Events

The NW-IUG conference is being held virtually this year to accommodate team members that can’t typically travel.

Innovative will present a company update and share Polaris, Sierra, and Mobility product roadmaps.

With ransomware attacks becoming more common, local governments and higher education entities are at risk. Join Innovative and Security Practice Leader Matt Wilgus from Schellman to discuss malware 101, unique risks to libraries, and preventative controls.

Nathan James, Director of Technology and Collection Innovation at Central Arkansas Library System will share what they learned from the ransomware attack on their library system, and tips on what to do if it happens to you.

10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Eastern

The NorthNet Library System and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. invite you to an informative webinar to discuss how your library can benefit from available statewide grant funding from the “Link+ Regional Resource Sharing Project” to join the Link+ resource sharing network. These funds are limited and we encourage interested libraries to act quickly if they wish to take advantage of this opportunity. Libraries using any ILS are welcome - using an Innovative ILS is not required to join Link+.

This webinar is for libraries in the state of California.

2:00 - 3:00 pm Pacific

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Stephanie Kaceli, Library Director at Cairn University, will share Cairn’s involvement and testing with Innovative’s new library platform, Inspire Discovery. Then Martha Rice Sanders, Senior Consultant at Innovative, will dig into the choice to use BIBFRAME instead of MARC data to drive Inspire and what that means for libraries in the future.

2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern

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The Innovative team will walk through key actions for closing physical locations or suspending operations during this 45-minute webinar. There will be time for questions and answers with the presenters.

The Innovative team will walk through key actions for closing physical locations or suspending operations during this 45-minut webinar. There will be time for questions and answers with the presenters.

The Innovative team will walk through key actions for closing physical locations or suspending operations during this 45-minute webinar. There will be time for questions and answers with the presenters.

Join the Innovative product leadership team on this one-hour webinar to review the Innovative product roadmaps. This webinar will share roadmaps for Sierra, INN-Reach, and relevant mobile apps, and discuss additional support for other products.

Join the Innovative product leadership team on this one-hour webinar to review the Innovative product roadmaps. This webinar will share roadmaps for Sierra, INN-Reach, and mobile apps, and discuss additional support for other products.

Join the Innovative product leadership team on this one-hour webinar to review the Innovative product roadmaps. This webinar will share roadmaps for Polaris, INN-Reach, and mobile apps, and discuss additional support for other products.

Polaris Database Cleanup: Reviewing System Codes and Tables. This webinar is part of our Quick Hits webinar series.

The 2019 Western Canada Innovative Users Group Conference will be held October 24 - 25 at the Fraser Valley Regional Library in Abbotsford, BC.

Sierra Database Cleanup: Checking your system with easy-to-use tools. Michael McClellan, Senior Library Training Consultant at Innovative, will share two diverse but easy-to-use tools that can be used as part of a plan to review your Sierra system when you are closed to the public. The webinar will also cover Sierra system messages, which alert you to immediate configuration issues and some problems with records, and a walk through of how to use Sierra Statistical Reports. This webinar is part of our Quick Hits webinar series.

Sierra Database Analysis: Checking your System using Create Lists. Michael McClellan, Senior Library Training Consultant at Innovative, will share standard Create Lists strategies to identify problem records for review. Ranging from basic to regular expressions that you can run without needing to know how these work. The webinar will also cover how to use Global Update to easily review the contents of a review file. This webinar is part of our Quick Hits webinar series.

New Features in Sierra 5.1. Thinking of upgrading to Sierra 5.1? Already upgraded and want to learn more? If yes, join us to hear all about the exciting new features in the latest Sierra release. Highlights include restoring deleted records, exporting the Loan Rules & Loan Rule Determiner tables in CSV, and patrons can freeze holds older than 255 days. This webinar is part of our Quick Hits webinar series.

New Features in Polaris 6.5. Come see an overview of all the great new features in Polaris 6.5, which we released at the end of March. Highlights include support for patron preferred names, the ability to cancel hold requests in a shipped status, and completion of adding Outreach Services workflows in Leap. This webinar is part of our Quick Hits webinar serie

A first look at Polaris SimplyReports: Get started with this reporting tool. New to Polaris SimplyReports or in need of a refresher? Join this session for an introduction and overview of this reporting tool. This webinar is part of our Quick Hits webinar series.

Sierra SQL for Record Data Review. Jason Boland, Senior Library Training Consultant at Innovative, will share SQL strategies to create reports and identify problem records for review. In addition, we will cover strategies for using SQL results to update records in Sierra. Basic to intermediate knowledge level of SQL recommended as we will not cover introductory topics. This webinar is part of our Quick Hits webinar series.

Innovative’s Library Services team members in Customer Support and Professional Services are on a path of continuous improvement. Our priorities are being driven by your feedback on areas such as tickets in engineering, and how we can provide you more free staff training resources. Join us to make sure you haven’t missed recent improvements and hear what we’re working on now.

