CCS News
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Unicode Oracle Conversion – the computer room has been quite focused on testing and planning for the Unicode Oracle conversion.
1. Date for Conversion is the week of April 19 - – Have you heard? We plan to do the Unicode conversion during the week of April 19. We will tell you more about the exact schedule based on the results of timing tests that we are conducting on the test servers.
2. Testing – many libraries have been participating in the task to create test data. Thank you for your diligence in this task.
3. Reporting – when reporting problems or questions, it is good to copy others in the computer room or post your question through the Wonderdesk.
SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES AND OTHER AUTHORITIES NEWS:
on Feb. 17, over 500 bib. records were changed to reflect the subject heading change of “Lions” to “Lion”. This change occurred because LC finally decided to conform with their own rule, that headings for animals that are only one species should be established in singular form, whereas headings for animals covering more than one species are established in plural form. [Editor’s note: we thought there were multiple species of lions.]
Last week, over 100 bib. records were changed to reflect another change from “Enemies (Persons)” to just “Enemies”.
Last week, CCS also sent 4936 bibliographic records to Marcive for authorities processing. We received back 1738 updated bibliographic records, and 2782 new authority records. All records were reloaded into our database. Marcive also started enriching some records with reading notes (Lexile, Accelerated Reader, or Reading Counts).
LEXILE NUMBER/READING NOTES PROJECT:
Last week, when CCS sent the approx. 4900 bibliographical records to Marcive for Overnight Authorities Processing, they also began enriching some bib. records with Reading notes. Marcive enriched some of our records with Lexile, Accelerated Reader, and Reading Counts notes.
Lexile numbers appear in a 521 note
For example : 490|bLexile or AD 560|bLexile.
Accelerated Reader appears in the 526 field
For example: Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning|bMG|c5.7|d2 )
Reading Counts also appears in the 526 field
For example: Reading Counts RC|bHigh School|c8.1|d25|zQuiz: 14149|zGuided reading level: NR.
This week, CCS sent Marcive a copy of our database. Over the next week or so, Marcive will retrospectively add these 3 notes to any of our affected bibliographic records.
THERE WILL BE NO CATALOGING DOWN TIME. When Marcive sends back to us changed records, Roger will use Cataloging Merge to add those new fields to our bibliographic records that are already residing in our database.
Now and when this is finished, searching for these notes can be done using a keyword search or a field specific search. For example, to bring up Reading Counts records, do a keyword general search on “Reading Counts {526}”. During the Oracle move in April, all headings will be re-indexed, and searches indexes will be added so that a patron or staff can search for Lexile or other reading notes.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 2/23, 9:30, CCS: Budget & Finance Committee
Wed., 2/24, 9:30, CCS: Acquisitions Discussion Group
