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Just got a question from Donna Starnes: I am trying to use Concourse to add books to our library. When printing labels to go on the pocket and card of the book, is there a way to print the Item Number without all the leading zeroes? I would appreciate any help. Thanks! Donna
Read more…Our church currently uses Concourse PC based. We want to add Web OPAC so our patrons can search the catalog online. Also so we can start adding ebooks I have quotes for adding Web OPAC to Concourse and for changing to Atriuum. Our library budget is pretty low and moving to Atriuum seems outside our budget. Can someone share how they use Concourse Web OPAC and manage ebooks? Thanks
Read more…I am new to Concourse. I have downloaded the latest version of Concourse and eZcat to our new computer. I am considering purchasing a BC Master licence and barcodes to print our own. What are the pros and cons? We are scrapping the old database as it is hopelessly out of date and we will start barcoding the items that remain on the shelf after a heavy weeding process.
Read more…I'm having trouble using the reports feature of Concourse, version 8.5.013. Items added recently (after about August) do not appear in the generated report.We recently updated to the current version, just before our maintenance contract expired. We let it expire because of a deep cut in our budget, and the fact that we have never had trouble before. I tried reindexing the catalog, but no joy.Has anyone had this problem? I suspect the update might have some thing to do with my problem.
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Central Alabama Church Library Conference 2025
Growing a VIBRANT Library Ministry
March 15, 2025
8:00 am till 3:30 pm
Shoal Creek Baptist Church
13214 Holtville Rd (Actual Street address)
Deatsville, Al 36022
The MAIN PARKING LOT is LOCATED off Coosa River Road BEHIND THE CHURCH.
2961 Coosa River Road. Deatsville, Al 36022 (mailing address and parking lot)
(Fellowship Hall. Enter through main parking lot entrance)
Information
Check-In 8:00 AM
Conference Sessions 8:30AM-3:30 PM
DEADLINE for reservations Tuesday March 11, 2025
The only cost will be a $10.00 charge for lunch
You will pay for lunch when you register on-line
To register online go to:
https://churchhealthal.org/event/central-alabama-library-conference-2/
Registrations are required.
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND, PLEASE SEND YOUR CONTACT INFO TO ME! I am trying to UPDATE the Database for Libraries
Phone: Marty Woodall @334-296-1899
Email: martybooks1@gmail.com
If you are coming in from out of town or out of state
You can make Hotel reservations at a much-Reduced Rate by directly calling:
Hampton INN located in WETUMPKA, AL.
334-731-2222 press “0” at the prompts
350 South Main Street
Wetumpka, Al 36092
Tell them you will be attending the “Central Alabama Library conference” for a reduced Room Rate.
WETUMPKA is the little town where Ben and Erin did Hometown Makeover. Plan to come into Wetumpka early on Friday March 14 to Visit the Downtown area. There are lots of things to see and do including several Art Galleries. Don’t miss a visit to The Kelly Fitzpatrick Center for the Arts (I have art on display there), walk through Goldstar Park, and several great restaurants (Coaches Corner-seen on the Hometown show), coffee shops and of course SHOPPING at several Boutiques.
Central Alabama Library Conference is sponsored and supported by The Alabama State Board of Missions. (Alsbom.org)
This conference will include many aspects of library work including Administration, Promotion, Collection Development, Space/furnishing, and Computer.
Brief Overview
Session 1
• Serving as a Responsive Team facilitated by Morlee Maynard
• Atriuum Cataloging and Cataloging Reports facilitated Allison Maynard
Session 2
• Building a Dynamic Collection facilitated by Carolyn Walker
• Atriuum Patrons and Patron Reports facilitated by Allison Maynard
Session 3
• Cataloging for a Buzzing Circulation facilitated by Marty Woodall
• Atriuum Circulation and Circulation Reports facilitated by Allison Maynard
Session 4
• Promotion with Vigor facilitated by Bev League
• Book Systems Questions and Answers facilitated by Allison Maynard
Session 5
• Connecting the Vibrant Dots with all facilitators
Marty Woodall, Strategist
Shoal Creek Baptist Church
13214 Holtville Rd
Deatsville, Al 36092
334-296-1899
martybooks1@gmail.com
For the books that are not cataloged, again make sure you still want them. Atriuum’s cataloging process is much easier than in Concourse, if you did not have eZcat. If you would like to email me, I have a couple of handouts that might help you clean-up the database. amaynard@booksys.com
Help !! ASAP !!
Please explain populates in plain English. We have around 25,000 books, books on cd, and dvd's. What do we need to do to make the conversion easy?
We just converted to Atrium last January from Concourse (installed in 1996) and about 6 months before upgrading to Atrium we performed an inventory to identify and delete or replace lost items, weed items no longer needed (reducing the collection by about 10%). Also, we worked on cleaning up our patron data base. Concourse has some god reports to help you. There is a learning curve with any new software and Atrium is no different.
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