Thanks to all of you who joined us in Virginia Beach for the 2016 ILLiad Conference in mid-March. The responses we’re seeing on the post-conference survey demonstrate the value our ILLiad users continue to see in this conference.

In conjunction with the conference, the extended Atlas family of friends, family, and colleagues has again shown its generosity in supporting “Team Stryker” to raise money for the Sarah Cannon Fund. Together this year we have raised more than $1500 and donations are still coming in on the web. You can make your donation to support “Team Stryker” at sarahcannonfund.org.  Please reference “Team Stryker” on the “In Memory of/In Honor of” field on the website– this is the only way we will be able to track the donations! If you have any questions about donations, please contact Dan Specht at Atlas Systems.

If you attended the conference, your registration fee covers access to all the conference sessions in the Video Training Library. Presentations are now available at https://training.atlas-sys.com/ under Subjects. Sign in using the user ID and password you used to register for the conference. You will then be able to view the sessions—those you attended and would like to see again and those you didn’t have time to attend.

If you did not register for the conference, you will need a subscription to the Video Training Library to access the presentation videos. Subscriptions start as low as $30 a month, so if you’re not already a subscriber, now’s a great time to make this small investment and view the sessions presented at the 2016 ILLiad Conference, as well as archives from previous years’ conferences and videos on a full range of subjects prepared by Atlas staff.

Text Message Notifications in ILLiad 8.6
Presented by John Brunswick, Atlas Systems
ILLiad 8.6 offers notification text messaging. Have your patrons stopped using email? Are customers asking for instant notifications? View this session to learn more about SMS templates and how you can integrate with Twilio to send text messages in addition to or instead of email notifications for ILLiad activities.

Writing a Comprehensive ILL Operations Report: Methods, Data and Results
Presented by Amanda Mays, Berry College
This presentation provides tips on writing single and multiple year operational reports, including choices for content, sources of information including the use of OCLC Usage Statistics and ILLiad Web Reports, and analysis of data to show trends that reveal both successes and future needs of the ILL office.

As announced in December 2015, Atlas Systems is now an ArchivesSpace Registered Service Provider. For those in the archives and special collections world, this makes Atlas Systems your one stop for automating special collections and archives management, from cataloging to fulfillment.

Atlas will offer ArchivesSpace migration, hosting, and support services. Various hosting services packages are available, depending on where you are in the cycle of using ArchivesSpace or other collection management databases (i.e., Archon, Archivists’ Toolkit, or another local system).

For details on ArchivesSpace services, please contact us at ASpace@atlas-sys.com.

The University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library, Special Collections Library, and William L. Clements Library are pleased to announce an Aeon Symposium dedicated to Connecting Uses, Pushing Limits among current and prospective institutional users of Aeon. The event will be held June 15-17, 2016 in Ann Arbor.

The event is free, but registration is required. The registration deadline is June 6, 2016. The registration form is available at http://www.aeonum2016.org/registration/

The program schedule can be viewed at http://www.aeonum2016.org/schedule/.

For more details, please visit http://www.aeonum2016.org/