CCS News
DECEMBER 16, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Holiday Staffing – The computer room will have staff available when libraries are open. We will close at 1pm on December 24 to begin backups and we will be closed December 25.
We will close at 6pm on Jan 31 to start backups and we will be closed New Years Day.
CCS NEWS THE NEXT TWO WEEKS:
We will publish a bulletin next week, but not during the last week of the year.
CCS MEETING NEXT WEEK:
Tues., 12/20, 9:30, Glenview: Maintenance Coordinators
Wed., 12/21, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
Thursday, December 8, 2011
CCS News
DECEMBER 9, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BiblioCommons bugs – There are several situations occurring in BiblioCommons that we are following closely. (1) It has been reported that patrons might be able to cancel or suspend holds that are already available. We have conducted many tests and are unable to replicate this problem. (2) We have not heard of any more occurrences of titles that are not able to be searched in the home library, but come up in the “all library”. (3) We have not heard of new problems with lag times existing more that 1-2 hours for availability status, in the last 2-3 weeks. If you are still experiencing any of these situations in the coming weeks please open a WonderDesk ticket. BiblioCommons has made some fixes of late – but not specifically to fix these problems. Our good fortune might be a fallout from other improvements.
BiblioCommons Staff Picks – a handy guide by Northbrook (thanks!) for creating staff picks lists has been posted on our web site under the BiblioCommons section.
UPDATE ON REPAIRS OF PATRONS WITH COLLECTION STATUS:
On Monday 12/5 Sirsi completed the last step in correcting those patrons whose status was incorrectly set to COLLECTION. Libraries that use Unique Management should know that beginning Tuesday 12/6, the Daily Collection UPDATE report and the Weekly COLLECTION Sync report contain accurate data.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES:
Some important Library of Congress subject headings changed earlier this week.
The heading “Occult fiction” was changed to “Paranormal fiction”. This change only affected records that were coded as subject headings (650’s). Genre headings (or 655’s) with the same term of “Occult fiction” did not change. References are in place to assist catalog users.
“Occult fiction, American”, “Occult fiction, Australian”, and “Occult fiction, English” were also changed to “Paranormal fiction, American”, “Paranormal fiction, Australian”, and “Paranormal fiction, English.”
Besides those 4 changes, “Shipwreck survival in literature” was finally broken apart, so there’s a new heading for “Airplance crash survival in literature”.
Other subject headings include: “Acoli (African people)” was changed to “Acholi (African people”; “Gbaya (African people)” to “Gbaya (Ubangi-speaking people)”; “Sanjo (Folk music)” to Sanjo (Music)”; and “Torino automobile” to “Ford Torino automobile”.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None! (Executive Committee is canceled per December tradition.)
DECEMBER 9, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BiblioCommons bugs – There are several situations occurring in BiblioCommons that we are following closely. (1) It has been reported that patrons might be able to cancel or suspend holds that are already available. We have conducted many tests and are unable to replicate this problem. (2) We have not heard of any more occurrences of titles that are not able to be searched in the home library, but come up in the “all library”. (3) We have not heard of new problems with lag times existing more that 1-2 hours for availability status, in the last 2-3 weeks. If you are still experiencing any of these situations in the coming weeks please open a WonderDesk ticket. BiblioCommons has made some fixes of late – but not specifically to fix these problems. Our good fortune might be a fallout from other improvements.
BiblioCommons Staff Picks – a handy guide by Northbrook (thanks!) for creating staff picks lists has been posted on our web site under the BiblioCommons section.
UPDATE ON REPAIRS OF PATRONS WITH COLLECTION STATUS:
On Monday 12/5 Sirsi completed the last step in correcting those patrons whose status was incorrectly set to COLLECTION. Libraries that use Unique Management should know that beginning Tuesday 12/6, the Daily Collection UPDATE report and the Weekly COLLECTION Sync report contain accurate data.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADING CHANGES:
Some important Library of Congress subject headings changed earlier this week.
The heading “Occult fiction” was changed to “Paranormal fiction”. This change only affected records that were coded as subject headings (650’s). Genre headings (or 655’s) with the same term of “Occult fiction” did not change. References are in place to assist catalog users.
“Occult fiction, American”, “Occult fiction, Australian”, and “Occult fiction, English” were also changed to “Paranormal fiction, American”, “Paranormal fiction, Australian”, and “Paranormal fiction, English.”
Besides those 4 changes, “Shipwreck survival in literature” was finally broken apart, so there’s a new heading for “Airplance crash survival in literature”.
Other subject headings include: “Acoli (African people)” was changed to “Acholi (African people”; “Gbaya (African people)” to “Gbaya (Ubangi-speaking people)”; “Sanjo (Folk music)” to Sanjo (Music)”; and “Torino automobile” to “Ford Torino automobile”.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None! (Executive Committee is canceled per December tradition.)