Innovative’s Library Services team members in Customer Support and Professional Services are on a path of continuous improvement. Our priorities are being driven by your feedback on areas such as tickets in engineering, and how we can provide you more free staff training resources. Join us to make sure you haven’t missed recent improvements and hear what we’re working on now.

This webinar will help INN-Reach central staff plan for system and member re-openings. Innovative will advise on reactivating lending and borrowing for some or all members or locations.

As libraries begin planning for when they will re-open physical locations, Senior Library Training Consultant Jason Boland will share key actions for re-opening locations in your Sierra system.

As libraries begin planning for when they will re-open physical locations, Senior Library Training Consultant Jason Boland will share key actions for re-opening locations in your Sierra system.

As libraries begin planning for when they will re-open physical locations, Senior Library Training Consultant Jason Boland will share key actions for re-opening locations in your Polaris system.

If you're new to Polaris Leap or looking for additional training, join us to learn about Leap functionality beyond circulation workflows. We'll cover searching, record sets, bulk changing, and other exciting things that Leap has to offer.

Continue your Sierra database cleanup journey by learning more about Global Update. Nazee Depp, Senior Library Training Consultant at Innovative, will share Global Update strategies on how to edit records ranging from simple to complex changes, such as how to change fixed and variable fields, insert data and delete duplicates.

Can you relate to this challenge? “With over 1,000,000 new titles published every year, we don’t have enough money to buy everything our patrons want. And even if we did, we don’t have enough staff to process the additional items. And even if we did, we don’t have enough space to shelve the extra titles.” Join Tom Jacobson, Executive Library Advocate & Strategist, to learn more about INN-Reach by Innovative.

To say that times are strange is an understatement. Despite the enormity, focus, and often heartbreaking scale of our current uncertainties, in truth, we never really can know what the future will bring. But all libraries - public, academic, special, rural, urban and others - have a shared purpose that is too important to fail. Using humor and compassion -- and drawing on nearly 10 years as a library consultant -- Carson Block will share the qualities of libraries that thrive despite the obstacles.

Using Sierra Headings Reports Innovative Quick Hits Webinar May 20, 2020 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT Continue your Sierra database cleanup journey by learning how to use Headings Reports to review your system. Senior Library Training Consultant Mike McClellan will share more on making the most of Sierra Headings Reports. Register: https://go.iii.com/QHW-Sierra-Headings-Reports.html

This session will introduce Skyriver, Innovative’s cataloging utility. Skyriver can be used to obtain bibliographic and authority records for any integrated library system. Join Maria Laude, Innovative sales engineer, to learn the basics of editing and downloading records in this easy-to-use application that can be personalized for each cataloger.

Increase your searching powers using SQL in the Polaris Find Tool. This session presents more search options and more nuances resulting in you having more power! Join Jason Boland, Senior Library Training Consultant, for this training webinar.

This session will review the acquisitions API to streamline Edifact ordering in Sierra. Senior Library Training Consultant Mike McClellan will cover the basic Sierra set up to implement the API and what the vendor may require.

Polaris PowerPAC Settings for INN-Reach Libraries Innovative Quick Hits Webinar May 28, 2020 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT Learn ideas for customizing PowerPAC to get the most out of your membership in an INN-Reach resource sharing consortium. Your patrons will be more aware of your resource sharing options and even have their PowerPAC search terms automatically applied on the INN-Reach central server. Join presenter Dennis Todd, Innovative Senior Sales Engineer, to learn these customization tips. Register: https://go.iii.com/QHW-Polaris-PAC-Settings-INN-Reach.html

This session will review the three methods of Sierra Fiscal Close. Senior Library Training Consultant Mike McClellan will cover the basic Sierra set up and walk through each method.

Learn about outreach in the Polaris client and Polaris Leap web application. Discuss with other libraries in this interactive webinar how different outreach ideas can help with partial reopenings.

As libraries fully or partially reopen, many standard workflows have been altered to accommodate new policies. This webinar will look at capturing statistics to help quantify the effects of those policies. Senior Library Training Consultant Jason Boland will offer a brief overview of data integrity and tables that factor significantly with statistics. He’ll also present Web Management Reports and SQL as tools for data analysis.

Michelle Toombs, CEO of Marigold Library System and member of The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC), will explain how Polaris enables 180 member libraries to seamlessly share resources in Alberta, Canada. TRAC has been a Polaris customer since 2008, collaboratively serving patrons with 3.2 M resources across 73% of the province. Join us to hear Michelle’s unique and valuable perspective on how Polaris supports their staff and their communities.

Michelle Toombs, CEO of Marigold Library System and member of The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC), will explain how Polaris enables 180 member libraries to seamlessly share resources in Alberta, Canada. TRAC has been a Polaris customer since 2008, collaboratively serving patrons with 3.2 M resources across 73% of the province. Join us to hear Michelle’s unique and valuable perspective on how Polaris supports their staff and their communities.

