CCS News
OCTOBER 5, 2007
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Telephone – Usually we have some to personally answer your call at 847-342-5303. However if you ever need to leave a voice mail message for computer room staff, you can press “11” slowly at Bonnie’s prompt which will direct you immediately to computer room voice mail. When you leave a message in this box our phones light up, so if we were momentarily away we would see the light flash.
Report printing – we have issued the following schedule on which we will suspend the delivery of printed reports. All reports are now available electronically.
OnShelf Hold Items (Open Holds Pick List) – evening of October 2
Daily Selfcheck Stats – evening of October 9
Daily List Items w/chg-dvd (NIK) – evening of October 9
Daily List Items w/chg (NIK) – evening of October 9
Search Shelves – evening of October 9
Daily Checkin Statistics – evening of October 16
Daily Checkout Statistics – evening of October 16
Daily Renewal Statistics – evening of October 16
Daily Hold Pickup List – evening of October 23
DID YOU KNOW?
Did you know that a problem with Properties has been reported for the Java Checkin Bookdrop wizard, but it turns out the issue is one of poor design and not really a bug? When the Behavior to “Allow discharge dates in the future” remains unchecked, one would assume that Workflows will prevent setting checkin dates beyond the current date. But unfortunately it’s still possible to enter a future date when processing bookdrop items. I tried this in Java and got the same result, but after working with Sirsi I learned that the date field works as designed, it’s just not a very good design. Although it’s possible to ENTER a date in the future in the “Enter Date of Discharge” field (which it should not allow), WorkFlows doesn’t actually use that erroneous date for the discharge. When you proceed with the checkin, an error message is displayed that warns you that the “Date must be today or earlier” and you must fix the date before you can check-in the item. Since more than one person has been fooled by the poor design, I wanted to alert other Java users that this particular Properties setting can be deceptive. Ken Victorson
“FUTURE OF THE ILS” SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS ONLINE:
The symposium organized by Lincoln Trail Libraries System in Champaign on September 13-14 on “The Future Of Integrated Library Systems” featured a quality array of presenters and information. Many of the presentation handouts may be accessed online at
http://www.lincolntrail.info/ilssymposium2007/agendapage.html
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None! (We avoided conflicts with ILA and hope attendees enjoy the conference!)