Thursday, December 1, 2011
CCS News
DECEMBER 2, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Testing Tuesdays – We will be making some adjustments to the network before testing again. Therefore will not be testing on Tuesday mornings until further notice.
Closed dates - We have input the closed dates where materials are not due through January 2013. If you have not already done so, please check your policies to be sure all dates were input correctly.
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
Last week, CCS loaded 2 files that were obtained from Marcive. One file contained 1591 updated authority records and the other file contained 450 authority records that were needed, but not available until now.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 12/7, 9:30, Glenview: Catalogers
Thur., 12/8, 9:30, Northbrook: ILL
DECEMBER 2, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Testing Tuesdays – We will be making some adjustments to the network before testing again. Therefore will not be testing on Tuesday mornings until further notice.
Closed dates - We have input the closed dates where materials are not due through January 2013. If you have not already done so, please check your policies to be sure all dates were input correctly.
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
Last week, CCS loaded 2 files that were obtained from Marcive. One file contained 1591 updated authority records and the other file contained 450 authority records that were needed, but not available until now.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 12/7, 9:30, Glenview: Catalogers
Thur., 12/8, 9:30, Northbrook: ILL
Thursday, November 17, 2011
CCS News
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BiblioCommons – As of this writing we are anticipating a new build of BiblioCommons which will occur on Friday morning November 17. We continue to report anomalies in searching where the titles that you own may not come up in a search scoped to your library – but come up in a search of All Libraries. For those of you experiencing this please think analytically about the item that you report. Was it recently edited? Did it recently circulate, etc? All observations are good ones at this point and we might see a pattern emerge. (P.S. We heard from BiblioCommons Nov. 17 that they have re-indexed the database and are hoping this will clear up the problem, so that makes it even more important to let us know if the issue is ongoing.)
Testing Tuesdays – the network tests will continue from 6:30-8 AM on Tuesday mornings until we have a clear measure of network performance in regard to our ability to download the SirsiDynix Symphony Client efficiently.
MEMBERSHIP EVALUATION SURVEY:
As per the e-mail we sent out November 14, we hope each department of your library will complete the online survey; the link is in that e-mail. December 9 is our requested deadline; thanks! We have reduced the number of mandatory questions to make response easier for those who don’t have a lot of dealings with CCS.
NEXT WEEK:
There will be no CCS News next week due to the holiday. We wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving!
CCS MEETINGS THE NEXT TWO WEEKS:
Mon., 11/28, 1:30, CCS: Budget & Finance
Wed., 11/30, 10:00, Wilmette: Governing Board (followed by retirement lunch for Jack Hurwitz; please RSVP to R. Shurman by Nov. 23 if you haven’t done so!)
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
BiblioCommons – As of this writing we are anticipating a new build of BiblioCommons which will occur on Friday morning November 17. We continue to report anomalies in searching where the titles that you own may not come up in a search scoped to your library – but come up in a search of All Libraries. For those of you experiencing this please think analytically about the item that you report. Was it recently edited? Did it recently circulate, etc? All observations are good ones at this point and we might see a pattern emerge. (P.S. We heard from BiblioCommons Nov. 17 that they have re-indexed the database and are hoping this will clear up the problem, so that makes it even more important to let us know if the issue is ongoing.)
Testing Tuesdays – the network tests will continue from 6:30-8 AM on Tuesday mornings until we have a clear measure of network performance in regard to our ability to download the SirsiDynix Symphony Client efficiently.
MEMBERSHIP EVALUATION SURVEY:
As per the e-mail we sent out November 14, we hope each department of your library will complete the online survey; the link is in that e-mail. December 9 is our requested deadline; thanks! We have reduced the number of mandatory questions to make response easier for those who don’t have a lot of dealings with CCS.
NEXT WEEK:
There will be no CCS News next week due to the holiday. We wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving!
CCS MEETINGS THE NEXT TWO WEEKS:
Mon., 11/28, 1:30, CCS: Budget & Finance
Wed., 11/30, 10:00, Wilmette: Governing Board (followed by retirement lunch for Jack Hurwitz; please RSVP to R. Shurman by Nov. 23 if you haven’t done so!)
Thursday, November 10, 2011
CCS News
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Tuesday Morning Network Test – we will continue to conduct network testing on Tuesday mornings from 6:30-8am. Please schedule your staff accordingly.
ePay – Due to a change at BiblioCommons we found that some ePay payments were not going through early last week. This has been corrected.
Closed Dates – Most libraries have sent in their table of closed dates for 2012. We will be entering these soon.
