CCS News
APRIL 1, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BiblioCommons PRELIMINARY DATA RECORDS– there have been many questions about format issues so a recent reply from BC is worthy of note in this week’s news.
“All format mapping problems are because the title in question doesn't match the mapping rule we have….Sometimes, it's just a typo. …The mapping rules (all must be true) for a music CD are: Leader type "j", 007 physical designation "d" & physical category "s", 245 $h [[sound recording (CD)]], 300 "sound disc". …Mapping rules for DVDs are:Leader type "g", 245 $h [[videorecording (DVD)]], 300 "videodisc". Ten Commandments has "DVDs" in 300.”
More BC news and information can be found in the WonderDesk FAQ’ or through our ccslib.web site.
TIMELINE FOR NEW SVA SERVER:
Project timeline for the new server is:
Week of April 18, staging of new server will be done at Sirsi. There will be some files copied from current SVA server, should not impact libraries.
Server gets shipped to CCS by April 27, no impact to libraries.
Testing/scan of server the week of May 2 in background, 1 inbound and 1 outbound phone line will be used for testing. Little impact to SVA Production Server, since two of the eight lines will be needed for testing.
Week of May 9, scan results and fixes or recommendations implemented to make server ready for cutover.
SVA server cutover live the week of May 16, first target date will be May 17, alternate date May 19, old server decommissioned. We don’t expect any problems, server would go live at 8:00AM on day of cutover. Message will be sent out the day before the cut over, as a reminder to the libraries.
Frank Correa
IT Systems Engineer
LOCAL SUBJECT HEADINGS
Joel Hahn has spent much of the past week analyzing the content of our local subject headings—those tagged 69X in our database. I did further study and began correcting and changing many and have concluded thus far that considerable work needs to be done by us to retag and reformat most of the headings we term “local.” We want the indexing of these headings to provide the most use for the users of the catalog and believe that in their present state, simply having them indexed “as is” would not be beneficial to users of our catalog. We are going to have to spend most of the next few weeks making many of these changes and at some point thereafter, we will let BiblioCommons know how the remaining local subject headings should be indexed.
~Roger Anderson
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 4/6, 9:30, Glenview: Catalogers
Fri., 4/8, 1:30, CCS: OPAC Review Task Force (noon lunch at Palm Court!)
