Pop in to see just how simple it can be to create and manage dynamic communications and events! In this one hour session we will explore the options available within CEP Events & Marketing to discover just how easy and adaptable it really is.

As library leaders explore new ways to serve their communities during later-stage COVID, many places are in real crisis while society is in turmoil. Old modes of library advocacy and storytelling need to be questioned, reconsidered, or even abandoned. Our messages about the value and importance of our work need to be reworked in order to be relevant to new audiences. Even our assumptions about how libraries and library work are perceived need to be considered again. Join EveryLibrary’s executive director John Chrastka for a discussion about how new political realities are impacting libraries and learn what can be done to continue to anticipate success.

In this session, you are encouraged to reflect on open access afresh, whether you are convinced or skeptical or somewhere in between. It’s growing, by what is it and how and where and why is it growing? What is the impact of open access on the availability and quality of information, and is that a good or bad thing?

Libraries have long been trusted sources for reliable health information. In recent years, partnerships with public health nurses and social workers have brought preventative healthcare and behavioral health referrals into the library, along with connections to fresh food and exercise programming. Learn how recent innovations are going even further, addressing mental health—even loaning lamps to fight Seasonal Affective Disorder—piloting telehealth to allow patrons without reliable home internet to consult medical professionals in privacy, and even providing COVID tests and connecting patrons to vaccines. What are the next steps for libraries to leverage their role as trusted, stigma-free, and private sites to improve patron’s access to healthcare, and how can partnerships ensure that this doesn’t become yet another “other duty as assigned” for overburdened library workers?

Anaheim Public Library is receiving the 2021 Power of Libraries award due to their inspiring work with the “We’re Here for You” library card. With the We’re Here for You library card, youth ages 18 and below in the foster care system, a group home, temporary living situation, homeless, emancipated minors, or those with no proof of address will have special access to library resources. The We’re Here for You card allows youth to check out up to 5 items (5 books or up to 3 books and 2 DVDs), eliminates overdue fees and provides assistance with lost items, automatically renews books and materials twice, and offers full access to digital resources

SirsiDynix is the only vendor offering libraries a full suite of tools to take advantage of the wealth of Open Access content available today. Learn how you can expand your collections and save on expensive content subscriptions with CloudSource OA. In this session, we will share how academic, public and special libraries participating in the CloudSource pilot program are benefitting from this unique, new service.

Our Community Engagement Platform is a marketing automation tool that drives patron interaction and allows libraries to develop meaningful messaging from one consolidated platform. This session will also cover BLUEcloud Analytics, our market-leading reporting tool.

We will take a look at the new user permissions and how that impacts your setup and configuration of BC Circ. As a bonus, we will also look at how custom field labels in Symphony can be displayed in BC Circ.

Learn about how using reports as filters for other reports can help you get more in depth answers to your data questions.

Come see what’s new for you in brief demonstrations of the tools and resources that customers find most useful for self-service and live support.