It is hard to believe that we've been using Millennium for a year already, but today we celebrated the first birthday of our Millennium system with cake and prize drawings at Cook Park and Evergreen. There were a lot of happy winners all over the library.
Everyone wins because we recently joined LINKin, which allows patrons to directly request material from 5 Innovative libraries in our area. We also upgraded to Encore 2.0, which has a lot of great features, including Community tags, fewer logins, and reviews, summaries, and tables of contents.
There was also a special appearance by Ms. Millennium, Deb Lindahl. She really lit up the room with her special presence and left with a lovely corsage--the sugar flowers from the cake.
Read below for a list of people's favorite Millennium features, least favorite things, and Millennium wishes. We also asked people for their favorite shortcuts.
What is your favorite Millennium feature?
- fines paid, change due date, # in hold list, ++++
- Ease of checking patrons out.
- It is very easy to use and it was easy to learn.
- easy patron name lookup in circ
- ease of cancelling holds
- It is easy for new people to learn!
- looking up patron name & item title/not barcode
- placing holds
- looking up patron library card numbers
- Millennium Collection Module & Fines Paid
- You can see what number you are in the hold list.
- I can see what # I am in a hold list.
- Ease in which one can place & modify holds.
- CREATE LISTS, a very powerful tool
- The custom hold slip!
- The ability to create lists and do global changes.
What is your least favorite Millennium feature?
- only being able to check current and last patron
- Bibliographic information is inadequate.
- The "Account in use" messages blocking accounts
- title searching & scrolling down to barcode
- length of time to load
- The statistics. They are too rigid.
- waiting time for login
- back-up procedure
- trying to find a title for a hold
- Can't checkin patron's items on more than 1 computer
- You can not tell when an item is at bill stage
- Two computers can't have same info up at same time
- That items are not listed in chronological order.
- Printouts leave a lot to be desired.
- The locking of patron records.
- System allows barcodes to be used more than once.
What do you wish Millennium would include?
- Lock on Bib Inq drop down menu, so it won't change
- Better checkout history of an item.
- Not having to use the beginning of barcodes
- deeper access to last patron & last status on item
- glossary (and there is probably one there)
- A report writer for statistics.
- Starbuck's French Vanilla Capuchino
- simpler acquisitions
- Only put in the last #s of patron & item barcode
- When you are checking in mode,it includes a number
- Fries and a diet coke.
- Ability to limit CDs to an artist as main entry
- Better ways to find the "right" topic in the IGR.
- Just type the last 7 digits of patron barcode
- Nothing that I can think of now.
What is your favorite Millennium Shortcut?
- F11 & F12, Alt Q
- predefined card templates
- F1 and F2
- alt-q
- F11 and F12
- The space bar to activate the selected option.
- is there one? too many mouse clicks now.
- none
- F1 checkout F2 check in
- Katie's F1, F2, F3 function
- Checking in in Circ Desk mode!!!!!
- spacebar to override alerts
- I have 2:Ctrl-] next bib rec; Ctrl-. next item rec
- Recent patrons
- None that I can think of now.
