CCS News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Help Desk – Thank you for using the Wonderdesk Help Desk for logging incidents. This is the very best way we have for the CCS team to collaborate to answer your questions, track progress and deal with issues.

EPAY is fixed – as you might have noted from the S-help list – ePAY is being worked on. We have discovered and fixed two problems that occur ONLY when the patron partially pays off a fine through WORKFLOWS. Sirsi was quick to respond and ePAY appears to be working now as of this writing. This means we will be able to continue our implementation of ePAY for libraries desiring this feature.

LIBRARY CLOSING:
Winnetka-Northfield will be closed Friday, October 2, for a Staff Day.

SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES:
LC is changing all the Hindu and some Christian subject headings so that they are in direct order (like what they did earlier this year with the Buddhists). So for headings like “Mythology, Hindu” ,“Gods, Hindu”, “Heresies, Christian”, and “Stewardship, Christian”, use the term “Hindu mythology”, “Hindu gods”, “Christian heresies”, and “Christian stewardship”.

Another important subject heading change is from “Women in politics” to “Women – Political activity”.

And for all those “Ice road trucker” fans, the subject heading of “Roads, Ice” has been changed to “Ice crossings”.

For all these headings and other similar terms, all affected bibliographic records have been changed in our database.

Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian

(Editor’s Note: We join Virginia in appreciating the job security the Library Of Congress is providing for her.)

CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:

None, due mostly to ILA. Please take a look at Sirsi’s Enterprise 3.0 if you go, and enjoy!)