Liberty & illumin Releases
As always, we continued to deliver innovative features and valuable enhancements to benefit our Liberty v5 and illumin users. Within Liberty some of our favorites include our homepage subpages (see more below!), integration with CloudLibrary and the ability to catalog via Liberty Link.
Not to forget illumin! This year, team favorites included adding linked fields, custom notifications, and taxonomy (being able to categorize and organize information, data and more based on characteristics).
Liberty Sub Pages
Our Liberty v5 Build 8.053 release had an exciting new feature allowing you to build a menu of homepage sections, called subpages, to group content, giving your Liberty homepage a cleaner, more organized display. Subpages allow you to build groups of hierarchical pages which are organized by topic, department, theme, or whatever else you can imagine.
User Group Meetings & Bootcamps
This year Softlink IC held two User Group Meetings (UGMs): one in Brisbane, Queensland and one in London, England. We were thrilled to host our first post-COVID, in-person meetings!
The UGMs are designed to provide our customers with a chance to come together to discuss best practices when using our software. It’s great to see our customers networking and learning from each other’s experiences to increase their knowledge of the software. Attendees also had the opportunity to meet members of the team at Softlink IC who provided insight into upcoming features developments and product updates.
Our bootcamps were created to provide a series of short, sharp, tightly focused training sessions to make it easier for many of our time poor Liberty and illumin users to attend.
It has become increasingly difficult for many information professionals to find 3-4 hours let alone a whole day to attend other scheduled training events. Our bootcamps for 2022 covered a variety of topics including, for both Liberty & illumin:
- Using page layouts & translations to customize your catalogue (Liberty)
- Current Awareness (Liberty)
- Advanced Cataloging (Liberty)
- Overcoming Overdues (Liberty)
- Request Management Forms & Fields (illumin)
Conferences & Webinars
Every year we host webinars and attend conferences where possible. Attending conferences or running webinars are an invaluable experience for librarians and researchers alike.
Not only do these events provide information about the newest trends in library technology but they also offer chances to network with colleagues, gain hands-on experience with new tools, receive direct feedback from customers, and build meaningful relationships within the field.
We attended two in-person conferences this year. Our North American team was onsite and ready to greet eager conference attendees at the 2022 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference from 16 – 19 July. After two years of Virtual Conferences, it was so good to conference in-person at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
Our APAC team attended Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA) conference in Hobart, Tasmania between 24 – 26 August 2022. A biennial event hosted by ALLA, the conference is the major professional and business development event in the Association’s calendar.
The webinars we hosted this year included a new format for our feature release for Liberty and two practical webinars showcasing how illumin can improve your research management with reporting and how you can bring a customer focus to your research team with illumin.
Make sure to keep an eye on our events page – we look forward to seeing you at a webinar or conference soon!