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Registration is now OPEN!

Go here to begin your 2021 KLAS Users' Conference attendee registration. The deadline to register is 8:00 PM Eastern / 5:00 PM Pacific Friday, June 4.

If you have any questions about the group registraton process, check out this step-by-step for a detailed explanation with screenshots.

Example: To purchase one Large Group Ticket for 10 people, select 1 "Large Group Ticket" with your name listed as the "Attendee". Then proceed through the payment and checkout options and then add the other 9 persons as "complimentary ticket" holders when prompted to do so.

Conference Theme: Challenges, Changes & Creativity

Conference Flyer:

Download a conference flyer with dates, schedule & registration costs.

KLAS UC2021 Conference Conference Flyer

Conference Dates: June 7-10, 2021

Planned Daily Schedule:

Eastern Time

Pacific Time

Session Type
11:30-1:30 PM 8:30-10:00 AM   General
1:00-1:10 PM  10:00-10:10 AM  Break
1:10-2:00 PM 10:10-11:00 AM  Breakout
2:00-3:00 PM  11:00 AM-Noon Lunch
3:00-3:50 PM Noon-12:50 PM Breakout
3:50-4:00 PM 12:50-1:00 PM Break
4:00-5:00 PM 1:00-2:00 PM General

 Read on for more info about this year's conference format and registration costs and process.

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As announced on the e-list yesterday, registration is now OPEN for the 2021 KLAS Users’ Conference! The deadline to register is 8:00 PM Eastern / 5:00 PM Pacific Friday, June 4.

To make this year's process easier than ever, we chose to use the PheedLoop platform to handle registration and even credit card payments. Yes, you can pay via a credit card this year! If you prefer or need to still pay by check, you can also download an invoice directly from the registration page. 

  • $25 for individual attendee tickets
  • $50 for small group tickets (2-5 persons)
  • $100 for large group tickets (6-10 persons)

Group Ticket Purchases: If you're purchasing more than an individual attendee ticket, one person from your organization can register, select the combination of the tickets needed, and include each individual attendee's name and contact info. Each listed attendee will be emailed their ticket info separately. An organization can purchase whatever combination of individual, small, and large group tickets makes sense for the number of staff they want to attend.

Example: To purchase one Large Group Ticket for 10 people, select 1 "Large Group Ticket" with your name listed as the "Attendee". Then proceed through the payment and checkout options and then add the other 9 persons as "complimentary ticket" holders when prompted to do so.

Follow this link to begin your 2021 KLAS Users' Conference attendee registration or read on for more information about the registration platform.

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It's March 2021. By mid-month last year, all of Keystone's staff started working remotly full time for an undetermined amount of time. Personally, I never thought I'd still be working in my home office across the desk from my husband a full year later! We made changes to how we met as a staff, set expectations for communications and interactions with our coworkers and customers, and started writing blog posts with tips & tricks about remote work with KLAS and how users might continue to serve patrons. 

We intially thought we'd be back sometime early that summer. When that no longer seemed likely, we began making adjustments to how we offer KLAS Admin Training, helped more libraries move to Duplication on Demand, and shared a blog series from libraries about the impact of COVID on their operations. Check out the COVD-19 Keynotes Blog Posts to Date from July 2020 to see the intial ones we wrote and those authored by KLAS Users.

2021 is written out in a sketched font. In place of the 0 is a virus with the red "No" symbol stamped over it, and in place of the 1 is a vaccine syringe.

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We just released a new feature to help Duplication-on-Demand libraries keep their catalogs up to date!

From the 7.7.50 Release List:

You can now choose to have titles automatically updated to an Active status when you add an eDoc, just as you can have titles make themselves Active when you add the first physical item.

But let’s talk a little bit more about what this can do, and who will want to use it.

We expect this will be primarily for libraries using Duplication on Demand, and especially the ones who are (or will soon) be going collectionless. If you don’t have physical copies of anything or have very few physical copies, it only makes sense to make everything you can duplicate “Active.”

Even if you still have a physical collection, if most of your patrons are getting DoD will they be confused that some titles are listed as Active and some are Download Only? Once you zero out your copy allotment, do you want new titles to linger in “In Process” status long after you start duplicating them for patrons?

If any of the above has you thinking, “yes, I want to use this feature!” here’s what to think about...

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First, we want to thank everyone who responded to our 2021 KLAS Users' Conference Planning Survey. We heard you, and we're moving forward based on your input.

The Program and Logistics Committees, the KLAS Users' Group Officers', and Keystone staff have been working diligently to figure out how to shift the conference to an online event. We're really embracing our conference theme of "Challenges, Changes & Creativity"! In the past few weeks, we've shifted our planning timeline and had discussions about dates, schedule, event management software and services, registration costs, session proposals, and more. 

Today, we're excited to share that the 2021 KLAS Users' Conference will be June 7-10, 2021 with the below proposed schedule for each day:

 

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