Learn how Borrow by Mail works in Polaris. Then discuss with other attendees in this interactive webinar how Borrow by Mail and other ideas can help libraries.

Want to be more involved in the IUG enhancements process? Learn how you and your colleagues can contribute enhancement ideas, support and discuss the ideas of others, and set priorities for future product development with the Idea Lab.

This Quick Hits webinar is for current Skyriver customers interested in tips and tricks to improve their use of Skyriver. We’ll cover shortcuts and workflows in Skyriver for both Sierra and Polaris libraries. Presenters will discuss how macros, batch searching, highlighted fields, and other advanced features can save time for library staff, and different ways to use authorities in Skyriver. Sarah Johnson, Cataloging & Metadata Librarian/Assistant Professor at Emporia State University, and Shannon Schmidt, Head of Support Services at Orion Township Public Library will share their expertise with Skyriver and invite audience contributions to share tips and tricks used at your library.

In this session, Senior Library Training Consultant Mike McClellan will review the basics of Sierra serial checkin for print publications and options for claiming, focusing on enabling electronic claiming.

Join Innovative on this Quick Hits webinar to review placing, managing, and fulfilling holds in the Polaris Leap Web Application.

In this session, Senior Library Training Consultant Mike McClellan will review the typical Sierra reports and procedures at fiscal year-end.

Join this webinar to learn about the Polaris Inventory Manager, a separately licensed Polaris software that lets you identify items that are mis-shelved, have a status other than "In," or satisfy a hold request, all while taking inventory.

Syndetics Unbound is a dynamic catalog enrichment service that includes more than 15 configurable elements like Similar Titles, Tags, User Reviews, Author bios and photos to provide patrons with in-depth details on all your collection’s titles. Syndetics Unbound currently integrates with Sierra Encore, Sierra WebPAC, and Polaris.

This webinar is ideal for public libraries interested in learning about the Vega Early Access program. If you’re a current Innovative customer, please join us to learn more about the new Vega platform for public libraries. In this webinar, we will demo the Discover offering, discuss our Early Access program, share future Development Partner opportunities, and more.

Statistical reports using well-designed Sierra SCAT tables can be incredibly useful for all aspects of Collection Development. This Innovative webinar session will cover best practices for developing SCAT tables and strategies for success.

Join us for an overview of the new features in Polaris 6.6, which includes circulation and serials functionality in Polaris Leap. Polaris 6.6 was released on August 17, 2020.

Innovative Library Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new Training and Learning Center. In this webinar, we'll introduce the Training and Learning Center and the newly designed Customer Support home page, and share helpful hints for navigating the Polaris and Sierra resources saved in one central location.

Innovative Library Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new Training and Learning Center. In this webinar, we'll introduce the Training and Learning Center and the newly designed Customer Support home page, and share helpful hints for navigating the Polaris and Sierra resources saved in one central location.

This Innovative webinar will share an overview of the Polaris Import Profile Manager and examples of import profiles used to bring bibliographic records into Polaris.

Join this webinar for a brief introduction to Serials Holding Records in Polaris. We'll focus on checking in Serials both in the Polaris client and in the Polaris Leap web application.

With Sierra comes access to the Advanced System Administration and Access (ASAA) options and features. This session will review these options along with several other configurations that used to be restricted to ASAA.

Learn how evolving demands on libraries have informed Vega Discover, Innovative's new platform for public libraries. Presented by Yariv Kursh, Innovative General Manager and Jordan Fields, Senior Product Owner, this webinar includes a summary of findings on how patrons are using the library dusring the COVID pandemic. 

Review Create List improvements and  improved security in Sierra 5.2  during this informative webinar.  We'll highlight several new features and a give you a closer look at many other notable changes incorporated into the latest release.

Now available in Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, learn how a combination of rich functionality, ease of use for both staff and patrons, and holistic customer support.makes the Polaris ILS a leading solution for public libraries. This webinar will discuss how Polaris can help today’s libraries compete, remain relevant and attract online users.

Trainer Michael McClellan reviews a complete list of typical end-of-year tasks to perform in Sierra.

Join Michelle Ralston for an overview of the close process and other helpful considerations to ensure a smooth and accurate close for fiscal year-end in Polaris. 

Learn how to make smart use of your collection with intelligent floating and the Lyngsoe Systems IMMS.

Colquitlam Public Library changed their online catalog to empower their staff and community with the ability to create, curate and share Book Lists with library users from all over the world. ChiliPAC integrates with your catalog and your catalog connects to the world as a truly organic readers’ advisory.

Public libraries are invited to join Innovative for a webinar on the future of the cutting-edge Vega platform. This webinar will include a presentation of our vision for Vega in 2021 and beyond, with focus on patron engagement and how Vega’s flexible framework optimizes the patron experience while improving key administrative workflows. We will follow this with a demo of the latest in Vega.