How can it be easier for Sierra or Polaris to make batch changes? What would an ideal workflow look like? 

For Sierra, how could batch updating records go more quickly or easily? Think about batch update workflows, using review files, and improvements to Global Update and Rapid update. 

For Polaris, what would make working with record batches go more quickly and easily? Think about workflows for modifying multiple records at a time through record sets, bulk change and ad hoc bulk change.  

Submit your ideas for how Innovative can help you efficiently make bulk changes in Sierra or Polaris. This challenge starts on May 23. 

Do you have something in mind that would make it easier to make a bulk change? Access the All Together Now Challenge in Idea Lab and submit your suggestions there. Idea submissions are open until June 6. 

Getting input can make good ideas great. Voting and commenting will continue through June 13. 

Pairwise voting begins July 5. When you enter the challenge and click on the Pairwise tab, you’ll be prompted to choose your favorite idea from a series of several pairs of ideas until you’ve seen every possible combination. Vote on as few or as many pairs of ideas as you’d like, and invite your colleagues to vote, too! 

We look forward to seeing your ideas and appreciate your effort! 

What is Idea Lab?
Idea Lab is the website hub for our customer-driven innovation process that informs Innovative product roadmaps. To participate, simply go to Idea Lab, and enter your username and password. If you don’t have an account yet, it’s not too late – simply follow the instructions on the Idea Lab FAQ and join in! 

Happy Innovating! 

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The Innovative Product Team invites Sierra users to participate in our November Idea Lab challenge:  Death to Popups – Sierra, beginning October 30.

Have a new idea you’d like to share? Go ahead and submit it in the relevant topic area. See an idea you love? Vote for it. Your submissions and votes play an important part in shaping our focus.

Initial submissions and voting are open until November 12. 

Pairwise voting will begin November 19: When you enter the Challenge and click on the Pairwise tab, you will be prompted to choose your favorite idea from each of several pairs until you have seen every possible combination. Vote on as few or as many pairs as you like, and spread the word to your colleagues so they can vote, too!

We look forward to and very much appreciate your input!

Upcoming Sierra Challenges:

Next year’s challenge schedule will be outlined and shared with you soon.

What is Idea Lab?
Idea Lab is the website hub for our customer-driven innovation process that informs Innovative product roadmaps. To participate, simply go to Idea Lab, and enter in your username and password. If you don’t have an account yet, it’s not too late – simply follow the instructions on the Idea Lab FAQ and join in!

Happy Innovating!

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The Innovative Product Team invites Sierra users to participate in our November Idea Lab challenge:  Death to Popups – Sierra, beginning October 30.

Have a new idea you’d like to share? Go ahead and submit it in the relevant topic area. See an idea you love? Vote for it. Your submissions and votes play an important part in shaping our focus.

Initial submissions and voting are open until November 12. 

Pairwise voting will begin November 19: When you enter the Challenge and click on the Pairwise tab, you will be prompted to choose your favorite idea from each of several pairs until you have seen every possible combination. Vote on as few or as many pairs as you like, and spread the word to your colleagues so they can vote, too!

We look forward to and very much appreciate your input!

Upcoming Sierra Challenges:

Next year’s challenge schedule will be outlined and shared with you soon.

What is Idea Lab?
Idea Lab is the website hub for our customer-driven innovation process that informs Innovative product roadmaps. To participate, simply go to Idea Lab, and enter in your username and password. If you don’t have an account yet, it’s not too late – simply follow the instructions on the Idea Lab FAQ and join in!

Happy Innovating!

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By watching webinars, reading articles, and taking workshops, I came to understand and appreciate how linked data allows our user communities to find more and better resources successfully. This happens through better organizing of the different pieces of bibliographic metadata (authors, titles, subjects, etc.) as well as linking it to outside authoritative sources available for linking such as the Library of Congress authority records, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, and many others.

I began this journey with the misconception that using linked data would make doing authority work, which I love, obsolete. Happily, I have come to understand, from my researches, this is untrue, that identity management extends and enhances traditional authority control rather than replaces it.

