School librarians are facing job losses and budget cuts, but can advocate for their position by collaborating with teachers, being part of the educational process, and establishing themselves as the literacy and research experts. Vendors like Mackin provide resources to maximize librarians' time and capabilities by offering books, databases, cataloging services, and other tools to serve students and teachers. Mackin is a family-owned company that has specialized in customizing services to fit the needs of individual schools for 26 years.
The Warriors Quest – A Mission Hunt for Personal Meaning and Fulfillment
More and more people are searching for a “better way” of living. The problem with this approach is that you’re only looking at where you should live, or the type of job you should have.
The daily activities of a ninja produces pollutants in the home and the atmosphere. Learn how to prevent such circumstances and find other alternatives to go on with your daily activities.
Ben Forta - Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself-Sam...Edris Fedlu
This document provides an overview of basic database concepts to help readers understand SQL Server and T-SQL. It defines a database as a collection of organized data, like a filing cabinet. Data is stored in database tables, which are structured files that contain related data of a specific type, similar to files in a filing cabinet. The document also cautions that the term "database" is often misused, as the actual database is the container accessed by database management software (DBMS), not the software itself. Understanding basic database concepts is important for mastering SQL Server and T-SQL.
Microsoft PowerPoint - First Class- Virtual Towns and SchoolsAngela Carey
This document provides a training session on how to use the First Class - Virtual Towns and Schools (VTS) software. It covers how to log in, format text, get assistance from VTS, post news and announcements, attach files, create hyperlinks, add pages to the index, archive files, add events to the calendar, work with pictures, and make changes to home pages. The training includes step-by-step instructions on various functions within the VTS platform.
This document provides detailed instructions for scraping school websites to obtain student organization contact information. It describes three types of websites and methods for creating, reusing, and modifying scrapers for each type in the OutWit Hub Pro software. The document also reviews how to read an accompanying spreadsheet that tracks scraping progress and results. The goal is to regularly scrape new schools and re-scrape existing schools to maintain a steady influx of new student book drives.
This document discusses Amazon's focus on customer service and experience. It describes how Jeff Bezos founded Amazon with a vision of providing vast selection of books to customers without the limitations of physical retail stores. Over time, Amazon expanded its product offerings and developed technology and fulfillment capabilities to improve the customer experience. Key aspects that Amazon focuses on include deep product selection, fast shipping, personalized recommendations, customer reviews, and ease of purchasing. The document analyzes how Amazon's relentless prioritization of customers has contributed to its success as the leading online retailer.
The Warriors Quest – A Mission Hunt for Personal Meaning and Fulfillment
More and more people are searching for a “better way” of living. The problem with this approach is that you’re only looking at where you should live, or the type of job you should have.
The daily activities of a ninja produces pollutants in the home and the atmosphere. Learn how to prevent such circumstances and find other alternatives to go on with your daily activities.
Ben Forta - Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself-Sam...Edris Fedlu
This document provides an overview of basic database concepts to help readers understand SQL Server and T-SQL. It defines a database as a collection of organized data, like a filing cabinet. Data is stored in database tables, which are structured files that contain related data of a specific type, similar to files in a filing cabinet. The document also cautions that the term "database" is often misused, as the actual database is the container accessed by database management software (DBMS), not the software itself. Understanding basic database concepts is important for mastering SQL Server and T-SQL.
Microsoft PowerPoint - First Class- Virtual Towns and SchoolsAngela Carey
This document provides a training session on how to use the First Class - Virtual Towns and Schools (VTS) software. It covers how to log in, format text, get assistance from VTS, post news and announcements, attach files, create hyperlinks, add pages to the index, archive files, add events to the calendar, work with pictures, and make changes to home pages. The training includes step-by-step instructions on various functions within the VTS platform.
This document provides detailed instructions for scraping school websites to obtain student organization contact information. It describes three types of websites and methods for creating, reusing, and modifying scrapers for each type in the OutWit Hub Pro software. The document also reviews how to read an accompanying spreadsheet that tracks scraping progress and results. The goal is to regularly scrape new schools and re-scrape existing schools to maintain a steady influx of new student book drives.
