Thursday, April 26, 2012
CCS News
APRIL 27, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
COSUGI conference: Bob and Linda will be travelling to the COGUGI conference (along with Richard, Roger and Joel) May 2-6. If you can anticipate any important items needing our attention it would be best if we can act on these early in the coming week or after we return. Naturally, Frank and Willie will be on hand to manage activities in the computer room during that time.
Google Analytics and Bibliocommons:
As promised at the last PAS meeting we now provide a method to analyze your BiblioCommons data being saved by Google. Since April 2011 Google has saved up roughly 10,000,000 Bibliocommons URLs for our libraries (10 million system-wide), which we have downloaded and analyzed.
" ViewPoints for Bibliocommons and Google Analytics " is a new link on the CCS Reports Web Page in the report group "Online Catalog Statistics". This link takes you to the tool that reveals some of the results, in report form. Within the tool the toolbar button "Reports" will show you those reports that are currently available. The tool has been branded and contains results for just your library as well as system-wide results.
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
Last week, on Thursday, April 19th, CCS sent a group of bibliographic records to Marcive for authorities processing – 8721 bibliographic records were sent, and Marcive returned 2394 updated ones, as well as 4178 new authority records. Both the bibliographic records and the new authority records have been loaded into our system.
This week, CCS loaded two more files that were obtained from Marcive. One contained 2023 updated authority records and the other contained 410 new authority records. The updated authority records contain heading changes, new death dates, and other information that will keep our database as up to date as possible. The 410 were authority records that were needed in our database, but were not available before this time.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
NO CCS NEWS NEXT WEEK:
Due to staff absences (per the first news item above), there will be no issue of this bulletin next week.
CCS MEETINGS THE NEXT TWO WEEKS:
Wed., 5/9, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Fri., 5/11, 9:30, Prospect Heights: Circulation
(Note: the May 2 Catalogers workshop has been canceled!!)
This isn’t a meeting, but remember, Wed., 5/9 is Highland Park’s Go Live Day!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
CCS News
APRIL 20, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
nslsilus.org - We have had notification from RAILS that the domain nslsilus.org will be retired. We have been in touch with the libraries that we are aware of that still use the domain (Park Ridge and Wilmette). The domain will no longer work as of June 1, 2012. RAILS accidentally turned it off earlier this week for a few days, and while this did inconvenience patrons, it also gave us an opportunity to be sure we knew how it was being used.
Director’s Station – Word has gone out to the Director’s Station list that you can now print to PDF using the PRINT button. To do so use the domain name http://directorsstation.ccs.nsls.lib.il.us/directorsstation/ instead of our IP address to access the Director’s Station.
WELCOME to new Winnetka-Northfield Director Tena Wilson, who starts on Monday, April 23.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 4/24, 9:30, Cary: Unique Management meeting
Wed., 4/25, 2 PM, Webinar: Sirsidynix Social Library (you must be registered!)
Thur., 4/26, 2 PM, Webinar: Sirsidynix Social Library (you must be registered!)
APRIL 20, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
nslsilus.org - We have had notification from RAILS that the domain nslsilus.org will be retired. We have been in touch with the libraries that we are aware of that still use the domain (Park Ridge and Wilmette). The domain will no longer work as of June 1, 2012. RAILS accidentally turned it off earlier this week for a few days, and while this did inconvenience patrons, it also gave us an opportunity to be sure we knew how it was being used.
Director’s Station – Word has gone out to the Director’s Station list that you can now print to PDF using the PRINT button. To do so use the domain name http://directorsstation.ccs.nsls.lib.il.us/directorsstation/ instead of our IP address to access the Director’s Station.
WELCOME to new Winnetka-Northfield Director Tena Wilson, who starts on Monday, April 23.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 4/24, 9:30, Cary: Unique Management meeting
Wed., 4/25, 2 PM, Webinar: Sirsidynix Social Library (you must be registered!)
Thur., 4/26, 2 PM, Webinar: Sirsidynix Social Library (you must be registered!)
Thursday, April 12, 2012
CCS News
APRIL 13, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Report As Discussed At April 12 ILL Meeting:
There's a new report titled
“Work Phone B4 Phone " that runs daily and is available from the CCS Reports Web Page. It lists ALL patrons whose WORKPHONE field appears before their 'PHONE field' within their patron record.
When the WORKPHONE field appears before the PHONE field, the WORKPHONE field content will display/print ( in Workflows ) instead of the PHONE field content when printing 'Hold Slips'. If the patron prefers to be notified via the WORKPHONE, then no change is necessary. If the patron prefers to be notified via the PHONE field, you can edit the record to place the PHONE field first. On the address tab change the field name WORKPHONE to PHONE and the field name PHONE to WORKPHONE. You'll have to move/interchange the phone numbers as well. Then click Modify User .
THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK:
The April 1 issue of Library Journal has the annual article on the library automation marketplace, plus a short supplement with user satisfaction ratings (pp. 30-45). These are well worth a few minutes, and food for thought.
WELCOME to Karen Danczak Lyons, who starts as Director at Evanston on Monday, April 16!
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 4/18, CCS, 9:30: SCRAP
APRIL 13, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Report As Discussed At April 12 ILL Meeting:
There's a new report titled
“Work Phone B4 Phone " that runs daily and is available from the CCS Reports Web Page. It lists ALL patrons whose WORKPHONE field appears before their 'PHONE field' within their patron record.
When the WORKPHONE field appears before the PHONE field, the WORKPHONE field content will display/print ( in Workflows ) instead of the PHONE field content when printing 'Hold Slips'. If the patron prefers to be notified via the WORKPHONE, then no change is necessary. If the patron prefers to be notified via the PHONE field, you can edit the record to place the PHONE field first. On the address tab change the field name WORKPHONE to PHONE and the field name PHONE to WORKPHONE. You'll have to move/interchange the phone numbers as well. Then click Modify User .
THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK:
The April 1 issue of Library Journal has the annual article on the library automation marketplace, plus a short supplement with user satisfaction ratings (pp. 30-45). These are well worth a few minutes, and food for thought.
WELCOME to Karen Danczak Lyons, who starts as Director at Evanston on Monday, April 16!
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 4/18, CCS, 9:30: SCRAP
Friday, April 6, 2012
CCS News
APRIL 6, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Index Rebuild CANCELLED – after some investigation and hearing back from Roger Anderson (who has returned from vacation), we decided that an index rebuild was not necessary this year. The systems will all operate normally while we are closed on April 8.
BookMyne – During the last week we upgraded web services that run BookMyne to Release 3.2. This should improve performance with Android devices.
April 8 – The Computer Room will be closed on April 8. All services are scheduled to run normally.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL FROM THE CCS STAFF!
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 4/11, CCS, 10:00: Executive Committee
Wed., 4/11, CCS, 1:30: By-Laws & Policy Committee
Thur., 4/12, 9:30, Cary: ILL
APRIL 6, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Index Rebuild CANCELLED – after some investigation and hearing back from Roger Anderson (who has returned from vacation), we decided that an index rebuild was not necessary this year. The systems will all operate normally while we are closed on April 8.
BookMyne – During the last week we upgraded web services that run BookMyne to Release 3.2. This should improve performance with Android devices.
April 8 – The Computer Room will be closed on April 8. All services are scheduled to run normally.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL FROM THE CCS STAFF!
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 4/11, CCS, 10:00: Executive Committee
Wed., 4/11, CCS, 1:30: By-Laws & Policy Committee
Thur., 4/12, 9:30, Cary: ILL
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