CCS News
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Network Switch - Monday morning we will be installing a new network switch to expand our current infrastructure. No disturbance to the network is expected and libraries will not be affected.
Client downloads - As we continue our investigations into the problem with downloading upgraded Workflows clients, we have asked all libraries to respond with recollections from the day in question. It is very important that each library responds to Frank’s inquiry posted to the Maintenance Coordinators list. Lately we discovered that not all libraries experienced difficulties and so we need to compare data from libraries to identify patterns.
LIBRARY CLOSING:
Wilmette will be closed all day on Friday, February 24.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
CCS News
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Switch upgrade- During the month of February we will be installing a new network switch to expand capabilities here are CCS. This will only affect the workstations here at CCS HQ and will have no impact on the outside network.
Packet shaper reconfiguration – Also during the next few weeks we will be making adjustments in our packet shaping appliance to assist with the bandwidth bottlenecks experienced during client download time. Stay tuned for progress reports.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 2/15, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Switch upgrade- During the month of February we will be installing a new network switch to expand capabilities here are CCS. This will only affect the workstations here at CCS HQ and will have no impact on the outside network.
Packet shaper reconfiguration – Also during the next few weeks we will be making adjustments in our packet shaping appliance to assist with the bandwidth bottlenecks experienced during client download time. Stay tuned for progress reports.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 2/15, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
Thursday, February 2, 2012
CCS News
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Missing Bibliographic Citations in BiblioCommons Fixed – a few months ago we had reports of records that were clearly owned by your library and were not showing up in a search scoped to your library. They only showed when viewing All Libraries. We have had no reports of this occurrence for several months now. It appears that recent releases have fixed this problem. If you are still detecting that this problem is occurring please let us know via the Help Desk right away. Hearing of no further occurrences, we will be closing incidents related to this matter in the coming week.
WELCOME: CCS is pleased to welcome Lincolnwood’s new Director Su Bochenski as of February 6.
LIBRARY CLOSING:
Lake Villa will be closed all day on Friday, February 10.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 2/8, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 2/9, 9:30, Northbrook: ILL
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Missing Bibliographic Citations in BiblioCommons Fixed – a few months ago we had reports of records that were clearly owned by your library and were not showing up in a search scoped to your library. They only showed when viewing All Libraries. We have had no reports of this occurrence for several months now. It appears that recent releases have fixed this problem. If you are still detecting that this problem is occurring please let us know via the Help Desk right away. Hearing of no further occurrences, we will be closing incidents related to this matter in the coming week.
WELCOME: CCS is pleased to welcome Lincolnwood’s new Director Su Bochenski as of February 6.
LIBRARY CLOSING:
Lake Villa will be closed all day on Friday, February 10.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 2/8, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 2/9, 9:30, Northbrook: ILL
Thursday, January 26, 2012
CCS News
JANUARY 27, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Apps – We have been fielding many questions about apps to access the online catalog. That is great! As you consider these products do be in touch with us in the computer room and let us know what you are thinking about. We are happy to answer questions and be involved in any vendor discussions.
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
Last week, CCS loaded 2 files that were obtained from Marcive. One file contained 1452 updated authority records and the other file contained 459 authority records that were needed, but not available until now.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
HIGHLAND PARK UPDATE:
CCS, Sirsidynix, Highland Park and staff from our libraries are working to bring Highland Park P.L. aboard. They will do a data load onto our Test Server at the end of February. We will load their data onto the Production Server the first week in May and they will go live on Wednesday, May 9. We are still working out the particulars; more to follow.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 2/1, 9:30, Crystal Lake: Catalogers
Wed., 2/1, 10:00, Prospect Heights: Governing Board (Annual and regular meetings)
JANUARY 27, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Apps – We have been fielding many questions about apps to access the online catalog. That is great! As you consider these products do be in touch with us in the computer room and let us know what you are thinking about. We are happy to answer questions and be involved in any vendor discussions.
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
Last week, CCS loaded 2 files that were obtained from Marcive. One file contained 1452 updated authority records and the other file contained 459 authority records that were needed, but not available until now.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
HIGHLAND PARK UPDATE:
CCS, Sirsidynix, Highland Park and staff from our libraries are working to bring Highland Park P.L. aboard. They will do a data load onto our Test Server at the end of February. We will load their data onto the Production Server the first week in May and they will go live on Wednesday, May 9. We are still working out the particulars; more to follow.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 2/1, 9:30, Crystal Lake: Catalogers
Wed., 2/1, 10:00, Prospect Heights: Governing Board (Annual and regular meetings)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
CCS News
JANUARY 20, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BC and Spanish Interface – BiblioCommons has started working on the changes necessary to accommodate the addition of Spanish, beginning with the logos. They estimate they will be done by the end of next week.
Network Testing – we continue our network testing but will be working with a few libraries on an individual basis in our next round of tests. These tests should not affect the greater CCS population. If we plan any more systemwide outages early in the morning, we will be sure to tell you in sufficient time
Highland Park – You will see that we have welcomed Highland Park by the appearance of “HPLIBRARY” in Workflows.
