Webinar Schedule

All Surpass Support subscribers are invited to participate in Surpass Webinars at no additional cost. The webinars will feature live streaming video and sound, with a text chat feature to allow you to ask questions and participate. You’ll need a computer with a high-speed internet connection and headphones or speakers connected. Space for sessions is limited, so please email rsvp@SurpassSupport.com as soon as possible to let us know if you’d like to attend.

Customizing Safari 6

Learn to make the most of your catalog software by customizing Safari 6 to meet the needs of your library and its users. Many Surpass users may not realize that we designed Safari 6’s interface to be fully customizable. You’re fully in control! Learn to showcase the Safari 6 features that you and your users need and remove the ones you don’t need. Change the way the interface looks and add your institution’s logo. Highlight aspects of your collection and make important information easily accessible. You have the power to change Safari’s appearance and functionality, and we’ll show you how.

Upcoming Dates

There are no upcoming dates scheduled for this webinar. Please check again later for schedule updates and/or contact Surpass Support to let us know your preferred date and time.

Surpass Central for Absolute Beginners

This webinar is geared towards those who are new to Surpass Central and perhaps new to running a library in general. We’ll get down to the very basics of cataloging, printing labels, circulating, and other library administration and setup tasks to help you become comfortable using the software. Surpass Central is very powerful, flexible, and user-friendly, but if you aren’t sure how to get started, start with this webinar!

Upcoming Dates

There are no upcoming dates scheduled for this webinar. Please check again later for schedule updates and/or contact Surpass Support to let us know your preferred date and time.

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• March 30, 2011 4:00 PM ET

Creating Custom Reports

Surpass Central includes some very powerful and flexible tools for designing your own reports to create virtually any type of report you can imagine, for whatever purpose you might have in mind. The possibilities are endless, but might seem overwhelming at first. Our goal for this webinar will be to help participants become comfortable and proficient with the tools at hand and to be able to fulfill their own information reporting needs, whatever those might be. Rather than focusing on creating a specific type of report, we’ll be teaching you how to use Central’s features to create any report you might need.

Upcoming Dates

There are no upcoming dates scheduled for this webinar. Please check again later for schedule updates and/or contact Surpass Support to let us know your preferred date and time.

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• April 13, 2011 1:00 PM ET

Ending the School Year with Surpass

The end of the school year is a very busy time for school media specialists. We’ll make sure you’re prepared with all the knowledge you’ll need to accomplish common end-of-year tasks such as inventory, managing patron records, and other “spring cleaning” tasks for your Surpass database. We’ll also prepare you for the beginning of the next school year with information about adding/importing new students, setting up the calendar, and more. This webinar will be geared toward schools, but representatives of colleges and all other types of libraries are welcome and could certainly benefit from this information.

Upcoming Dates

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• May 9, 2011 3:00 PM ET

Bookbags and Patron Groups

Bookbags and Patron Groups are extremely useful but probably under-utilized features of Central and Safari. Having an understanding of how Bookbags and Patron Groups work can save you time and provide greater flexibility in cataloging, creating reading lists, circulation, reports, and a variety of other tasks. We here at Surpass often encounter users who don’t know what Bookbags or Patron Groups are or what they do. If that includes you, then you should definitely attend this webinar! Even if you are familiar with them, this webinar will still teach you some new tips and tricks.

Upcoming Dates

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Customizing Safari 6 Special Topic: The "Explore" feature

Safari 6 is all about customizability, and in this webinar, we’ll focus in-depth on one very versatile feature of Safari. Safari’s “Explore” feature provides patrons with an alternative means of navigating your library’s collection in a more visual way by clicking on graphical buttons that are tied to specific topics, reading lists, or other library resources. While Safari comes with a useful “starter set” of buttons, your patrons can get more mileage out of using the Explore feature if you customize it to reflect your library’s holdings and your patrons’ needs and interests. You can create your own Explore buttons with customized graphics, change the functions of the buttons so that they bring up the results that you want patrons to see, and even change the entire navigational structure to better suit your library’s needs. You’ll learn how to do all that and more in this webinar.

Upcoming Dates

There are no upcoming dates scheduled for this webinar. Please check again later for schedule updates and/or contact Surpass Support to let us know your preferred date and time.