CCS News
DECEMBER 17, 2010
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Holiday Hours – the Computer Room will close on December 25 and on January 1. We will close early on December 24 at 1:00 and on January 31 at 5:00. Our special hours are always posted on the WonderDesk.
Director’s Station – the Historical Measures should be fixed completely by December 18. Data in Director’s Station will go back to January 1, 2007; our survey showed that to be sufficient. Thanks for your feedback and patience.
WEB REPORTS:
The CCS Reports Web Page, specifically the SIRSI FINISHED REPORTS web page, has been enhanced to open most of the Sirsi reports and notices directly into MSWORD. You’ll find that this enhancement makes it possible to print both the reports and notices directly from the web, properly formatted, without any adjustments to MSWORD. Just left click the link on the web page and then click print in MSWORD, it’s that simple. All the necessary adjustments to page size, font, font size and margins are being done for you. (Once you left click the link you’re likely to see the familiar prompt: [ Open Save or Cancel ]; click Open.) Saving a document from the SIRSI FINISHED REPORTS web page has become more efficient as well. You will find that when saving the document the name of the document is now supplied. This name includes the date and (military) time that the report was compiled, in an effort to help you manage multiple occurrences of the same report, in the same local disk directory. Not using MSWORD? This enhanced functionality will work for any text editor equipped to handle files in the RTF format.
MANAGEMENT CHANGES AT SIRSIDYNIX:
We received the following press release from SirsiDynix yesterday:
“This morning, we announced that Gary Rautenstrauch has been named Executive Chairman of SirsiDynix, and Matt Hawkins has succeeded him as Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Bill Davison has returned to SirsiDynix as Chief Operating Officer.
We are excited to announce this especially to your, our customer community. It will result in continuous improvement in the technology and support we provide to libraries.
In his new role, Gary will focus on our relationships with customers, industry partners and associations. Matt will lead the SirsiDynix team, focused on our commitment to deliver technology, services and support that libraries need today, as well as bring an active customer voice into our day-to-day operations.
Read the press release in our newsroom: http://www.sirsidynix.com/newsroom
And read more about our executive team here: http://www.sirsidynix.com/company/leadership
If you have any questions about this announcement, please contact your library relations manager, your sales representative, or me. We look forward to an exciting 2011 with you all.”
I (Richard Shurman) would like to add that Gary called to say he will continue to work directly with our account (“one of my favorites”), and that we have been impressed when we have worked with Matt Hawkins. Here’s hoping these changes benefit everyone. Gary also asked me to convey happy holiday wishes!
CCS NEWS NEXT WEEK:
We will do a bulletin next week so everyone will have something exciting to read on Christmas Eve, but not the following week.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 12/21, 9:30, Evanston: Maintenance Coordinators (this is a virtual meeting; please contact CCS if you need access information!)
