OCTOBER 23, 2009

FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
EPAY – The ability for patrons to pay fines using the EPAY system has been quite successful. We now have 8 libraries who are using the EPAY feature with iBistro.

New Report, Cumulative Patron Stats CAT2 – There is a new monthly Excel report that you will see in the web reports. It was first run in October and includes statistics from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2008. It is called Cumulative Patron Stats CAT2 and was designed to help gather RBP information for the IPLAR reports.


Subject heading changes and other Authorities News - The Library of Congress is once again flipping headings so that they are in direct order - we've had Buddhist, Hindu, and some Christian headings changed. Now the newest batch of changes involve Jewish headings. So subject headings like, Art, Jewish" and "Marriage customs and rites, Jewish" have been changed to "Jewish art" and "Jewish marriage customs and rites".

Also the subject headings for "Domestics" and "Women domestics" have been changed to "Household employees" and "Women household employees".

By the time you read this CCS News, all affected bibliographic records have been changed.

Also this week, MARCIVE sent CCS 1434 updated authority records and 414 new authority records that were not available before.

Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian






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