Word of the Week

Usernames and Initials

Have you ever visited a fair? First you have to pay an admission fee to get into the fair and then you have to buy tickets to ride the rides.

Well, Millennium is just like the county fair except the admission fee is called a username and the tickets are called initials!

In Millennium, the username identifies who you are to the system. Are you with Circulation? Reference? Technical Services? That’s what your username tells the system, and helps link you up to the appropriate applications.

Initials are what Millennium uses to determine what you have permission to do within a given application. They grant you access to view information appropriate to your profile (like viewing patron records within the Circulation application); make changes within a given application (like adding new patrons in the Circulation application); and limit access to certain features, such as re-ordering the hold queue or deleting records, that not everyone should be able to do.

Now, are you eager to ride the rides at the fair? Why don’t you test out this username and initials and have some fun!

Username: Training
Password: Training

Initials: Train
Password: Train

Guest WOW-er Heather Beverley brought you this week’s WOW. Thanks, Heather! Heather says: “Thanks to the great Katie Olsen for the awesome fair analogy!”