This document discusses Amazon's focus on customer service and experience. It describes how Jeff Bezos founded Amazon with a vision of providing vast selection of books to customers without the limitations of physical retail stores. Over time, Amazon expanded its product offerings and developed technology and fulfillment capabilities to improve the customer experience. Key aspects that Amazon focuses on include deep product selection, fast shipping, personalized recommendations, customer reviews, and ease of purchasing. The document analyzes how Amazon's relentless prioritization of customers has contributed to its success as the leading online retailer.
1. The document provides training for teachers on developing websites on the Schoolwires platform for the UMASS school district to communicate with students and parents and streamline teacher responsibilities.
2. It reviews the goals and timeline for transitioning to the new website, demonstrates features of the Schoolwires system like creating pages and calendars, and addresses common issues teachers may face in developing their site.
3. The afternoon agenda involves teachers working independently and collaboratively to build out their website pages and learn additional Schoolwires tools like surveys, podcasting and blogging.
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This guide provides an overview of the key features and functionality of Outlook 2016 for Mac, including how to access tools and commands via ribbon tabs, search and navigate mail folders, set up accounts, organize mail with rules, and switch between mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes views. It also briefly outlines how to get help and provide feedback on Outlook.
Amazon started as an online bookstore called Cadabra Inc. and was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. The company name was changed to Amazon to reflect Bezos' vision of building something large in scale like the Amazon river. Amazon has grown tremendously over the years through strategic acquisitions and investments, innovative new offerings like the Kindle e-reader, and maintaining high operational efficiencies and customer convenience.
Textbook prices have risen more than twice the rate of inflation for the past 25 years, and now cost the average student $900 per year. Publishers continue to exacerbate the problem by pumping out new editions every few years and packaging books with costly extras like CDs and passcodes. Students, instructors, colleges and parents share frustration with the high cost of textbooks, but what can be done?
This webinar will present information about a forthcoming solution to the textbook affordability crisis: open textbooks. These books are similar to traditional texts, except that they are offered free online and sold for lower prices in print. If open textbooks gain traction in the marketplace, they could drive textbook costs down for good.
Come learn from these speakers, who provide a variety of perspectives on textbook affordability and open textbooks as a solution:
• Nicole Allen, a consumer advocate from the Student Public Interest Research Groups and director of Make Textbooks Affordable.
• Levi Menovske, a junior at UC-Davis and leader of the student open textbooks campaign in California.
• Eric Frank, co-founder of an open textbook publishing company and veteran of the traditional publishing industry.
• Joining this group will be a professor and a student to share their experiences with using an open textbook in a college course.
• Introduction by Dr. Cable Green from the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges.
Business Intelligence at BlackrockByEmmanuella Omeife, OluwaTawnaDelatorrejs
Business Intelligence at Blackrock
By
Emmanuella Omeife, Oluwatobi Elugbadebo,
Muthu Krishnan Selvam & Rakesh Reddy
Agenda
Introduction
Blackrock Overview
Business Intelligence Overview
Blackrocks Database
Results
Next Steps
Summary
Blackrock Overview
Blackrock Overview
Organization Overview: Blackrock is a major Asian food chain established in 2001 with over 100+ restaurant locations in the United States
Current Challenge: Blackrock’s leadership team is interested in learning how they can harness their data to make better business decisions
Research Question:
How can Blackrock utilize Microsoft PowerBI to compare the popularity between Soba, Ramen & Pho ?
To help blackrock, we helped them to solve on their major challenges which is to compare popularity between soba , etc
Business Intelligence Overview
Definition: Process by which businesses analyze current and historical data using technological tools in enhancing strategic decision-making and staying ahead of the competition.
Purpose: Business intelligence tools have made it easier which process big data sets from many sources and deliver insights in visual representations that are easy to grasp and distribute.
