely manner.

If you are a customer that scheduled an upgrade for your site between March 1 and March 10, your sites will be upgraded on March 11, 12, or 13. If you do not wish to upgrade that weekend and would like to reschedule for a later date, please contact Support at support@evancedsolutions.com or by calling 888-519-5770.

All state-wide Summer Reader customers (MA, NY, NJ, PA, AZ) will be upgraded on March 11, 12, and 13.

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If you are an administrator in charge of site setup, we recommend you begin training now in preparation for the release. You can attend our live, free webinars by signing up on our events calendar.

You can also access the following training videos and materials:

Training Agendas:
Evanced Solutions 101 (Overview of products, resources, and more): http://bit.ly/evanced_solutions_101

Summer Reader 201 (Managing Summer Reader as a Staff Member): http://bit.ly/summer_reader_201

Summer Reader 301 (Administrator and Product Set Up Tasks): http://bit.ly/summer_reader_301

What’s New With Summer Reader (click links in outline for detailed information): http://bit.ly/summer_reader_whats_new

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If you are a trainer preparing for staff wide trainings and need to test the product in a sandbox environment, please feel free to sign up for our Spring Reading Program for Librarians and Library Staff to learn more about the patron side of the software. Visit our Summer Reader demo site to see and test the administrative/library staff side of the software.

Spring Reading for Libraries: http://staff.evanced.info/christine/sr/homepage.asp

Demo Product Pages (passwords are next to each product link): http://bit.ly/evanced_demo_page

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If you have further questions about the upgrade, please contact Support at support@evancedsolutions.com or by calling 888-519-5770.

Thank You,

Christine Ayar Illichmann, MLIS
Coordinator of Customer Experience
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Evanced Solutions, Inc.
7830 Rockville Road, Suite C
Indianapolis, IN 46214
Direct: 317-352-2188 ext. 111
Support: 888-519-5770
Fax: 888-519-5770
cillichmann@evancedsolutions.com
www.evancedsolutions.com

Summer Reader 2011: Training Materials

March 3rd, 2011 mike

Summer Reader 2011 has been released!  Below you will find the information you’ll need to get started with the 2011 version of Summer Reader.  If you would like to request your upgrade, please email Support at support@evancedsolutions.com.

Training Agendas:
Day to Day Staff Interaction -  201 :  http://wiki.evancedsolutions.com/index.php/Summer_Reader_Managing_SR_As_A_Staff_Member
Administrative/Setup Tasks – 301:  http://wiki.evancedsolutions.com/index.php/Summer_Reader_Administration_Of_Summer_Reader
Getting to Know Evanced Solutions: http://wiki.evancedsolutions.com/index.php/Getting_Started_Getting_To_Know_Evanced_Solutions

What’s new Summer Reader:
http://wiki.evancedsolutions.com/index.php/Whats_New_Summer_Reader_2011

Summer Reader Security Roles:
http://wiki.evancedsolutions.com/index.php/Summer_Reader_Default_Security_Roles#Admin

Summer Reader Defining Primary/Secondary Prize Setup:
http://wiki.evancedsolutions.com/index.php/Summer_Reader_Defining_Primary_Secondary_Prize_Setup#Linear

Summer Reader Page Editor Detailed (in progress):
http://wiki.evancedsolutions.com/index.php/Summer_Reader_Page_Editor

Auto Archiving: It’s A Good Idea…

February 28th, 2011 mike

Like most of our products, Room Reserve is predominately used by public libraries.  However, the colleges and universities that use Room Reserve constantly blow us away with the sheer volume of room reservations they handle on a daily basis.  It’s as if all those college kids need to study or something – hundreds and hundreds of study room requests!  Whoa!

When you’re handling all those requests, it’s hard to take the time to archive reservations, but we highly recommend that you take the time to do so.  It’s as easy as enabling the auto-archive feature in your system settings.  Grab a cup of coffee at some quiet morning hour, hunker down in your office, and do a massive bulk archive of all those old reservations.  Then set the auto archive feature and suddenly, life will be quite a bit easier!

Why?  You ask…

1) Your search results if you’re seeking a specific reservation will be much more brief
AND
2) Your system will become MUCH faster if you’ve had a ton of reservations just hanging out.  Much faster.  Faster than the cars leaving campus during Spring Break.   (Impressive, no?)

Question about how to do this? Email support@evancedsolutions.com, and we’ll walk you through the details.