Word of the Week - License

Licenses

Millennium is a lot like a fair. First, you pay an admission fee to get into the fair (your username), and then you buy tickets to ride the rides (your initials). Just like a ride at a fair, though, the rides on Millennium have a passenger limit, only a certain amount of people are allowed on the ride at one time. These limits are called licenses. Millennium is currently set up with 50 licenses, meaning that 50 Millennium applications can be open at any given time.

There are a lot of things to do in Millennium, so what uses a license and what doesn’t use one?

The following applications use a license:
- Circulation
- Serials
- Acquisitions
- Cataloging
- ILL
- Reports
- Administration
- Telnet
- Millennium Toolbar, when opened alone

The following programs do not use a license:
- Web Pac Pro (My Account and Advance Search)
- Encore
- CS Direct
- Express Checkout
- Millennium Toolbar, when opened inside a running application (like Circulation)

In order to help conserve license groups, Millennium has several features in place. One such feature is the time out- at the Circulation Desks, after 30 minutes of inactivity, the Millennium sessions time out, freeing up a license. On the Public Service Desks, the Millennium sessions time out after 15 minutes. There are also Contention groups in place. Contention groups limit the amount of licenses Usernames can have opened at one time. For example, TS has 13 licenses allotted to it, so if someone wants to open a 14th license in TS, they couldn’t. A Contention group does not, however, give priority to a Username; licenses are still used on a first come, first served basis. You can help conserve licenses, too, by logging out of Millennium whenever it is not in use.

Thank you to Heather Beverley for explaining this so well!