Idaho Commission for Libraries

The online Annual Report Form for FY08 is now ready and available. This year we have a new form. You will find it here: http://collect.btol.com Usernames and passwords are the same as last year, but if you do not know, or have forgotten them, please call us and we will get that information to you. If we are not in the office you can leave a message on our answering machine and we will return your call.

Some of the improvements with this new version of Collect are that you can now access your previous reports back to FY2000, the program does not take over your computer screen, you can easily move back and forth between pages and the totals on each page show up as you enter them. No more having to click the UPDATE button. Also, you now can use Internet Explorer or Firefox to access your form.

We’re hoping that the pop-up blocker issue is resolved with this new Collect version, but if you have any trouble logging in do the following:
To allow access to this site, in Internet Explorer 7, go to Tools, Pop-Up Blocker, Pop-Up Blocker Settings and add collect.btol.com to the list of allowed sites. Click on Add then Close. You should be able to access the site now, but you may have to close Internet Explorer and reopen it for the change to take effect. We don’t know yet if it will be a problem with Firefox.

This year, you have the option to see or hide last year’s data. There is a gold button in the upper right hand corner that allows to you do this. For your library’s hours of operation, if your winter and summer hours are the same, there is a box for you to check. If the box is checked, we will enter that data for you. You will not have to reenter the same data in the Summer Hours area.

As always, you will be able to alert us to any changes in any area of the report by leaving a message in the note to the right of each question.

The due date for this report and the Board Certification page is January 31, 2009. You can get a copy of the Board Certification page here.

We hope that you will find this new version of Collect more user friendly. Please let us know if you have any problems or questions.

Frank Nelson
Debby Wylie
Idaho Commission For Libraries - Eastern Field Office
525-7211 1-800-548-6212
frank.nelson@libraries.idaho.gov
debby.wylie@libraries.idaho.gov