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  • Tennessee would like to invite any Concourse or Atriuum users to join us at our Carnival of Ideas Fall Training Events during September and October. Information on dates and locations are on the Events Page as well as www.tnbaptist.org. (Just search for library to find a listing of classes at each lcoations.) We would love to have you join us!

  • Re: Atriuum reports in XML format

    Won't CSV fail if a title contains a comma?  Example: Ah-one, ah-two!

  • Atriuum has two ways to export a report. You can "export report as text" or you can "export report as CSV". CSV export behaves exactly as the "Export Report As Text" but delimits the results with commas instead of with tabs.
  • Check out the Tennessee Library Training Events on ning. We are offering both Concourse and Atriuum classes. Please join us in Chattanooga, September 6; Maryville, September 13; Nashville, September 27; and Memphis area, October 11. 

  • Concourse has a feature that prints reports in XML format. Is this feature available in Atriuum?

  • I hope many of you in Tennessee will be attending the workshops that are offered in Maryville (Sept. 14), Memphis (Sept. 21), and Murfreesboro (Sept. 28)this month. Bill Jones and I are presenting sessions on Concourse (Bill) and Atriuum (me). We had a great turn out in Cleveland this past Saturday. 

    Those that live in Alabama need to be sure to sign up for Shocco Springs Sept. 16 - 18, or for North Alabama Church Library Workshop on Nov. 3, at Eva Nell's church in Athens, AL. There will be Concourse and Atriuum sessions at both of these events.

  • When withdrawing items, we have created a "Removed" class in the Location field and place the items to be removed in that location. We also add the term "removed" to one of the call number fields (optional). We then generate and print a list of items to be removed, giving us a history of what has been removed.  We only delete items once or twice a year; that gives those items which may have been "lost" a little more opportunity to show up again, but the record will show the item removed if someone searches the catalog for it. 

  • WebOpac is great! You do need local tech people that are willing to work with you to set it up depending on how the church computers work with the library computers. We have utilized the Books Systems tech support several times to help us also. It is a great tool for giving folks access to your catalog on-line.

  • I am looking forward to being a member of this group.  We purchased Webopac years ago, but have never used it.  I hope we can get our church to set it up this year.

  • First Baptist Church in Kingsport, TN, has just purchased WebOPAC.  I am looking forward to having our collection available online.  Thanks Eva Nell for the encouragement!

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Concourse Pocket and Card Labels

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  

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Concourse Web OPAC

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 

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Printing Barcodes

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.    

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Problem using Concourse reports

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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