I imagine that this doesn't happen very often, but if you see it, please drop me a line and I'll patch on bubble gum and bailing wire in the back end to make it look purty in the OPAC. And, as always, thanks for your patience.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
One OPAC Bug Unmasked
Well, as I'm sure most of you know, we've been plagued by OPAC bugs for a while, and the folks at the server site are as stumped as we are. But, we have had one small ray of light peek through. The bug that causes the Item Status to display as "No Information Available" has been isolated. It is an issue with the current version of WebVoyage, and Ex Libris has been made aware of it. Apparently, it only occurs when you have exactly 15 unsuppressed holdings records (MFHDs) attached to one bib. Click on the image below for an example. (You'll just see one MFHD in this .jpg, not all 15.)
I imagine that this doesn't happen very often, but if you see it, please drop me a line and I'll patch on bubble gum and bailing wire in the back end to make it look purty in the OPAC. And, as always, thanks for your patience.
I imagine that this doesn't happen very often, but if you see it, please drop me a line and I'll patch on bubble gum and bailing wire in the back end to make it look purty in the OPAC. And, as always, thanks for your patience.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Free online classes
Interesting free online classes from SirsiDynix Institute
Trends in e-learning: What does it mean for libraries?
May 21, 2008 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Beyond Web 2.0: Taking the social read-write Web to the enterprise level
Jun 13, 2008 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Here is the link to register.
Trends in e-learning: What does it mean for libraries?
May 21, 2008 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Beyond Web 2.0: Taking the social read-write Web to the enterprise level
Jun 13, 2008 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern
Here is the link to register.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Weeding reference collection
As I weed Decatur reference collection I keep running in to the same issues over and over again:
- Print reference sources that are now available online (Congressional Quarterly Almanac, Facts-on-File Yearbook): should we replace print with online. Benefits are obvious: we’ll gain space by weeding print volumes; we’ll gain remote access that will be beneficial for both on-ground and distance learning students. Maybe we’ll get students to actually use reference sources because online is always more attractive to them than print. The main drawback of course is the possibility of loosing funding to maintain subscription or publisher going out of business. And the main question is: Do we need to keep the print volumes even if we have full-text online access?
- Print reference sources that have FREE full-text available online. The obvious examples are Statistical Abstract of the United States, Economic Report of the president, Official Congressional Directory, etc. It would be really nice to have links to these free resources in our OPAC. We can all feel better about retaining only current year because it will be obvious for both us and students how to access historical data.
- With those multi-volume monsters like Congressional Quarterly Almanac or Who’s Who maybe we can come up with some agreement about what campus retain historical volumes, so the rest of us can retain current edition only without feeling guilty about it.
I don’t know if any of it makes any sense to anybody, but I would really like to know how other librarians feel about weeding their reference collections and what decisions they make.
- Print reference sources that are now available online (Congressional Quarterly Almanac, Facts-on-File Yearbook): should we replace print with online. Benefits are obvious: we’ll gain space by weeding print volumes; we’ll gain remote access that will be beneficial for both on-ground and distance learning students. Maybe we’ll get students to actually use reference sources because online is always more attractive to them than print. The main drawback of course is the possibility of loosing funding to maintain subscription or publisher going out of business. And the main question is: Do we need to keep the print volumes even if we have full-text online access?
- Print reference sources that have FREE full-text available online. The obvious examples are Statistical Abstract of the United States, Economic Report of the president, Official Congressional Directory, etc. It would be really nice to have links to these free resources in our OPAC. We can all feel better about retaining only current year because it will be obvious for both us and students how to access historical data.
- With those multi-volume monsters like Congressional Quarterly Almanac or Who’s Who maybe we can come up with some agreement about what campus retain historical volumes, so the rest of us can retain current edition only without feeling guilty about it.
I don’t know if any of it makes any sense to anybody, but I would really like to know how other librarians feel about weeding their reference collections and what decisions they make.
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