Currently, I focus on what libraries can do in the MARC environment to smooth their path to transforming it into linked data. How do subfields with relationship codes help? What about URI’s in subfields 0 and 1? Related to that, I am now consulting with several libraries which are starting authority control with a vendor, helping them get the most out of their projects. I also wrote Solution ID 190326183159368 in Supportal that you may read here.

I’ve incorporated what I learned into the workshops and boot camps I teach – Authority Control in Sierra/Millennium in May/June, Metadata Essentials in July, and Cataloging Essentials (AKA help for the Accidental Cataloger) in August. Bootcamps are “system-agnostic.” We have an upcoming workshop on June 12 on Managing Polaris Cataloging as well as a free Hot Topic on Polaris Authority Control Basics on June 5. Sign up for the Hot Topic here. You may  You will find all the educational opportunities we provide listed here. I will also be doing abbreviated versions of Cataloging Essentials and Metadata Essentials as pre-conferences at IUG. If none of these work for your library, we at Innovative are always happy to schedule custom sessions of our workshops.

Questions? Comments? Drop me a line. I’d love to hear about your journey.

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We invest heavily in security and compliance, partnering with library security teams to mitigate security risks. As a result of those investments, we achieved ISO 27001:2013 certification in 2016. A key tenet of ISO 27001 is continuous improvement and having a framework to proactively address new requirements. As good timing would have it, this was the same year the European Union (EU) adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Innovative’s Information Security Management Team has the tools, processes, and certifications to immediately begin GDPR planning to understand the impact to libraries, patrons, and our company. Here’s an update as we work towards the May 25, 2018, GDPR deadline.

Getting Ready for GDPR

Innovative engaged TrustArc, a leader in data privacy management, on a GDPR readiness assessment. In partnership with the Innovative Security team, TrustArc interviewed stakeholders across the company to assess how our practices and products adhere to GDPR requirements. The assessment focused on the following:

• Transparency
• Collection & Purpose Limitation
• Consent
• Quality
• Privacy Program Management
• Security for Privacy
• Data Breach Readiness & Response
• Individual Rights

The good news: TrustArc’s results showed Innovative’s ongoing focus and investment in security has paid off, and Innovative is already compliant in a majority of the key GDPR requirements. The readiness assessment further identified that full GDPR compliance requires both the Library and Innovative to comply with specific aspects of GDPR.  In order to complete full compliance Innovative has allocated additional investment to implement the GDPR roadmap and will work with our Library partners.

Innovative GDPR Roadmap

The GDPR roadmap includes two areas that are most important to your library:

1. Your requirements as a data controller. Innovative will support your GDPR compliance requirements through product updates and your library should review your policies and practices given your own compliance obligations as a data controller. You act as a data controller – an entity which collects and determines the use of personal data. Our applications have always allowed for the prompt search, export, and purging of Patron data but your library is ultimately responsible for controlling patron data. Innovative will support you by providing solutions that enable our Library Partners to mitigate risks associated with growing global privacy laws.
2. Our requirements as a data processor. We act as a data processor – an entity which processes personal data on behalf of a data controller for our hosted clients within Innovative data centers.

Product Updates
Innovative has been working on implementing product and procedural changes to support your library’s responsibility as a data controller for months, and we are finalizing product roadmaps and scheduling the related development. We expect to implement enhancements to the ways our products enable you and your patrons to more easily access, store, and retrieve personal data. Some requirements may be met through procedural changes, others through development. Innovative is committed to supporting your GDPR compliance and will be prioritizing this work to mitigate any ascociated risks. Note that your institution’s relationship with the GDPR should be understood as you may have additional responsibilities as a data controller and data processor that aren’t addressed through Innovative’s technology and are the sole responsibility of the library as a data controller.

 Next Steps

Innovative will share more details as they are available on a regular basis. Look for specifics in product release notes as well as notifications and privacy updates on our website, blog, and in the Supportal.

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