CCS News
JULY 9, 2010
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Business as usual? - for the most part the Computer Room has been percolating along taking care of routine tasks which are never really routine. Some of the things we continue to work on are diagnosing holds anomalies or suspected anomalies, DNS improvements, turning our test server into Oracle/Unicode to reflect the production server, forays into the world of RevD for iBistro in preparation for the next release, keeping our air conditioning running well (a challenge in the summer months), preparing our machines for Bibliocommons testing, performing voodoo rituals to ward off power outages and filling in for absent staff members. We need to mention thanks to our experienced and capable staff of part timers who saw us through the power outage and have been dealing admirably with evening air conditioning situations over the past few weeks.
Sunday night staffing - Jim O'Day has completed his training and will be taking over the night operator shift on Sunday evening.
“COOKERY” TO “COOKING” COOKING SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES PROGRESS REPORT:
As promised, there were many subject heading changes in the CCS database this week and last week. This is because of the LC subject heading change of “Cookery” to “Cooking”. Most of these types of changes are done. Over 427 headings have been changed so far (or about 15,000 bibliographic records). Thank goodness our computer system can do the majority of changes by itself.
The main subject heading change revolves around the subject heading of “Cookery”. “Cookery” will be divided into “Cooking” and “Cookbooks”. Other headings like “Cookery, Chinese” and “Cookery (Nuts)” will become “Cooking, Chinese” or “Cooking (Nuts)”. There will be references sending the catalog user to the authorized form of the heading.
Since there is a split between “Cooking” and “Cookbooks”, many of those 2500 bib. records and others will have to be done manually. These manual changes will appear gradually over the next few weeks too.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 7/14, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 7/15, 9:30, Zion-Benton: PAS