Example of BI Tools: Power BI, Tableau, Datephine, Google Studio, Microstrategy, Zoho Analytics
Business Intelligence
Brand Positioning: Organizations can Identify trends that might enable them make effective decisions on their brand
Efficiency: Business Intelligence supports more effective decision making by relying on data-driven strategies and insights
Competitive Advantage: Business Intelligence supports knowledge sharing and organizational innovation, which can enable organizations develop a competitive advantage. (Eidizadeh et al., 2017)
Business Intelligence Benefits
For example, you can look at when your restaurant is busiest, change your staffing plan, and deal with the demand increase.
Blackrocks Database
Assessment: Blackrock’s current database contains over 100,000 customer and marketing data.
Next Steps: To show Blackrock how business intelligence tools can support them, we decided to solve an ongoing problem the team was having in comparing the popularity between Soba, Ramen, and Pho
Current Database Assessment
For example, you can look at when your restaurant is busiest, change your staffing plan, and deal with the demand increase.
Inputs: Google Trends search history on Pho, Ramen, and Soba
Tool: Microsoft's Power BI.
Benefits of Power BI: Rich features, superior accessibility, user friendly and embeddable attributes
Application
Results
Results and Findings
This graphic was extracted from our final Power BI report. It compares the number of times Pho, Ramen, and Soba were searched every year since 2016.
Here are some of the findings:
Ramen is consistently the most searched category amongst the three categories
Soba is the least searched category
Ramen and Pho are more popular in the u ...
The document provides an overview of Amazon, including its history, business model, and competitive strategies. It discusses how Amazon started as Cadabra Inc. and was named after the Amazon river to reflect Jeff Bezos' vision of building a large phenomenon. It also notes that Amazon owns no real estate directly and achieved $5 billion in sales in 2003, much faster than Walmart. The summary then highlights Amazon's focus on customers, sellers, and developers as three key customer sets and its core competencies of Jeff Bezos' leadership, culture of openness, technical infrastructure, and logistics abilities.
This newsletter provides tips and resources for parents and children preparing for the new school year. It includes articles on easing back-to-school jitters, family recipes and crafts, and a calendar of activities for the week. The purpose is to help families transition smoothly from summer to the upcoming school year.
This document outlines an ebook marketing and promotions workshop with the following goals:
1) Improve promotion and marketing of ebooks throughout the CUNY system.
2) Provide a toolkit to guide librarians through marketing strategies like the "5 P's of Marketing".
3) Customizable checklists for librarians to promote ebook resources on their own campuses.
The workshop covers technical access issues, electronic and print promotions, and creative promotion strategies. Attendees are encouraged to discuss local practices and share what marketing techniques have been effective.
Rentthatbook.com is a proposed book rental business that aims to provide college students an affordable alternative to purchasing textbooks from campus bookstores. The business plan outlines objectives to focus on customer satisfaction through competitive pricing and availability of required course materials. Key aspects include renting books to students for a fraction of the retail price and allowing returns at the end of the semester. The plan requests funding to cover startup costs such as inventory, equipment, and advertising to launch stores near college campuses and an online retail website.
See Amy Nicholson's presentation slides from Marketing Week Live 2016. She will walk you through the 7 things you need to get straight before you get started on the path to content success.
Whatever your content challenge, find out how to solve it with these 7 steps to content marketing heaven.
Here are the highlights of the Salesforce Summer '13 release for Salesforce Foundation customers. You can find full details about the new release at http://www.salesforce.com/customer-resources/releases.
The document provides an overview of Amazon as the world's most customer-centric company. It discusses Amazon's history beginning as an online bookstore founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Today, Amazon has over 566,000 employees and annual revenue of $177.9 billion as the global leader in e-commerce. The document outlines Amazon's business model focusing on three customer sets - consumers, sellers, and developers. It describes Amazon's various products and services including retail, Kindle, Alexa, Echo, and Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform.
