CCS News

MARCH 25, 2011

FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BiblioCommons News and FAQ on the web site – From our ccslib.org website, go to Members Only, type in your password, scroll down to FAQ and click the link labeled BiblioCommons. This is the same document that can be accessed from the WonderDesk. Check this frequently to be up to date with the latest discovered anomalies, workarounds, bug fixes or information of general interest. We will continue to update the WonderDesk with more specific information (urls, links, settings, instructions etc.) to be a resource to network and technical staff as well as librarians seeking more specifics.

SVA – Thanks for your patience with SVA over the last week. We are still working out the root cause of the original outage, but you will be interested to know that our SVA server had already been scheduled for an upgrade which will take place around the end of April. This problem occurred right after we ordered the new machine – a very strange coincidence. We will keep you posted on this upgrade.

AUTHORITY NEWS:
Earlier this week, CCS loaded 2 files that were obtained from Marcive. One file contained 1761 updated authority records and the other file contained 429 authority records that were needed, but not available until now.

In other authority news, watch for a major subject heading to be split apart into at least three ways beginning sometime in April. The subject heading of “Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.” will be split into “Airplane crash survival”, “Shipwreck survival”, “Survival”, and “Survival at sea”. Because of the different variations of subject heading changes, bibliographic records with the original subject heading will have to be changed manually. So watch for the changes to occur gradually during the next month or so.

Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian

CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:

None!