The Caledon Public Library developed an Automated Mailer system to advertise new materials to patrons with minimal effort. The system delivers weekly email lists of new items directly to patrons who can then place holds without assistance. It was developed using free and open source technologies like ASP.NET, SQL Server Express, and leverages existing library systems. Over 28,000 emails are now sent annually to 240 subscribers, resulting in a marked increase in holds placed since the system was introduced.
2. Overview The Automated Mailer is our solution for delivering the latest material to our patrons with minimal effort and cost while giving us the maximum coverage.
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4. Make it easy for users to access information. (methods and technologies?)
5. Allow them to place holds without jumping through hoops. (how to make it easy?)
6. Deliver lists to users with minimal effort every week.(how to make it easy on us!?)
15. SQL 2008 Express is free and has many of the features of full featured product.
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17. What we started with (part2) Sirsi reports in raw text format with some formatting. .end 2009 100: Henderson, Veronique. 245: Color me younger : with Colour Me Beautiful / Veronique Henderson, Pat Henshaw. -- 2009 100: Bertinelli, Valerie, 1960- 245: Finding it : and satisfying my hunger for life without opening the fridge / Valerie Bertinelli. -- 2009 100: Kingwell, Mark, 1963- 245: Glenn Gould / by Mark Kingwell ; with an introduction by John Ralston Saul. -- 2009 245: The great Christmas cookie swap cookbook : 60 large-batch recipes to bake and share / [Rosemary Ellis, editor-in-chief]. -- 2009 100: Albom, Mitch, 1958- 245: Have a little faith : a true story / Mitch Albom. -- 2009 100: Urquhart, Jane, 1949- 245: L.M. Montgomery / by Jane Urquhart ; with an introduction by John Ralston Saul. -- . . .
18. How does it work? Application is divided into standard tiers: Data (SQL server database), Data Access (.NET Web Service), Business logic (.NET Web Service) and UI presentation layers (Admin and Public). No access is available to protected layers and only Public Site is published on the ISA firewall. Code fairly well refactored and fully split into logic layers. Ex: Presentation layer code does not access data tier.
38. Links, info and other.. Caledon Public Library www.caledon.library.on.ca Twitter www.twitter.com/CaledonLibrary Mojgan Schmalenberg mschmale@caledon.library.on.ca Paul Sanchez psanchez@caledon.library.on.ca Free Tools Visual Studio and SQL Server Express http://www.microsoft.com/express/ Thank you!