CCS News
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Novelist Select - Novelist has been working on a solution for the problem we were experiencing with kept list and sign-on being lost. The progress is faster than we anticipated. On the TEST SERVER we are turning on new code which retains the kept list and keeps user sign-on information for the session. It all occurs in one window. We are planning to turn it on Tuesday, November 17 unless we find out something highly problematic.
Syndetics Plus Content – we are also testing additional content sent from Bowker/Syndetics on the test iBistro server.
Holiday Dates – the Computer Room will be staffed until 9pm the evening before Thanksgiving.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 11/18, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
Thur., 11/19, 9:30, NSLS: PAS
Thur., 11/19, 9:30, CCS: Acquisitions
Discussion Group
Thursday, November 5, 2009
CCS News
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
NOVELISTSELECT – we have had an interesting week with a near launch of Novelist Select and then deciding to get it back into testing so that you all can see how it interacts with iBistro. As of this writing, libraries have been exploring Novelist Select on the test server and sharing comments. Stay tuned to progress reports on the Novelist Select offering.
DAYS WHEN ITEMS ARE NOT DUE – also known as: CLOSED DATES – This list governs the assignment of due dates in the system as well as the pick list. If a library does not want items to become due, then the date must appear in the table. Libraries have different ways of handling the days when they are partially closed. The table of dates has been entered for most libraries through Jan 2011 as of this time. PLEASE CHECK your dates on the web for any inadvertent errors. Modifications to the date tables after our initial input should be requested through the Wonder Desk.
COMPUTER ROOM STAFFING – Thank you for sharing your information on early closings during holiday time. The Computer Room staff will be available until 9pm the evening before Thanksgiving to accommodate libraries open until that time. Since we polled the libraries, here are the closing times.
Wed, Nov. 25 – 1:00 pm LNK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 3:00 pm PHK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 5:00 pm ALK, CPQ, DUK, EAK, GCK, HUK, LFK, LVK, MJK, MUK, NIK, WLK, WBK, WNK, ZIK, CLK, EVK, GVK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 6:00 pm NBK,PRK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 8:00 pm RLK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 9:00 pm DPK
ALL LIBRARIES CLOSED THANKSGIVING DAY
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
CCS sent 5314 bibliographic records to Marcive on Wednesday, Nov. 4th for Overnight Authorities Processing. The records have been processed and were reloaded into our system. Of the 5314 bibliographic records, Marcive returned 1988 updated bibliographic records. Marcive also sent us 2684 new authority records.
-- Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 11/11, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 11/12, 10:00, Dundee: Sirsi Enterprise 3.0 demo
Thur., 11/12, 1:30, Dundee: OPAC Review Task Force
Fri., 11/13, 9:30, NSLS: Circulation
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
NOVELISTSELECT – we have had an interesting week with a near launch of Novelist Select and then deciding to get it back into testing so that you all can see how it interacts with iBistro. As of this writing, libraries have been exploring Novelist Select on the test server and sharing comments. Stay tuned to progress reports on the Novelist Select offering.
DAYS WHEN ITEMS ARE NOT DUE – also known as: CLOSED DATES – This list governs the assignment of due dates in the system as well as the pick list. If a library does not want items to become due, then the date must appear in the table. Libraries have different ways of handling the days when they are partially closed. The table of dates has been entered for most libraries through Jan 2011 as of this time. PLEASE CHECK your dates on the web for any inadvertent errors. Modifications to the date tables after our initial input should be requested through the Wonder Desk.
COMPUTER ROOM STAFFING – Thank you for sharing your information on early closings during holiday time. The Computer Room staff will be available until 9pm the evening before Thanksgiving to accommodate libraries open until that time. Since we polled the libraries, here are the closing times.
Wed, Nov. 25 – 1:00 pm LNK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 3:00 pm PHK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 5:00 pm ALK, CPQ, DUK, EAK, GCK, HUK, LFK, LVK, MJK, MUK, NIK, WLK, WBK, WNK, ZIK, CLK, EVK, GVK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 6:00 pm NBK,PRK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 8:00 pm RLK
Wed, Nov. 25 – 9:00 pm DPK
ALL LIBRARIES CLOSED THANKSGIVING DAY
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
CCS sent 5314 bibliographic records to Marcive on Wednesday, Nov. 4th for Overnight Authorities Processing. The records have been processed and were reloaded into our system. Of the 5314 bibliographic records, Marcive returned 1988 updated bibliographic records. Marcive also sent us 2684 new authority records.
-- Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 11/11, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 11/12, 10:00, Dundee: Sirsi Enterprise 3.0 demo
Thur., 11/12, 1:30, Dundee: OPAC Review Task Force
Fri., 11/13, 9:30, NSLS: Circulation
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
CCS News
OCTOBER 30, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Novelist Select – stay tuned for announcements regarding implementation of Novelist Select. Our target is to have this live on November 2 for the libraries to access through iBistro. As of this writing (Wednesday morning) we have been doing some testing and it is working well on Firefox, but we are working through a few glitches with Internet Explorer. By the time you read this, we hope to have all the glitches ironed out.
Days Items Are Not Due – this is usually called the table of “closed dates”. These have been updated now for most of the libraries through 2010. For changes to your original list, (such as an added in-service day) please submit these using the Wonderdesk – do not send updates directly to Linda. ALSO, A REMINDER: PLEASE SUBMIT THESE DATES BEFORE THEY AFFECT YOUR DUE DATES.
Epay/Sirsi Integration – there are two more libraries that we will be adding to ePay/Sirsi integration soon. These are Huntley and Des Plaines.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM THE CCS STAFF!
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Fri., 11/6, 9:30, Prospect Heights: Director’s Station group
OCTOBER 30, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Novelist Select – stay tuned for announcements regarding implementation of Novelist Select. Our target is to have this live on November 2 for the libraries to access through iBistro. As of this writing (Wednesday morning) we have been doing some testing and it is working well on Firefox, but we are working through a few glitches with Internet Explorer. By the time you read this, we hope to have all the glitches ironed out.
Days Items Are Not Due – this is usually called the table of “closed dates”. These have been updated now for most of the libraries through 2010. For changes to your original list, (such as an added in-service day) please submit these using the Wonderdesk – do not send updates directly to Linda. ALSO, A REMINDER: PLEASE SUBMIT THESE DATES BEFORE THEY AFFECT YOUR DUE DATES.
Epay/Sirsi Integration – there are two more libraries that we will be adding to ePay/Sirsi integration soon. These are Huntley and Des Plaines.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM THE CCS STAFF!
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Fri., 11/6, 9:30, Prospect Heights: Director’s Station group
Thursday, October 22, 2009
OCTOBER 23, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
EPAY – The ability for patrons to pay fines using the EPAY system has been quite successful. We now have 8 libraries who are using the EPAY feature with iBistro.
New Report, Cumulative Patron Stats CAT2 – There is a new monthly Excel report that you will see in the web reports. It was first run in October and includes statistics from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2008. It is called Cumulative Patron Stats CAT2 and was designed to help gather RBP information for the IPLAR reports.
Subject heading changes and other Authorities News - The Library of Congress is once again flipping headings so that they are in direct order - we've had Buddhist, Hindu, and some Christian headings changed. Now the newest batch of changes involve Jewish headings. So subject headings like, Art, Jewish" and "Marriage customs and rites, Jewish" have been changed to "Jewish art" and "Jewish marriage customs and rites".
Also the subject headings for "Domestics" and "Women domestics" have been changed to "Household employees" and "Women household employees".
By the time you read this CCS News, all affected bibliographic records have been changed.
Also this week, MARCIVE sent CCS 1434 updated authority records and 414 new authority records that were not available before.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None!
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
EPAY – The ability for patrons to pay fines using the EPAY system has been quite successful. We now have 8 libraries who are using the EPAY feature with iBistro.
New Report, Cumulative Patron Stats CAT2 – There is a new monthly Excel report that you will see in the web reports. It was first run in October and includes statistics from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2008. It is called Cumulative Patron Stats CAT2 and was designed to help gather RBP information for the IPLAR reports.
Subject heading changes and other Authorities News - The Library of Congress is once again flipping headings so that they are in direct order - we've had Buddhist, Hindu, and some Christian headings changed. Now the newest batch of changes involve Jewish headings. So subject headings like, Art, Jewish" and "Marriage customs and rites, Jewish" have been changed to "Jewish art" and "Jewish marriage customs and rites".
Also the subject headings for "Domestics" and "Women domestics" have been changed to "Household employees" and "Women household employees".
By the time you read this CCS News, all affected bibliographic records have been changed.
Also this week, MARCIVE sent CCS 1434 updated authority records and 414 new authority records that were not available before.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
CCS NEWS
OCTOBER 16, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM
Hold Wrappers – we are closing all the problems with hold wrappers. Most have been resolved and there are a few outstanding but explainable, or requiring future enhancements.
NoveList Select – This is repeated from last week. ALL libraries WILL BE INCLUDED in the new NoveList Select offering. The computer room is working out all the details with the Novelist/EBSCO team.
Closed dates for 2010- These are coming in and will be input soon as soon as we can clear out the old dates for 2008.
INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Joanne will be asking libraries to update the Interlibrary Loan Policies of CCS Libraries from our web site.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed.,10/21,9:30 AM,CCS: SCRAP
OCTOBER 16, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM
Hold Wrappers – we are closing all the problems with hold wrappers. Most have been resolved and there are a few outstanding but explainable, or requiring future enhancements.