Stretching Money and Influence: Improving Library Collections Through Advocac...kramsey
The document discusses ways to improve library collections through advocacy, obtaining open-source materials, and redecorating spaces. It recommends attending advocacy institutes to promote the library. Free resources include open access journals, syllabi, bookmooch, and gift books. Grants and used books can also strengthen collections. Rearranging spaces and shifting formats can maximize resources without increasing costs. Interlibrary loan requests show unmet needs that could be filled.
Quick Guide on Multi Marketplace Solution - FaabMultiChannel.comAkhtar Kasia
What is Faab Multi Channel?
How can it help me with my shop on Amazon, Ebay, Rakuten and other marketplaces?
Sign up for a FREE 30 day Trial and try it for yourself. Go visit www.faabMultiChannel.com
Transcript: New from BookNet Canada for 2023: Loan Stars - Tech Forum 2023BookNet Canada
In this short presentation, BookNet Canada’s Jackie Fry shares what's changed for the Loan Stars program.
Link to presentation: https://youtu.be/GyO3YYaqfXM
Presented by BookNet Canada on April 3, 2023, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
This document provides an overview of library orientation for CPD students. It introduces library services and materials, then guides students through exercises to find one newspaper/magazine article, one website, and one book related to their topic using library databases and the catalog. Students work with response cards to answer polling questions. The presentation emphasizes criteria for evaluating website authority and quality and demonstrates how to search the library catalog.
1. The document provides training for teachers on developing websites on the Schoolwires platform for the UMASS school district to communicate with students and parents and streamline teacher responsibilities.
2. It reviews the goals and timeline for transitioning to the new website, demonstrates features of the Schoolwires system like creating pages and calendars, and addresses common issues teachers may face in developing their site.
3. The afternoon agenda involves teachers working independently and collaboratively to build out their website pages and learn additional Schoolwires tools like surveys, podcasting and blogging.
sample documented essay. (PDF) Bruce Bienenstock Documented Essay 5 July 2016 | Bruce .... SOLUTION: Sample documented essay dela torre - Studypool. Documented Essay Writing Guide for a Winning Composition. What Is a Documented Essay? How-to Guide, Ideas, & Documented Essay Example. 001 Essay Example Professional ~ Thatsnotus. Helpful Ideas on How to Write a Documented Essay. Documented Essay The Assignment. 018 Mla Format Essay Example ~ Thatsnotus. 10 english 12b - documented argument mastery assignment | Citation | Essays. Sample Essay Critique - Research Based Essay. Documented Essay Example Pdf - Essay Writing Top.
This guide provides an overview of the key features and functionality of Outlook 2016 for Mac, including how to access tools and commands via ribbon tabs, search and navigate mail folders, set up accounts, organize mail with rules, and switch between mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes views. It also briefly outlines how to get help and provide feedback on Outlook.
Amazon started as an online bookstore called Cadabra Inc. and was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. The company name was changed to Amazon to reflect Bezos' vision of building something large in scale like the Amazon river. Amazon has grown tremendously over the years through strategic acquisitions and investments, innovative new offerings like the Kindle e-reader, and maintaining high operational efficiencies and customer convenience.
Textbook prices have risen more than twice the rate of inflation for the past 25 years, and now cost the average student $900 per year. Publishers continue to exacerbate the problem by pumping out new editions every few years and packaging books with costly extras like CDs and passcodes. Students, instructors, colleges and parents share frustration with the high cost of textbooks, but what can be done?
This webinar will present information about a forthcoming solution to the textbook affordability crisis: open textbooks. These books are similar to traditional texts, except that they are offered free online and sold for lower prices in print. If open textbooks gain traction in the marketplace, they could drive textbook costs down for good.
Come learn from these speakers, who provide a variety of perspectives on textbook affordability and open textbooks as a solution:
• Nicole Allen, a consumer advocate from the Student Public Interest Research Groups and director of Make Textbooks Affordable.
• Levi Menovske, a junior at UC-Davis and leader of the student open textbooks campaign in California.
• Eric Frank, co-founder of an open textbook publishing company and veteran of the traditional publishing industry.
• Joining this group will be a professor and a student to share their experiences with using an open textbook in a college course.
