Unicorn Users Group International

Spencer Anspach
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
sanspach@indiana.edu
812-856-5318
updated 5/27/08

Reports For Beginners
Unicorn and Unicode
Advanced reporting without API

Symphony indexing tips/tricks
Perl programming basics
Basic authority control

Unicorn customer since 2001 (came up on 99.4)
Beta testing participant for GL3.1, Symphony 3.2
Currently on Symphony 3.2
Use somewhat-customized iLink
Coordinate library staff support and training

J. David Bavousett
Abilene Library Consortium
Abilene, TX, USA
davidb@alc.org
325-670-0483
updated 5/27/08

Taking the Pain out of Reports
PATRIOT-proofing your Unicorn System
System Administration Boot Camp
Fear and Loathing: the Perils of iBistro/iLink Customization
Cataloging for System Administrators
So What Do I Do Now? (API Tips and Tricks)
Serials for the Completely Stressed
The Nerd at the Head of the Herd
Libraries are *Supposed* to be Relaxing Places!

I can speak about nearly any Unicorn/Symphony system administration topic, reports or serials training, work/life stress management and productivity, digital archives

I have been a Unicorn system administrator since 2002. We're currently on GL 3.1 Solaris/ISAM, iBistro/iLink. In the fall of 2007, I took over the Consortium's management as its' coordinator, and am willing to speak about budgeting and other management issues, as well.

Merry Bortz
Del Mar College
Corpus Christi, TX, USA
mbortz@delmar.edu
361-698-1951
updated 5/27/08

Creating Training and Bibliographic Instruction Demonstrations with Adobe Captivate
eBook Bibloads and Authentication

Inventorying collections
reports
disaster preparedness planning
MARC record batch loads
env file modifications for beginners
authority control basics

Unicorn/Symphony (Windows) sys admin since 2002
Current version = Symphony 3.2
OPAC = iLink

Marshall Breeding
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
marshall.breeding@vanderbilt.edu
615-343-6094
updated 5/27/08

I regularly give presentations on trends in library automation, next-generation library interfaces, open source library automation, and library industry business environment. See: www.librarytechnology.org/resume.pl

Unicorn, iLink, Ex Libris Primo

Shelly Burns
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA, USA
burnss@nsula.edu or scburns2@yahoo.com
318-357-5065
updated 5/27/08

Labels by Design: Setting Up and Utilizing the Java Client's Label Designer

Acquisitions, Cataloging, Reports

Experience with Unicorn/Symphony 2 years
Current version: Symphony 3.2J
Current OPAC: iLink

Marty Coleman
First Regional Library
Hernando, MS, USA
marty@firstregional.org
662-429-4439 x131
updated 5/27/08

Constructing a Simple Weeding Report: Yes, it is that easy!

Reports, Administration

8 years experience with Unicorn, currently at version 3.2

Timothy McGeary
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA, USA
tim.mcgeary@lehigh.edu
610-758-4998
updated 5/27/08

Check Out the VUFind: an open source application of faceted searching
VUFind: an agnostic ILS interface
Electronic Resource Management: A Multi-period Capital Budgeting Approach

MyLibrary open source portal application
Data harvesting from Unicorn/Symphony

GL3.1 - testing / going to Symphony 3.2 Webcat, but testing and developing Unicorn/Symphony driver for VUFind (http://www.vufind.org/)
API

Margaret Law
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta CANADA
margaret.law@ualberta.ca
(780) 988-1810
updated 8/04/08

Using Tried and True Marketing Techniques to Promote Directors Station (with Don Hazlett)

Integrating Directors Station into Management Decision Making

Jean Montgomery
Upper Peninsula Region of Library Cooperation
Marquette, MI, USA
jmontgom@uproc.lib.mi.us
(906) 228-7697
updated 5/27/08

Spine Label creation using different printers

Using CybraryN and Cybrary Print with Unicorn
Properties, behaviors, customized policy lists within the Java Client
Requests within the Java Client
Creating special lists and having them display in iBistro

3 years experience Unicorn 3.1 Using iBistro

Walter Nelson
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA, USA
waltern@rand.org
310-393-0411 Ext. 7980
updated 5/27/08

The inner workings of the SIRSI Accountability Module
Creating a digital library with SIRSI Unicorn
Using blogs and RSS to enhance website content
Social networking for the Library

We have been using SIRSI Unicorn since 1991
I helped design the Accountability Module
I am also the Library webmaster with a strong grounding in blogs and RSS.

Darsi Rueda
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
dlrueda@stanford.edu
650-799-1533
updated 5/27/08

Stanford University's Unicode Migration Experience

length of experience: 10 years GL3.1.2.5, Oracle, Unicode, AIX 5.2 iBistro large site

Jane Wagner
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Washington, DC, USA
jane_wagner@ao.uscourts.gov
202-502-1201
updated 5/27/08

Unicorn Version Upgrades: Taming the Monster (2008)
Project Management 101 Plus Practical Examples from the Trenches (2007)
Roll-Your-Own Authority Control (2005)
Indexing 101 for Unicorn (2003)

System configuration and administration
Indexing
Some API topics
Perl scripting
Custom Webcat pages

I have been a Unicorn administrator since 1996, with experience in a medical library and two federal special libraries. My current site is at GL3.1. In summer 2008 we will be migrating to Sirsi's hosted site.

John Wohlers
Todd Library, Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove, IL, USA
jwohlers@waubonsee.edu
630.466.7900 x 2587
updated 5/27/08

RSS Feeds in the Catalog
Free Enrichment
Adding Google Gadgets to Your OPAC

Web2
WML

Experience: Unicorn - 4 years, Web2 - ~10 years
Unicorn Version: GL 3.1
Current OPAC: Web2