CCS News

JULY 30, 2010

FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Use Wonderdesk – It is always important to post your questions to the Wonderdesk – but it is REALLY important to do so during vacation season. That is so that others on the staff can see your request and respond. We don’t want an email to go unanswered because someone is on vacation.

Power Outage Planned – ComEd has told us that they plan a complete power outage in our area on Friday July 30 at 11pm through Saturday morning at 7am. We will shut down all production servers gracefully before the planned outage beginning at 9:15 pm. We will shut down test servers during the day late Friday afternoon.

Vacations – Linda will be away through August 12 and Bob will be away August 13-23.

SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES AND AUTHORITIES NEWS ON THE ROCKS:
For those who are interested in different kinds of rocks, LC has switched a group of subject headings so that they are now in direct order. What were subject headings such as “ Rocks, Igneous”, “Rocks, Sedimentary”, and “Rocks, Metamorphic” are now “Igneous rocks”, “Sedimentary rocks”, and “Metamorphic rocks”. All affected bibliographic records have been changed and there are references to point the catalog user to the appropriate term.

Also, CCS loaded 2 files from Marcive this week . One included 2280 updated authority records, and another with 528 new authority records that were needed, but were not available before.

CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:

Tues., 8/3, noon, Jameson’s: Continuing Education Steering Committee

Wed., 8/4, 9:30, Niles: Catalogers