CCS News
MAY 29, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Welcome to Symphony – With our latest upgrade we are now on SirsiDynix Symphony Release 3.2.1, Patch Cluster 4. Hopefully, by the time you read this all your client stations will be on the new release. Thanks for the many notes of encouragement that came to the computer room regarding this project. Finally, thanks for your patience on the day of the upgrade!
M5000 – We are preparing to cut our production workflows server over from a Sun 890 to a Sun M5000. The new server was installed last week and we are learning how to operate it and we are testing it. The Sirsi software will be installed soon, followed by some testing, including a timing test of how long our files will take to copy. We hope to switch machines the evening of June 10. This is a tentative date at this point.
Linda
SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES OF NOTE:
Last night in our CCS database, there were some subject heading changes that are important enough to report on. For those interested in Buddhist cave temples, use “Buddhist cave temples” instead of “Cave temples, Buddhist”.
On the lighter side, if one is interested in humor in business – use the subject heading of “Wit and humor in business” instead of “Humor in business”. This same type of change occurred also for advertising and education.
The biggest change is for headings that deal with workers from one country who work in another country. The former heading was “Alien labor” (and no, this wasn’t a heading about Martians coming to work on Earth), but now has been changed to “Foreign workers”. Similar headings like “Alien labor, Mexican” have been changed to “Foreign labor, Mexican”.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
EXPIRATION DATES FOR NON-CCS RECIPROCAL BORROWERS:
On May 28, the Governing Board approved setting the expiration dates for non-CCS reciprocal borrowers with Profiles PUBLIC or OUTOFSTATE to three years from the date of registration (this will come up automatically during data entry) or the expiration date assigned by the patron’s home library if it is readily available, e.g., on the card or provided if/when the CCS library registering the reciprocal borrower calls the home library to verify the patron’s good standing. Chicago patrons (Profile CPCPUBLIC) already have an automatic expiration date two years from registration into the CCS database.
This was done to address the disparity whereby non-CCS reciprocal borrowers were given borrowing privileges much more open-ended than most CCS libraries are with their resident patrons.
On May 28, CCS ran a report that set the expiration date for PUBLIC and OUTOFSTATE patrons of May 28, 2012 if there was not already a date in the user record.
If you have questions about this, please contact Richard Shurman at CCS (before the essay test at 8:30 AM Monday).
CONGRATULATIONS to newly elected CCS officers (effective July 1) Janet Van De Carr, Vice President/President-Elect; Jim Scholtz, Secretary; and Diane McNulty, Executive Committee Member-At-Large. Executive Committee holdovers include Scott Davis, President; Kim Martens, Past President; David Seleb, Treasurer; and Mary Johns, Member-At-Large.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., June 3, 9:30, NSLS: Catalogers