• Introduction by Dr. Cable Green from the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges.
Business Intelligence at BlackrockByEmmanuella Omeife, OluwaTawnaDelatorrejs
Business Intelligence at Blackrock
By
Emmanuella Omeife, Oluwatobi Elugbadebo,
Muthu Krishnan Selvam & Rakesh Reddy
Agenda
Introduction
Blackrock Overview
Business Intelligence Overview
Blackrocks Database
Results
Next Steps
Summary
Blackrock Overview
Blackrock Overview
Organization Overview: Blackrock is a major Asian food chain established in 2001 with over 100+ restaurant locations in the United States
Current Challenge: Blackrock’s leadership team is interested in learning how they can harness their data to make better business decisions
Research Question:
How can Blackrock utilize Microsoft PowerBI to compare the popularity between Soba, Ramen & Pho ?
To help blackrock, we helped them to solve on their major challenges which is to compare popularity between soba , etc
Business Intelligence Overview
Definition: Process by which businesses analyze current and historical data using technological tools in enhancing strategic decision-making and staying ahead of the competition.
Purpose: Business intelligence tools have made it easier which process big data sets from many sources and deliver insights in visual representations that are easy to grasp and distribute.
Example of BI Tools: Power BI, Tableau, Datephine, Google Studio, Microstrategy, Zoho Analytics
Business Intelligence
Brand Positioning: Organizations can Identify trends that might enable them make effective decisions on their brand
Efficiency: Business Intelligence supports more effective decision making by relying on data-driven strategies and insights
Competitive Advantage: Business Intelligence supports knowledge sharing and organizational innovation, which can enable organizations develop a competitive advantage. (Eidizadeh et al., 2017)
Business Intelligence Benefits
For example, you can look at when your restaurant is busiest, change your staffing plan, and deal with the demand increase.
Blackrocks Database
Assessment: Blackrock’s current database contains over 100,000 customer and marketing data.
Next Steps: To show Blackrock how business intelligence tools can support them, we decided to solve an ongoing problem the team was having in comparing the popularity between Soba, Ramen, and Pho
Current Database Assessment
For example, you can look at when your restaurant is busiest, change your staffing plan, and deal with the demand increase.
Inputs: Google Trends search history on Pho, Ramen, and Soba
Tool: Microsoft's Power BI.
Benefits of Power BI: Rich features, superior accessibility, user friendly and embeddable attributes
Application
Results
Results and Findings
This graphic was extracted from our final Power BI report. It compares the number of times Pho, Ramen, and Soba were searched every year since 2016.
Here are some of the findings:
Ramen is consistently the most searched category amongst the three categories
Soba is the least searched category
Ramen and Pho are more popular in the u ...
The document provides an overview of Amazon, including its history, business model, and competitive strategies. It discusses how Amazon started as Cadabra Inc. and was named after the Amazon river to reflect Jeff Bezos' vision of building a large phenomenon. It also notes that Amazon owns no real estate directly and achieved $5 billion in sales in 2003, much faster than Walmart. The summary then highlights Amazon's focus on customers, sellers, and developers as three key customer sets and its core competencies of Jeff Bezos' leadership, culture of openness, technical infrastructure, and logistics abilities.
This newsletter provides tips and resources for parents and children preparing for the new school year. It includes articles on easing back-to-school jitters, family recipes and crafts, and a calendar of activities for the week. The purpose is to help families transition smoothly from summer to the upcoming school year.
This document outlines an ebook marketing and promotions workshop with the following goals:
1) Improve promotion and marketing of ebooks throughout the CUNY system.
2) Provide a toolkit to guide librarians through marketing strategies like the "5 P's of Marketing".
3) Customizable checklists for librarians to promote ebook resources on their own campuses.
The workshop covers technical access issues, electronic and print promotions, and creative promotion strategies. Attendees are encouraged to discuss local practices and share what marketing techniques have been effective.
