CCS News
DECEMBER 7, 2007
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Router and Packetshaper – the router for ICN and our Packetshaper will be rebooted on Tuesday morning Dec 11 between 7:00 and 8:00 am. This means the network will be down for a few moments. You might want to reschedule your earlybirds for Tuesday morning.
Old monitors – we will be recycling old monitors and other peripherals soon. If anyone is interested in old computer junk please contact the computer room immediately. We have the usual old monitors, but we also have an old switch (patch panel), some old Cisco equipment, and our old Geac machine. They will be discarded on Dec 12 unless we have any takers.
Indexes – our indexes are now in good shape again after an unusually long 550 in a bib record imported from OCLC caused the indexes to go “nuts”. We rebuilt the indexes and everything is okay now.
Due Dates – be sure you have checked the web at the appropriate interval before any closures to be sure your closed dates have been entered.
Snow – in case of inclement weather we will put a computer room snow plan into effect. Depending on the time of the advisory, staff may not be in the computer room. Please be aware that our emergency number provided by our Webley service will be in effect in the event that no staff can make it into the computer room during normal library open hours. We also monitor the system from home in the event of an emergency. The Webley number is 866-537-2406 (it is also on our voice mail message). When the snow emergency occurs later at night notice printing will be suspended.
DIRECTOR’S STATION:
The Director’s Station should be accessible next week so that our libraries can:
*get a lot of reports instantly instead of waiting for us to generate them
*get prettier output (color charts, graphs, etc.)
*supplement the reports we already offer
*do a lot of customization
We will send out the login information by e-mail to our trainees. We will start with one login per library but can add more by request. Each login can save its own reports and links into a folder; that’s the chief virtue of having a specific one. When we’re rolling, please contact Glenn Galang with setup issues and Ken Victorson with procedural issues. We will also get out a tip sheet ASAP.
DID YOU KNOW?
Did you know that I’ve been working with the Sirsi trainer to customize the Java classes she’ll deliver at Northbrook during the last week of January and the first week of February? To make sure that the curriculum is as effective as possible, I’m collecting a catalog of specific issues we’d like her to address in those sessions. My goal is to compile a list of as many concrete topics as possible for each type of training (Cataloging, Circulation, Serials, and Acquisitions) so that I can forward them to her and have them incorporated into the program. Typically, each Sirsi on-site training includes a large segment on Essential Skills and generally the sessions focus only on Java client operations. But for most of our sessions, we want the trainer to eliminate the Essential Skills segment and focus more on the issues that are unique to the CCS environment. We also want her to provide a detailed comparison of each operation, looking at the way it works in the C client vs. what we’ll see in the Java client.
Many CCS libraries are currently using Java and have already found (and sent to me) differences between the way wizards, properties, and operations act in the two clients. I’ll be sending all of these known issues to Sirsi for the trainer to cover, but if you or someone on your staff has questions about Java that haven’t yet been given to me, please pass them along as soon as possible so I can include them on the trainer’s to-do list. Ken Victorson
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 12/11, 1:30, Northbrook: Federated
Searching Task Force
Thur., 12/13, 9:30, NSLS: ILL
(Note: The December 13 Executive Committee meeting is canceled!)
Fri., 12/14, 10:00, Northbrook: Federated
Searching Task Force
