22nd Annual
VTLS European Users' Group Meeting
3-5 September 2008
Bratislava, Slovakia 

 

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VTLS EUG Seminars

VTLS Training Seminars

Seminar I - Customizing Your Portal

Audience: Librarians, Administrators

Instructor: Tony Stratton

08:30

VECTORS iPortal I

New Features and Highlights in Vectors iPortal

Planned Enhancements

Software Architecture

Documentation and Support

Files and Directories

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

VECTORS iPortal II

DIPOs, Web Value Added

Extended Web Services

User Interfaces (Skins)

Interface Management

Translation Management

12:00

Lunch

13:30

VECTORS iPortal III

Open URL Link Creator

External Databases Management

Metadata - Linking to Outside Resources

Alternative Authentication Methods

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

VECTORS iPortal IV

Dialog files - New Skin Functionality

Expert Search - Leveraging Keyword Indexing for Patrons

Linking Outside Resources to your OPAC

Web Design Principles and OPAC Design

 

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Seminar II - Advances In Virtua

Audience: Librarians

Instructors: Murielle Voide & Sílvia Guivernau

08:30

 Recent features

          

0. Introduction

1. Global/Profiler

2. iPortal

3. OPAC

4. Cataloguing

5. Circulation

6. Automated Stack Requests (ASR)

7. Acquisitions

8. Serials

9. Reports

 

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Continuation of the morning session.

12:00

Lunch

13:30

Upcoming Features

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

Interface integration of VTLS and 3rd party products

Design live exercise

 

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Seminar III - Virtua System Internals

Audience: Systems Analysts, IT Librarians

Instructor: Nabil Saadallah

08:30

Virtua System

New Features

Upgrade Procedure

8k bock change

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Virtua System

System management

Logging in Virtua

12:00

Lunch

13:30

Data Handling

Data loading and merging

Data exposure and conversion

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

Interoperability with Virtua

 

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Seminar IV - VITAL

Audience: Systems Analysts, IT Librarians

Instructor: Heather Myers

08:30

VITAL Access Portal I - Public

New features in 4.0

Consortium within VITAL

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

VITAL Access Portal II - Administrative

Users and groups

Authority Lists

Integration with QuickBib

12:00

Lunch

13:30

Customizing Access Portal

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

VITAL 5.0

1. Discussion of planned Enhancements for 5.0

 

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Seminar V – VTLS Solutions and New Technologies

Special VTLS Workshop for Slovak Librarians

13:30

Introduction: VTLS

Jack Bazuzi

14:00

Introduction: Slovak Library Network

Dr. Dusan Katušcák

14:30

Automated Stack Requests – A New Interlibrary Delivery System in Virtua

Archives Management System

Consortium Catalog Model - Characteristics and Benefits

Sílvia Guivernau & Gemma Ros

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

Open Discussion – Model of Library Cooperatives

Dr. Dusan Katušcák

Dr. Vinod Chachra

16:30

VITAL – Digital Repository Services

Dr. Vinod Chachra

17:00

VISUALIZER – A New Discovery Tool Based on Facet Searching Techniques

Dr. Vinod Chachra

17:30

VTLS New Directions

Dr. Vinod Chachra

 

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