Rentthatbook.com is a proposed book rental business that aims to provide college students an affordable alternative to purchasing textbooks from campus bookstores. The business plan outlines objectives to focus on customer satisfaction through competitive pricing and availability of required course materials. Key aspects include renting books to students for a fraction of the retail price and allowing returns at the end of the semester. The plan requests funding to cover startup costs such as inventory, equipment, and advertising to launch stores near college campuses and an online retail website.
See Amy Nicholson's presentation slides from Marketing Week Live 2016. She will walk you through the 7 things you need to get straight before you get started on the path to content success.
Whatever your content challenge, find out how to solve it with these 7 steps to content marketing heaven.
Here are the highlights of the Salesforce Summer '13 release for Salesforce Foundation customers. You can find full details about the new release at http://www.salesforce.com/customer-resources/releases.
The document provides an overview of Amazon as the world's most customer-centric company. It discusses Amazon's history beginning as an online bookstore founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Today, Amazon has over 566,000 employees and annual revenue of $177.9 billion as the global leader in e-commerce. The document outlines Amazon's business model focusing on three customer sets - consumers, sellers, and developers. It describes Amazon's various products and services including retail, Kindle, Alexa, Echo, and Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform.
Stretching Money and Influence: Improving Library Collections Through Advocac...kramsey
The document discusses ways to improve library collections through advocacy, obtaining open-source materials, and redecorating spaces. It recommends attending advocacy institutes to promote the library. Free resources include open access journals, syllabi, bookmooch, and gift books. Grants and used books can also strengthen collections. Rearranging spaces and shifting formats can maximize resources without increasing costs. Interlibrary loan requests show unmet needs that could be filled.
Quick Guide on Multi Marketplace Solution - FaabMultiChannel.comAkhtar Kasia
What is Faab Multi Channel?
How can it help me with my shop on Amazon, Ebay, Rakuten and other marketplaces?
Sign up for a FREE 30 day Trial and try it for yourself. Go visit www.faabMultiChannel.com
Transcript: New from BookNet Canada for 2023: Loan Stars - Tech Forum 2023BookNet Canada
In this short presentation, BookNet Canada’s Jackie Fry shares what's changed for the Loan Stars program.
Link to presentation: https://youtu.be/GyO3YYaqfXM
Presented by BookNet Canada on April 3, 2023, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
This document provides an overview of library orientation for CPD students. It introduces library services and materials, then guides students through exercises to find one newspaper/magazine article, one website, and one book related to their topic using library databases and the catalog. Students work with response cards to answer polling questions. The presentation emphasizes criteria for evaluating website authority and quality and demonstrates how to search the library catalog.
8. From Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog on January 12, 2010: “I do know this. Once a budget plan is presented to the public via the school board, it is almost impossible to change. Any influence we have has to be exerted during the planning – we can’t wait to react.”
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10. Definition of a Vendor According to Merriam-Webster OnLine Etymology: Anglo-French vendur, from vendre to sell, from Latin vendere Definition: one that vends : see seller The person in a business deal who hands over an item in exchange for money <we're thinking of making a deal with that other software vendor> Synonyms: dealer, merchandiser, seller Related Words: trader, distributor, retailer, wholesaler, peddler, salesperson In the school library world, the word “jobber” is also used to describe the vendor. specifically: a wholesaler who operates on a small scale or who sells only to retailers and institutions
11. Examples of Vendors Retailers – Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, etc. Publishers – Capstone, Lerner, etc. Jobbers – Rainbow, Gumdrop, Davidson, Bound to Stay Bound, Perma-Bound, Baker & Taylor, Follett Generally working with a static inventory that they have purchased for resale (some limited exceptions) Acquisition Service – Mackin Company who provides access to the materials you require from the publishers that you want to work with. Not restricted to static inventory – accessing publisher inventory on an as-needed basis (just-in-time, on-demand format) Designed to acquire materials to fulfill a need.
