CCS News

APRIL 30, 2010

FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Unicode/Oracle conversion - it is done! Thanks to everyone for their support through this process – shown to us in many ways. We are still dealing with the reality of the new environment, and some adjustments are inevitable such as the recent problems with the index update in the night and other system scripts. We are in the midst of analyzing bibliographic and authority records that appeared in our error reports. We are observing that reports are actually running better than we expected, but re-balancing is needed and will be done a few reports at a time. We have also shared with SirsiDynix that their staff were outstanding working with us in a spirit of true collaboration. SirsiDynix had very senior staff on this project and we learned how very much each one of these staff members cared about doing a good job for the libraries and our patrons.

Email Server - the new email server is targeted now for implementation on May 6.

AUTHORITIES NEWS:
No new subject heading changes to report on, but 2 files were loaded this week from Marcive – one contained 1940 updated authority records and another contained 519 new authority records that were not available before, but needed in our system.

--Virginia
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian

CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:

Wed., 5/5, 9:30, NSLS: Catalogers (workshop)