CCS News

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Response Time For Workflows – in the past week a few libraries have complained about response time during peak hours on the weekend. In every case we examined, the response time problems were not in the Workflows server or in our pipeline to ICN, but appeared to be at the libraries. When we look at the graphs provided by ICN (if you are on ICN) we can see saturation at the library networks.

Libraries should discuss this with their network engineers/ providers and if you are not already using packet-shaping on your network, this is an option that you might want to explore to help with response time difficulties. We use a Packeteer device; Cymphonix also offers a solution.

Why We Test — Oracle/Unicode Upgrade – As of this writing, Sirsi has restarted our index rebuilds two times on the Oracle platform due to difficulties encountered with individual records when processing the database. This means that we are at the same stage as we were at this time last week and it also points out why testing is important to try to prevent problems from occurring when we run this procedure “for real”.

LEXILE NUMBERS:
We are now planning for the retrospective addition of Lexile Numbers to the database, looking for the most efficient and least disruptive approach. Stay tuned for more details.

CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:

Tues., 2/9, 9:30-11:30 and 1-3, Prospect Heights: BiblioCommons presentations (you must be registered!)

Wed., 2/10, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee

Thur., 2/11, 9:30, Crystal Lake: ILL