CCS News
AUGUST 6, 2010
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Good News –Bad News:
The good news is that the power outage that was scheduled by Com Ed last week never occurred. Bob, Rory and Frank took the servers down on Friday night in preparation for the power outage overnight. The next morning things were brought back on line, only to discover the work scheduled by Com Ed never took place. The bad news: as of this writing, the work has not been rescheduled by Com Ed, and no word yet on a future date or time. We will keep you posted, if and when this happens, but this is not under our control…
IMPENDING ABSENCE FOR ROGER ANDERSON:
CCS Database Manager Roger Anderson sent out the following email on August 4:
Dear Catalogers,
Just to keep you informed, and in case there might be some global change projects in your near future, I will be on a medical leave of absence starting August 25 and returning approximately six weeks later (October 6, the date of our next catalogers’ meeting). If it’s possible for you to anticipate that far in advance, please submit such global change requests soon so I can work on them. But rest assured that if you need something done during my absence that you could not plan ahead, we will make every possible effort to accommodate you.
Other than the false alarm about the power outage (thanks, ComEd), we’ve been testing BiblioCommons, rolling out a prototype of the nextGen version of iBistro (e-Library RevD), poring over the Unicorn Release 3.3.1 Release Notes to prepare for testing and presentations to the Technical Groups, keeping the office humming in Bonnie’s continued absence as she recovers on schedule (knock on wood) and working with other vacations, and preparing for Roger Anderson’s upcoming leave. We’ll keep this short this week and wish everyone a good what’s left of summer!
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 8/10, 11:30, Jameson’s: Technical Group Chairs lunch
Wed., 8/11, 9:30, CCS: OPAC Review Task Force
Thur., 8/12, 9:30, Dundee: ILL
(Note: the 8/11 Executive Committee meeting is canceled per August tradition!)