THE CCS STAFF WISHES EVERYONE A HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY AND SENDS THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO ALL WHO SERVE AND HAVE SERVED.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Mon., 11/14, 1:30, CCS: BiblioCommons Task Force
Wed., 11/16, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
Thur., 11/17, 9:30, CCS: Acquisitions
Thur., 11/17, 9:30, Dundee: PAS
Fri., 11/18, 10:00, Ela: Director’s Station
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Tuesday Morning Network Test – we will continue to conduct network testing on Tuesday mornings from 6:30-8am. Please schedule your staff accordingly.
ePay – Due to a change at BiblioCommons we found that some ePay payments were not going through early last week. This has been corrected.
Closed Dates – Most libraries have sent in their table of closed dates for 2012. We will be entering these soon.
THE CCS STAFF WISHES EVERYONE A HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY AND SENDS THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO ALL WHO SERVE AND HAVE SERVED.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Mon., 11/14, 1:30, CCS: BiblioCommons Task Force
Wed., 11/16, 9:30, CCS: SCRAP
Thur., 11/17, 9:30, CCS: Acquisitions
Thur., 11/17, 9:30, Dundee: PAS
Fri., 11/18, 10:00, Ela: Director’s Station
Thursday, November 3, 2011
CCS News
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Closed Dates 2012 – It is that time of year again. All circulation heads have been notified to send us the list of closed dates for 2012.
Network testing – we will be conducting further tests. For your scheduling – we will plan on doing these tests for the next few Tuesday mornings. The next test will be Tuesday Nov 8 from 6:30-8am. Please schedule your early staff accordingly. It is important that we figure out how to load clients efficiently .
BiblioCommons – BiblioCommons introduced a bug to their system on October 26 that had an adverse affect on ePay payments. We have been testing a fix with BiblioCommons since this was discovered. We have tested a successful fix (right before writing this) and the situation should be repaired as of Nov 4.
Testing for SMS (text messages)– The computer room has been participating in discussions regarding SMS (texting) at SirsiDynix. A version of this has been made available on the SirsiDynix machines for us (and other participants) to test. We will let you know how it goes as we progress with this test.
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
This week, CCS loaded 2 files that were obtained from Marcive. One file contained 1540 updated authority records and the other file contained 390 authority records that were needed, but not available until now.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
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CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 11/9, *****9:30*****, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 11/10, 9:30, Schaumburg: ILUUG
Fri., 11/11, 9:30, Prospect Heights: Circulation
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Closed Dates 2012 – It is that time of year again. All circulation heads have been notified to send us the list of closed dates for 2012.
Network testing – we will be conducting further tests. For your scheduling – we will plan on doing these tests for the next few Tuesday mornings. The next test will be Tuesday Nov 8 from 6:30-8am. Please schedule your early staff accordingly. It is important that we figure out how to load clients efficiently .
BiblioCommons – BiblioCommons introduced a bug to their system on October 26 that had an adverse affect on ePay payments. We have been testing a fix with BiblioCommons since this was discovered. We have tested a successful fix (right before writing this) and the situation should be repaired as of Nov 4.
Testing for SMS (text messages)– The computer room has been participating in discussions regarding SMS (texting) at SirsiDynix. A version of this has been made available on the SirsiDynix machines for us (and other participants) to test. We will let you know how it goes as we progress with this test.
AUTHORITIES NEWS:
This week, CCS loaded 2 files that were obtained from Marcive. One file contained 1540 updated authority records and the other file contained 390 authority records that were needed, but not available until now.
Virginia R. Seward
CCS Authorities Librarian
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CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 11/9, *****9:30*****, CCS: Executive Committee
Thur., 11/10, 9:30, Schaumburg: ILUUG
Fri., 11/11, 9:30, Prospect Heights: Circulation
Thursday, October 27, 2011
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
Keyword Indexes - The list of Keyword Indexes is now available Online on the Policies page located at:
http://luna.ccs.nsls.lib.il.us/cgi-bi/psp.cgi
A Halloween Riddle
Question: What’s a line in the weekly Purchase Alert report without a Call Number? Answer: A title that you don’t own. As requested, for titles you don’t own, the call number field is now populated with a random call number from the database, one that’s attached to that title. This call number will appear with double parentheses, surrounding it like so ((SOME ONE LIKE YOU)).
Network Testing
We continue to pursue a way to improve the network throughput. We will be doing another network test on Tuesday morning, Nov 1 between 6:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Please schedule early staff accordingly.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None!
Keyword Indexes - The list of Keyword Indexes is now available Online on the Policies page located at:
http://luna.ccs.nsls.lib.il.us/cgi-bi/psp.cgi
A Halloween Riddle
Question: What’s a line in the weekly Purchase Alert report without a Call Number? Answer: A title that you don’t own. As requested, for titles you don’t own, the call number field is now populated with a random call number from the database, one that’s attached to that title. This call number will appear with double parentheses, surrounding it like so ((SOME ONE LIKE YOU)).
Network Testing
We continue to pursue a way to improve the network throughput. We will be doing another network test on Tuesday morning, Nov 1 between 6:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Please schedule early staff accordingly.
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
None!
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