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Contents 1 Tips and Tricks 2 Product Support & System Tips 3 Usability Studies 4 Customer List 5 Library Marketing and Instruction Support 6 Widgets and API Gallery 7 SummonCamp 8 Serials Solutions User Groups

Tips and Tricks

• Tips and Tricks for Searching Summon

Product Support & System Tips

• ExLibis: Aleph, Voyager & SFX
• Free/Open Source: Evergreen, Koha, VuFind
• Innovative Interfaces: Millennium
• OCLC: EZproxy
• Serials Solutions: 360 Core, 360 Link & 360 Resource Manager
• SirsiDynix: Symphony & Horizon
• Talis: Talis
• Springshare: LibGuides
• Open Access Resources (new)

To provide your own availability service for the Live Availability feature within Summon - Read Michael Klein's article in the Code4Lib Journal: Hacking Summon.

• PHP script for Summon-VoyagerILS Availability

• Perl Script for sending files to Summon FTP

Usability Studies

• Scripts
• Reports and Presentations

Customer List

• see Summon Customer List
• Customer Stats
• Summon User Groups
• Institutional Repositories in Summon

Library Marketing and Instruction Support

• Marketing Materials
• Summon Logo Graphics and Designs
• Bowling Green State University's Summon Guide
• Videos
  • The biep is on! - Fontys Library (Netherlands)
  • One Search To Find Them All - North Carolina State University
  • Summon Tutorial - University of Adelaide
  • Summon Tutorial - University of South Australia
  • Summon Tutorial - University of Queensland
  • Mobile Library Search - University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Refining Results in Summon - Grand Valley State University
  • Library Minute - Arizona State University
  • Summon and Zotero - University of Manitoba
  • Summon screencasts - Virginia Tech
  • Looking for Articles? Try ArticlesPlus - University of Michigan

Widgets and API Gallery

• API Documentation Center & API Mailing List
• Live Examples
• App Downloads
• Web Tools
  • Create Scoped Summon Search Tool - a simple Web-based tool written in HTML and Javascript that generates the form code needed to create pre-limited searches in Summon. Released under the GPL, the Source code is available at Github.

SummonCamp

SummonCamps are regional user group meetings that are scheduled during major conferences throughout the year. Here is a list of SummonCamps:

• SummonCamp Europe 2012, UKSG Conference, Glasgow, Scotland (28/Mar/2012) REGISTER NOW
• SummonCamp Australia/New Zealand 2012, VALA, Melbourne (February 7, 2012) REGISTER NOW
• SummonCamp North America 2012, ALA Midwinter, Dallas, TX (January 22, 2012) REGISTER NOW
• SummonCamp North America 2011, ALA Annual, New Orleans, LA (June 26, 2011)
• SummonCamp Europe 2011, UKSG Conference, Harrogate, UK (06/Apr/2011)
• SummonCamp Australia/New Zealand 2011, ALIA Online, Sydney, Australia
• SummonCamp North America 2011, ALA MidWinter, San Diego, CA
• SummonCamp North America 2010, ALA Annual, Washington, DC

Serials Solutions User Groups

• Canada User Group
  • Date: Wednesday, October 19, 1pm – 5pm (in conjunction with the Access Conference)
  • Location: Hyatt Regency Vancouver
• Serials Solutions User Group UK
  • Date: Wednesday, May 9
  • Location: University of Surrey
• Nordic User Group
  • Date: Summon Information Literacy Network - 6 mars 2012, Borås
• MidAtlantic US User Group - TBD