Trouble with Fines on Wednesday – Thank you for your early reports. The problem was related to the addition of Highland Park to our policy tables by Sirsidynix. Due to quick action on everyone’s part the problem was quickly identified and corrected.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Thur., 1/26, 9:00, Fremont: SILLRAP
JANUARY 20, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BC and Spanish Interface – BiblioCommons has started working on the changes necessary to accommodate the addition of Spanish, beginning with the logos. They estimate they will be done by the end of next week.
Network Testing – we continue our network testing but will be working with a few libraries on an individual basis in our next round of tests. These tests should not affect the greater CCS population. If we plan any more systemwide outages early in the morning, we will be sure to tell you in sufficient time
Highland Park – You will see that we have welcomed Highland Park by the appearance of “HPLIBRARY” in Workflows.
Trouble with Fines on Wednesday – Thank you for your early reports. The problem was related to the addition of Highland Park to our policy tables by Sirsidynix. Due to quick action on everyone’s part the problem was quickly identified and corrected.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Thur., 1/26, 9:00, Fremont: SILLRAP
Thursday, January 12, 2012
CCS News
JANUARY 13, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Sunday, Jan 15 – we will interrupt the system (Workflows, iBistro, SIP, SVA etc.) at 9 am for about 5 minutes to perform some maintenance on our logs. BiblioCommons will be limited to searching only during the short duration of the outage.
MEMBERSHIP EVALUATION SURVEY:
We thank the 83 respondents to our membership evaluation survey, representing a very good cross-section of roles in our libraries, and 20 more responses than our 2007 survey. The results and analysis are in the hands of the Long Range Planning Committee for review, and will be distributed to the Governing Board for the Feb. 1 meeting and to the rest of the CCS community. No bombshells, but very helpful as always.
WEATHER CLOSINGS INFORMATION REMINDER:
This is just a reminder that when we cancel a meeting or close the office due to inclement weather, we will send out e-mail; update the online meeting calendar; include the information in the answering messages of Richard Shurman (x201), Bonnie Owens (x200) and the Computer Room (847-342-5303); and post it at www.emergencyclosings.com, which also means it will scroll across your TV screen. If you’re not sure, just call the office and whoever is on our end should know the status.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 1/18, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
Thur., 1/19, 9:30, Cary: PAS
Fri., 1/20, noon, Jameson’s: Technical Group Chairs lunch
JANUARY 13, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Sunday, Jan 15 – we will interrupt the system (Workflows, iBistro, SIP, SVA etc.) at 9 am for about 5 minutes to perform some maintenance on our logs. BiblioCommons will be limited to searching only during the short duration of the outage.
MEMBERSHIP EVALUATION SURVEY:
We thank the 83 respondents to our membership evaluation survey, representing a very good cross-section of roles in our libraries, and 20 more responses than our 2007 survey. The results and analysis are in the hands of the Long Range Planning Committee for review, and will be distributed to the Governing Board for the Feb. 1 meeting and to the rest of the CCS community. No bombshells, but very helpful as always.
WEATHER CLOSINGS INFORMATION REMINDER:
This is just a reminder that when we cancel a meeting or close the office due to inclement weather, we will send out e-mail; update the online meeting calendar; include the information in the answering messages of Richard Shurman (x201), Bonnie Owens (x200) and the Computer Room (847-342-5303); and post it at www.emergencyclosings.com, which also means it will scroll across your TV screen. If you’re not sure, just call the office and whoever is on our end should know the status.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 1/18, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
Thur., 1/19, 9:30, Cary: PAS
Fri., 1/20, noon, Jameson’s: Technical Group Chairs lunch
Thursday, January 5, 2012
CCS News
JANUARY 6, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Spanish interface – the configuration questionnaire has gone out to all libraries planning to participate in the Spanish interface for BiblioCommons. These configuration options should be returned by the end of the day on Friday Jan 6 via the link sent in the original email.
Telephone cutover – the CCS telephones will be temporarily interrupted the morning of Tuesday January 10 for maintenance. Please rely on email to contact us on Tuesday morning. The work should be complete by 10am.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 1/11, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 1/12, 9:30, CCS: Continuing Education Steering Committee
Fri., 1/13, 9:30, McHenry: Circulation
JANUARY 6, 2012
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Spanish interface – the configuration questionnaire has gone out to all libraries planning to participate in the Spanish interface for BiblioCommons. These configuration options should be returned by the end of the day on Friday Jan 6 via the link sent in the original email.
Telephone cutover – the CCS telephones will be temporarily interrupted the morning of Tuesday January 10 for maintenance. Please rely on email to contact us on Tuesday morning. The work should be complete by 10am.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 1/11, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 1/12, 9:30, CCS: Continuing Education Steering Committee
Fri., 1/13, 9:30, McHenry: Circulation
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