CCS News
JULY 27, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Wireless and Workflows – We have had some inquiries about (1) outreach and Workflows and (2) Workflows using wireless technology. If you contemplate moving to either of these scenarios in the future – please see the link under ““4. WorkFlows in a Wireless Environment policy.” It is in the FAQs on the Members Only page of the CCS Web site. The direct link is
http://www.ccslib.org/attachments/File/LibraryStaff/WrkFlwsinWrlessEnvmt.pdf
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
There is lots of subject heading news to report on. For those that have major legal collections, the subject heading of “Business law” was combined with the subject heading of “Commercial law”. All affected bibs. have changed. The other major changes does not affect the headings themselves, but their see-also references. This affects “legendary character” headings like “Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character)” and “Hua, Mulan (Legendary character)”. Their new see-also references include the term “legends” and in Paul’s case, his see-also reference is now “Legends – United States” (it used to be “Tales”).
This week, I also loaded two more files into the CCS system that were obtained from Marcive. One contained 2255 updated authority records and the other contained 344 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 344 (or “the new matches”) were authority records that were needed in our database, but were not available before this time.
Virginia Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Thur., 8/2, noon, Jameson’s: Technical Group Chairs Lunch
Fri., 8/3, 9:30, CCS: Continuing Education Steering Committee
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
CCS News July 20, 2012
CCS News
JULY 20, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
New Patron Field:A new field called ‘SECURITY’ is being added to the patron ‘Extended Information’ tab. It is a free form text field, not governed by a policy-driven list of values. It is intended to contain a security question and answer which could be used when the patron forgets his/her card. At this time the contents of this field will not be visible in, or used by, any patron-facing interface. This field is visible to the staff clients only. Therefore entering the question and answer is the responsibility of the staff. Your use of this field is strictly optional. It will be both visible and editable in the User Registration wizard and the Modify User wizard and visible in the Display User wizard as well. This field will be available as of Tuesday 7/24. The suggested format of the field is Q:{followed by the question} A:{followed by the answer}
NEW LINK TO STATEWIDE BAR CODE PREFIX LIST:
The statewide list of libraries’ automated bar code prefixes, long maintained by CCS, has been transferred over to the L2 web site. The new URL is:
http://www.librarylearning.info/libraries/advanced_search_resources.aspx.
This is in transition, so now all this does is allow the user to input a bar code prefix and search for the associated library. We expect that it will soon become less cryptic.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 7/25, 10:00, Zion-Benton: Governing Board
JULY 20, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
New Patron Field:A new field called ‘SECURITY’ is being added to the patron ‘Extended Information’ tab. It is a free form text field, not governed by a policy-driven list of values. It is intended to contain a security question and answer which could be used when the patron forgets his/her card. At this time the contents of this field will not be visible in, or used by, any patron-facing interface. This field is visible to the staff clients only. Therefore entering the question and answer is the responsibility of the staff. Your use of this field is strictly optional. It will be both visible and editable in the User Registration wizard and the Modify User wizard and visible in the Display User wizard as well. This field will be available as of Tuesday 7/24. The suggested format of the field is Q:{followed by the question} A:{followed by the answer}
NEW LINK TO STATEWIDE BAR CODE PREFIX LIST:
The statewide list of libraries’ automated bar code prefixes, long maintained by CCS, has been transferred over to the L2 web site. The new URL is:
http://www.librarylearning.info/libraries/advanced_search_resources.aspx.
This is in transition, so now all this does is allow the user to input a bar code prefix and search for the associated library. We expect that it will soon become less cryptic.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 7/25, 10:00, Zion-Benton: Governing Board
Thursday, July 12, 2012
CCS News July 13, 2012
CCS News
JULY 13, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Test server – During the summer months when temperatures exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit, we take our test server down to conserve heat. During the next several weeks we will be loading the new Symphony release 3.4.1 on the test server as well so we will keep you posted on the progress and the availability of the machine should temperatures rise.
Index – We had a few problems with our bibliographic index during the last few weeks. For this reason we will be rebuilding the keyword index on Sunday morning July 15. Workflows will be down between 6 and 11am so that we can rebuild the index. BiblioCommons will be available during that time, but functions will be limited while Workflows is down. SVA will also be down while indexes are being rebuilt.
WHEN PAYING YOUR LIBRARY'S CCS BILLS:
Please include a copy of your invoice with the check. Thanks!
VENDOR PRESENTATION DATES AND LOCATIONS FINALIZED: Here are the dates and places for our three scheduled presentations from ILS vendors. Each presentation will cover the same ground each day; the second day is a repeat session to give attendees some schedule flexibility. More information will follow.
Thur.-Fri., Sept. 13-14: Innovative Interfaces
(Sierra), Northbrook (Auditorium)
Wed.-Thur., Sept. 19-20: Sirsidynix (Symphony), Des Plaines
Thur.-Fri., Sept. 27-28: Polaris, Glenview
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Thur., 7/19, 9:30, Wilmette: PAS
Fri., 7/20, 9:30, Cary: Circulation
JULY 13, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Test server – During the summer months when temperatures exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit, we take our test server down to conserve heat. During the next several weeks we will be loading the new Symphony release 3.4.1 on the test server as well so we will keep you posted on the progress and the availability of the machine should temperatures rise.
Index – We had a few problems with our bibliographic index during the last few weeks. For this reason we will be rebuilding the keyword index on Sunday morning July 15. Workflows will be down between 6 and 11am so that we can rebuild the index. BiblioCommons will be available during that time, but functions will be limited while Workflows is down. SVA will also be down while indexes are being rebuilt.
WHEN PAYING YOUR LIBRARY'S CCS BILLS:
Please include a copy of your invoice with the check. Thanks!
VENDOR PRESENTATION DATES AND LOCATIONS FINALIZED: Here are the dates and places for our three scheduled presentations from ILS vendors. Each presentation will cover the same ground each day; the second day is a repeat session to give attendees some schedule flexibility. More information will follow.
Thur.-Fri., Sept. 13-14: Innovative Interfaces
(Sierra), Northbrook (Auditorium)
Wed.-Thur., Sept. 19-20: Sirsidynix (Symphony), Des Plaines
Thur.-Fri., Sept. 27-28: Polaris, Glenview
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Thur., 7/19, 9:30, Wilmette: PAS
Fri., 7/20, 9:30, Cary: Circulation
Thursday, July 5, 2012
CCS News July 6, 2012
CCS News
JULY 6, 2012
A COUPLE REMINDERS:
We have very little to share this week, but here are a couple reminders:
*Please sign and return your library’s OCLC/ILLINET contracts.
*We will be preparing soon for the trials of Sirsi’s Social Library (Facebook) and BookMyne Plus modules to commence August 1.
FILE SIZES:
As of July 1, the CCS database contained:
639,730 patron records
1,125,691 MARC records (post-de-dupe)
5,460,502 item records
1,050,044 holds
2,351,035 bills
762,109 authority records
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 7/11, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
JULY 6, 2012
A COUPLE REMINDERS:
We have very little to share this week, but here are a couple reminders:
*Please sign and return your library’s OCLC/ILLINET contracts.
*We will be preparing soon for the trials of Sirsi’s Social Library (Facebook) and BookMyne Plus modules to commence August 1.
FILE SIZES:
As of July 1, the CCS database contained:
639,730 patron records
1,125,691 MARC records (post-de-dupe)
5,460,502 item records
1,050,044 holds
2,351,035 bills
762,109 authority records
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 7/11, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
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