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2008 Dynix Users Group/ European Unicorn Users Group Joint Conference

The 2008 conference was held at Southampton Solent University Conference Centre on 14-16 May.

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Booking

Please download the booking form (Word doc) and return to Southampton Solent University by 25th April at the latest, or by 11th April to benefit from a reduced rate for the full conference.

Accommodation

The Conference Hotel will be the 3* Jury's Inn in the centre of Southampton within a short distance of the Conference Centre. Further accommodation is available locally, including the Premier Travel Inn. We have made a block booking at the Jury's Inn with a substantial discount rate of £71 per night including breakfast (£80 per room double occupancy). This will be bookable via Southampton Solent University (see details above).

Location

Travel

Air

Southampton Airport (SOU) is approximately 4 miles from the Conference Centre.

For UK & Irish delegates, the following airlines fly to Southampton Airport:

  • flybe (Belfast City, Dublin, Edinburgh, Galway, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle)
  • Aer Arann (Cork)
  • Eastern Airways (Aberdeen, Inverness, Leeds/Bradford, Newcastle, Wick)
  • flyglobespan (Dublin)

The Uni-link U1C bus provides a regular link from the Airport to Southampton Central railway station (approx journey time of 45 minutes). The Railway Station is about 1/2 mile from Jury's Inn (Google Map)

According to Wikipedia, in 1936 the first test flights of the Supermarine Spitfire were conducted at the airport, an event commemorated in 2004 with the erection of a near-full size sculpture of K5054, the prototype Spitfire at the road entrance

Rail

Southampton Central station is approximately 1 mile from the Conference Centre. There are regular services to London Waterloo and other major stations in the South of England, Cardiff, and Manchester Piccadilly (via Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International).

Sessions

Draft programme

Wednesday 14th May

  • SirsiDynix keynote: Gary M. Rautenstrauch, Chief Executive Officer, SirsiDynix
  • Library consortia - how collaboration can benefit participants: SWIFT Consortia Consultant
  • Symphony update: Talin Bingham, Chief Technology Officer, SirsiDynix

Supplier session

  • Brand Communications

Thursday 15th May

  • Authentication and authorisation - LDAP, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth: Anne Freeman, SirsiDynix
  • PTFS ArchivalWare: Helen Westmancoat, York St John University
  • Horizon Migration Packages: Judith Tigner, SirsiDynix
  • Symphony indexing and Search/Retrieval: Slavko Manojlovich, Memorial University, Newfoundland
  • Unique Management: Steve Woods, LB Greenwich and Dick Neal, Unique Management
  • Dynix to Unicorn Migration: Pam Heard, LB Bexley
  • Social networking and RSS for Libraries: Dave Pattern, University of Huddersfield
  • Inforum - from community serving to individual service: Anne-Marie Vastesaeger, Inforum
  • EDI - exchange of experience: Chair: David Thomas, SDI
  • Keynote speech " Tomorrow's Libraries - Creating the future" Sue McKnight, Nottingham Trent University
  • API overview: Anne Freeman, SD
  • Searching for diacritics in Symphony- SmartPort 3.2: Slavko Manojlovich, Memorial University, Newfoundland
  • Interfacing Unicorn/SirsiDynix Symphony with corporate systems (Finance and CRM): Catherine Cooke and Anne Freeman, SirsiDynix
  • Symphony Collection Exchange: revitalize your library's materials: Andy Panayiotou,SirsiDynix
  • Implementation of EPS/Rooms at Bexley Public Libraries
  • ILL - review of enhancement requests: Chair: David Thomas, SDI
  • New item lists in Horizon - Amy Terlaga, Bibliomation
  • SMS messaging - Hull City and Kapow
  • Horizon Roadmap 2008: Axel Kaschte,Technical Product Manager, SDI
  • Cataloguing in Chinese: Catherine Cooke, City of Westminster Libraries
  • Collection Exchange: revitalize your library's materials: Andy Panayiotou,SirsiDynix

Supplier sessions

  • Lorensbergs
  • SB Electronics
  • Overview of Serials Solutions Products

Friday 16th May

  • SirsiDynix User Group (provisional name!) inaugural meeting & Symphony Development Forum update
  • User experience: products and roadmap: Talin Bingham, Chief Technology Officer, SirsiDynix
  • API overview: Anne Freeman, SirsiDynix
  • Relais International Supplier session
  • SirsiDynix Q and A and closing session

Free training sessions

SirsiDynix are offering 2 free workshops to delegates as follows:

  • Weds 14 May 11am-12.30 - Show borrowing history in the OPAC: a short introduction to iBistro and iLink customization for Unicorn and SirsiDynix Symphony (target audience: intermediate/advanced)
  • Fri 16 May 2pm-3pm - What's new in 3.2? Implementing new features of SirsiDynix Symphony's Acquisitions, Serials Control and Circulation (target audience: general)

If you wish to attend either or both of these please email Andy Panayiotou. Places are limited and are available on a first-come first-served basis.

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Conference Timetable

Links to the individual presentations are currently being added:

Suppliers' sessions and exhibition

The following companies have so far booked to exhibit at the conference:

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