Virginia Yawn Is Retiring

Great for her, but very sad for us. Virginia has announced her retirement and her last day will be July 31.

For those of you who don't know her, Virginia is a part-time librarian in Technical Services, and catalogs our sound recordings (which includes music CDs and audio books). She's been with the college for almost 30 years, and we will miss her dearly.

Error Reporting Comes To the OPAC!

Just wanted to let you all know that I've asked the server site to set up an error reporting form in the OPAC and it's now up and running. Just click on the image below for a full screen shot.



Right now, technical restrictions only allow this form to be emailed an internal address, i.e. Jim @ the server site, but he'll forward anything he receives to me and I'll take care of it.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Update: To clarify, this form is to be used for correctable errors, like the wrong class number, no holdings on a bib, "No Information Available" on an item record, something misspelled, etc. Continue to report OPAC bugs directly to me with a complete description (including the date and time you encountered the bug and what you were doing right before), and copy and paste the URL from the page giving you the error.

Meebo widget in library OPAC

I came across an interesting blog post about incorporating a Meebo widget into library catalog "no hits" pages. It seems like a really cool idea that would not only help students with catalog searches but also promote our chat reference.