New Summer Reader Version Released

With the Beta Bug Hunt Contest complete and with the new manual ready as well we are proud to announce the official 2009 release of Summer Reader.  A couple things to note:

Everyone who is current on their maintenance or subscription payments is eligible for this upgrade at NO ADDITIONAL charge.  The upgrades can be done at any time and require almost no downtime (a couple minutes worst case).  All of your data and programs will be preserved without problems (though we do suggest just in case you do wait until any live and open off season programs you might be running are complete before scheduling your upgrade).  Click Here for a complete list of NEW features or see page 115 of the new manual (yes it's actually ready this year) which can be downloaded at: http://www.evancedsolutions.com/manuals.asp

To schedule your upgrade you need to do only 1 of the following 3 things:

1. Email Evanced Support (support@evancedsolutions.com) that you would like to be upgraded as soon as possible and at anytime.
2. Email Support that you want to be upgraded as soon as possible but during a certain time of day window (please specify e.g. "Before 9AM EDT")
3. Email Support that you would like to be upgraded on a certain date during a certain time window (again please specify Date & Time Window). For this option you must give us at least a 5 day cushion to be sure we can accommodate that specific date and time.

IF you are part of the Statewide licenses in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or Arizona and YOU didn't already have the software prior to the start of your State's statewide contract then you DO NOT need to email support about your upgrade as it has already been done and your system should be on the newest version already.

For a look at what libraries are already doing with Patron Side templates this year and some screen shots from last year see this Google Doc slide show: