CCS News
JUNE 26, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Linda is on vacation this week and there is no dispatch from the department. It hardly feels right to have a week without a major upgrade lately. But your Editor has a list of things to consider now or look forward to in the coming year:
*Please work with the Computer Room on setting policies, properties and behaviors for Release 3.2.1, whether it’s hold wrapper printing, Ordered Hold Fill, etc.
*If you’re interested in Sirsi/ePay integration, work with the Illinois Treasurer’s Office (Joey Lau) to get your ePay account set up, then open a WonderDesk incident requesting our assistance.
*We’re still looking to load the fix for the Unavailable For Display software bug on July 9.
*We’re planning to install a new ICN router when we can get it scheduled.
*Major initiatives for July-June include a new mail/web server, selecting and at least beginning implementation of a new OPAC or whatever they’re called by then, going to Oracle and Unicode (with minimal down time and limitation of services according to Sirsi’s new plan), and loading Release 3.3 subject to its passing muster in the field elsewhere.
WORKSHOP IDEAS SOUGHT:
We’d like to stage three CCS workshops during FY09-10 (July-June). If you have suggestions, please convey them to Richard Shurman at CCS.
AUTHORITY NEWS:
This week more subject heading changes were done, including more Buddhist subject heading changes. Subject headings such as “Painting, Buddhist”, “Painting, Zen”, “Philosophy, Buddhist”, and “Monasteries, Buddhist” were all changed. They can now be found under: “Buddhist painting”, “Zen painting”, “Buddhist philosophy”, and “Buddhist monasteries”.
Another important enough change to report is the geographical heading change from “Transcaucasia” to “Caucasus, South”. This change also affected “Cookery, Georgian (Transcaucasian)”, which has been changed to “Cookery, Georgian (South Caucasian)”.
The last change to report on is the fictitious character heading of “Thorsen, Maggy (Fictitious character)”, which was changed from “Thorsen, Maggie (Fictitious character)”.
And on the horizon…I saw that in the next couple of weeks, LC is changing all “family” subject headings. The new subject heading is going to be “Families”. Stay tuned for further developments on this change.
Other news this week, I loaded 1399 updated authority records into our system that were obtained from Marcive, along with 403 new authority records that Marcive knew we needed, but were not available before.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None! But we’re sure spontaneous End Of CCS Fiscal Year celebrations will erupt everywhere...