13. About Mackin 26 years working with school libraries Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota Family-owned company that now operates globally Specializing in school-by-school, district-by-district customization (we design our services to fit your needs)
14. One-Source Service for Schools World’s largest, age-appropriate PreK-12 database Mackin provides access to over 18,000 publishers including: Abdo Publishing Company Arte Publico Albert Whitman Barefoot Books Boyds Mill Press Charlesbridge Publishing Chronicle Books Child’s Play Crabtree Publishing Dorling Kindersley Dover Books Eakin Publications Firefly Books Publishers Group West Portage & Main Press Random House Salina Bookshelf Santillana Publishing Co. Spotlight Books Simon & Schuster Scholastic Star Bright Books Steck-Vaughn Sunbelt Publications T & N Children’s Publishing VHPS Gareth Stevens Harcourt Brace Harper Collins Houghton Mifflin Holiday House Kane Miller Lee & Lou Books Lectorum National Council on Education Northland Publishing Pacific Learning Penguin USA
30. Free Custom Cataloging MARC records created and customized to customer specifications Compatible with all online catalogs and circulation systems
31. Precision Quality Control Order accuracy is our mandate Multiple checkpoints throughout the process ensure the quality of cataloging, processing, packing, and shipping
34. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 1. Get started Begin on the home page (www.mackin.com) by registering to establish secure access to the site, with a private password of your choice that you use each time to log in.
35. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 2. Create your profile. Tell Mackin.com how you like to search. Go to My Profile (under My Mackin in the top menu). You can set up search defaults, interest levels, binding display and even parameters for multiple school ordering.
36. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 3. Search for titles. There are over 2 million titles in the Mackin.com database, which means you have a great chance of finding the titles you seek. The process begins on the Search page, which includes a SEARCH BY dropdown menu, a field to enter your keyword(s) and a selection of parameters to help you define your query.
37. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 4. OR, use our suggested lists. Our experienced librarians continually create lists of titles that you can modify, specific to your state, for your library or classroom. We also include lists of best new titles, and state and national standards, as well as School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Library Media Connection selections.
38. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 5. Navigate your search results. You can customize your search results by adding and removing columns of information using the Column link to the top right of the search results list. Publisher, Dewey, ISBN, AR Quiz, Language – there are over 15 options available. Your column choices will stay as your continue searching and the next time you log in.
39. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 6. Select titles/create a list. Create a new list or select a saved list in the drop-down box above your search results. When you click on the Select box next to a title, it is immediately added and saved to your current open list. To remove a selection, simply uncheck it. One-click selection!
40. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 7. Manage your lists. To see all your submitted and unsubmitted lists, go to My Book Lists (under My Mackin in the top menu). You can sort by clicking on the column headings; edit, delete or forward a list; merge, move, or copy a list; and even calculate the total for a group of lists. To see the details of a specific list, click on the list name. To change the quantity of a title, enter the desired quantity in the Qty. field, then press Enter/Return.
41. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 8. Choose your cataloging and processing options. To select your specifications for the first time, go to My Specs (under My Mackin in the top menu). Follow the instructions and click the Submit to Mackin when you’re done. You also can print out a PDF specifications form and mail or fax to us when complete. To make changes to your specs on future orders, call Customer Service.
42. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 9. Time to order! When you’re ready to place an order (also called submitting a list), click the Order Now button on your open list page. If you need to make any changes on a submitted order, please call Customer Service.
43. 10 Steps to Using Mackin.com 10. What else can you do on Mackin.com? Analyze your collection Request a custom list from our expert librarians (collection development) Learn about Opening Day Collections Discover Mackin’s extensive, customized classroom services Find out more about interactive eBooks and online databases Register for Funds4Books, an online fundraiser Check out industry trends and grant resources Review Publisher Showcase and more!
44. Register Now! Register now on Mackin.com, by selecting “College Student” as your job title. We look forward to working with you!
45. For more information, questions, or comments: Susan Grimes – TX Sales Consultantsusan.grimes@mackin.com800-245-9540 (toll-free) or 817-233-4071 (cell) Mackin Customer Service 800-245-9540 (toll-free) customerservice@mackin.com