NoveList Select – This is repeated from last week. ALL libraries WILL BE INCLUDED in the new NoveList Select offering. The computer room is working out all the details with the Novelist/EBSCO team.
Closed dates for 2010- These are coming in and will be input soon as soon as we can clear out the old dates for 2008.
INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Joanne will be asking libraries to update the Interlibrary Loan Policies of CCS Libraries from our web site.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed.,10/21,9:30 AM,CCS: SCRAP
Thursday, October 8, 2009
CCS News
OCTOBER 9, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
EPAY – Two more libraries have been added to the list using EPAY/Sirsi integration. These are Dundee and Niles.
NoveList Select – All libraries will be included in the new NoveList Select offering. The computer room is actively working with Ebsco/Novelist to get this set up for you. The target date is November 1.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 10/13, 1:00, CCS: OPAC Review Task Force
Wed., 10/14, 9:30, NSLS: Catalogers
Wed., 10/14, 10:00, CCS: Executive Comm.
Thur., Oct. 15, 9:30, NSLS: ILL
OCTOBER 9, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
EPAY – Two more libraries have been added to the list using EPAY/Sirsi integration. These are Dundee and Niles.
NoveList Select – All libraries will be included in the new NoveList Select offering. The computer room is actively working with Ebsco/Novelist to get this set up for you. The target date is November 1.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 10/13, 1:00, CCS: OPAC Review Task Force
Wed., 10/14, 9:30, NSLS: Catalogers
Wed., 10/14, 10:00, CCS: Executive Comm.
Thur., Oct. 15, 9:30, NSLS: ILL
Thursday, October 1, 2009
CCS News
OCTOBER 2, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Help Desk – Thank you for using the Wonderdesk Help Desk for logging incidents. This is the very best way we have for the CCS team to collaborate to answer your questions, track progress and deal with issues.
EPAY is fixed – as you might have noted from the S-help list – ePAY is being worked on. We have discovered and fixed two problems that occur ONLY when the patron partially pays off a fine through WORKFLOWS. Sirsi was quick to respond and ePAY appears to be working now as of this writing. This means we will be able to continue our implementation of ePAY for libraries desiring this feature.
LIBRARY CLOSING:
Winnetka-Northfield will be closed Friday, October 2, for a Staff Day.
SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES:
LC is changing all the Hindu and some Christian subject headings so that they are in direct order (like what they did earlier this year with the Buddhists). So for headings like “Mythology, Hindu” ,“Gods, Hindu”, “Heresies, Christian”, and “Stewardship, Christian”, use the term “Hindu mythology”, “Hindu gods”, “Christian heresies”, and “Christian stewardship”.
Another important subject heading change is from “Women in politics” to “Women – Political activity”.
And for all those “Ice road trucker” fans, the subject heading of “Roads, Ice” has been changed to “Ice crossings”.
For all these headings and other similar terms, all affected bibliographic records have been changed in our database.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
(Editor’s Note: We join Virginia in appreciating the job security the Library Of Congress is providing for her.)
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None, due mostly to ILA. Please take a look at Sirsi’s Enterprise 3.0 if you go, and enjoy!)
OCTOBER 2, 2009
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Help Desk – Thank you for using the Wonderdesk Help Desk for logging incidents. This is the very best way we have for the CCS team to collaborate to answer your questions, track progress and deal with issues.
EPAY is fixed – as you might have noted from the S-help list – ePAY is being worked on. We have discovered and fixed two problems that occur ONLY when the patron partially pays off a fine through WORKFLOWS. Sirsi was quick to respond and ePAY appears to be working now as of this writing. This means we will be able to continue our implementation of ePAY for libraries desiring this feature.
LIBRARY CLOSING:
Winnetka-Northfield will be closed Friday, October 2, for a Staff Day.
SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES:
LC is changing all the Hindu and some Christian subject headings so that they are in direct order (like what they did earlier this year with the Buddhists). So for headings like “Mythology, Hindu” ,“Gods, Hindu”, “Heresies, Christian”, and “Stewardship, Christian”, use the term “Hindu mythology”, “Hindu gods”, “Christian heresies”, and “Christian stewardship”.
Another important subject heading change is from “Women in politics” to “Women – Political activity”.
And for all those “Ice road trucker” fans, the subject heading of “Roads, Ice” has been changed to “Ice crossings”.
For all these headings and other similar terms, all affected bibliographic records have been changed in our database.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
(Editor’s Note: We join Virginia in appreciating the job security the Library Of Congress is providing for her.)
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None, due mostly to ILA. Please take a look at Sirsi’s Enterprise 3.0 if you go, and enjoy!)
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