CCS News
APRIL 10, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Easter Sunday. All the libraries are closed Easter Sunday, April 12. The Computer Room will be closed as well. As is our usual practice, we will rebuild the bibliographic indexes on Easter Sunday. Workflows and iBistro will be down from 6pm Saturday night and will come up again shortly after midnight on Monday morning. (We have a notification on iBistro and will have the “the catalog is down” page in place.) If the indexing finishes earlier, we will bring up the catalog earlier. Notices and reports that we normally run on Sunday night and early Monday morning will run, however, some could be possibly be delayed until late on Monday morning.
Inactive Holds Purge Test April 14 (Tuesday). We are continuing the long and laborious purge process. We will be conducting a short test Tuesday, April 14 from 8:30 to 9:00 in the morning. The objective of this test is to see if purging inactive holds has a noticeable effect on response time when the production system is up. We really do not know until we test. If the purge process has little effect on response time, then we can schedule some additional purges in the mornings before the libraries open as well as in the night between other reports. Completion of the purge process is a requirement of the 3.2.1 upgrade.
ROGER ANDERSON UPDATE:
Roger had his gall bladder removed last Sunday. He is recovering at home and hopes to be back by the end of next week, but won’t know more till he’s seen his Doctor Monday.
SERIES CHANGES IN THE CCS DATABASE:
Last year, LC & the PCC decided to implement the MARBI’s proposal which made the 440 field obsolete. Series would continue to be traced, but in a slightly different fashion. Since 440’s are now considered obsolete and since CCS usually re-indexes on Easter because all the libraries are closed, we thought it would be a good time to change these series.
After Sunday’s re-indexing, all series should be tagged with a 490 / 8XX combination. For a title series, use the 490 1/830 combination, and for author/title type series, use the 490 1/800 combination.
Enough of this cataloging jargon. What does all this mean for the average database searcher? Things really haven’t changed much. Searching for series within the CCS database remains the same. But for those searchers, who do keyword searches using MARC tags, then you would have to remember to use an {830} instead of a {440} (for example, “ Childhood of famous Americans {830}”).
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
[Editor’s note: There will be an essay test on this item Monday AM.]
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Mon., 4/13, noon, Jameson’s: Technical Group Chairs/Continuing Education Steering Committee Joint Working Lunch
Wed., 4/15, 9:30, Prospect Heights: SCRAP
Wed., 4/15, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 4/16, 9:30, Dundee: ILL
