CCS News
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Unfillable holds report – this new report is now available on your web reports
Dec 11, Tues – the morning of December 11, between 7:00 and 8:00 am we will be working on the network. During that time the system will be down momentarily for a restart. The purpose of this restart is to bring in a new router from ICN and to bring in a new configuration for our Packeteer. The system should be down only for a few minutes, but you might want to reschedule you early bird nevertheless. We will provide a reminder a few minutes before system shutdown that morning via shelp.
Closed dates for 2008 – thanks to all that have responded. We will alert you as we get these input.
AUTHORITY RECORDS PROCESSING UPDATE:
CCS sent approx. 4660 bibliographic records to Marcive on Wednesday, Nov. 28th for Overnight Authorities Processing. The records have been processed and were reloaded into our system, so full cataloging may resume. Of the 4667 bibliographic records, Marcive returned 1400 updated bibliographic records. Marcive also sent us 1802 new authority records. CCS will be sending groups of records for processing each month, so that our database will be kept up to date as much as possible. – Virginia Seward
UNIFORM USER DELINQUENCY THRESHOLDS TRIAL:
After an affirmative vote at the Nov. 28 Governing Board meeting, we have set the delinquency thresholds for all non-staff, non-inventory patrons to 20 overdues, $10.00 in bills and 75 active charges. This is a six month trial and will take effect on Friday, November 30. It will bring increased consistency to how patrons are treated from library to library, and database analysis shows that only a few people per library on average are affected.
DID YOU KNOW?
Did you know that I have two important reminders I want to send out to the CCS community? The first is aimed at the two dozen people that will be participating in the Director’s Station training. I’ve scheduled two sessions to be delivered by Sirsi’s Educational Services group via Webex next Thursday, December 6th at the Northbrook library. Each session will be three hours long and (because of the time difference between here and Utah) will run from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, respectively. I’ll bring copies of the Sirsi Director’s Station End User Training Guide to the training room that day. I sent a message two weeks ago identifying who’s in each session, but (here’s the important part) if you’re a participant and aren’t sure whether you’re in the morning or afternoon session, please contact me soon and I’ll let you know when to attend (seating is extremely limited).
The second reminder concerns the Java Implementation Coordinators that are to be appointed by each CCS library. A library’s Coordinator will be my primary contact for matters related to their migration from the C client to the Java client, but I’ve only heard from about half of the libraries about who will be taking on this role. If your library has not yet selected someone to coordinate the Java client training and implementation project, please do so as soon as possible and forward their name, email address, and phone number to me. Ken Victorson
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 12/5, 9:30, Niles: Catalogers
Thur., 12/6, 10 AM and 2 PM, Northbrook:
Director’s Station End User Training
(You must be registered!)
