Welcome to Sierra News!

The changing of the seasons brings more news on the Sierra front! With some exciting changes coming in Sierra, educational webinars, the latest on IUG and training opportunities.

What's coming for Sierra

Sierra 6.0 is set to be released later this year, and has library-requested functions including MARCXML data harvesting via OAI-PMH, recording the date an item status is changed, access to the patron record from the holds screen, and more; see Product Board for details on what is planned for Sierra now and next!

Sierra Training Workshops coming up this year

Could you or your team use a skills refresh or update? Check out our training schedule this year for courses on Circulation, Cataloging, Acquisitions and more: Innovative Sierra Workshops

Changes to Ideas In case you haven’t heard: The Idea Lab is making way for Idea Exchange! The Idea Lab team has been working hard to migrate the best ideas in Idea Lab to Idea Exchange. Learn more about this process in our recent post: FAQ: Idea Lab is now the Idea Exchange Note that you don’t have to be an IUG member to be part of Idea Exchange; just working at an Innovative library qualifies you to submit, comment on, and vote on ideas.

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