Access to the dissertation by Aimee L. deChambeau, Ph. D., entitled Supported Student Success: Communities of Practice in Higher Education is available at:
http://gradworks.umi.com/36/29/3629604.html
Category: Electronic Services
OCLC has just released a new white paper titled “Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access.” It’s available here: http://www.oclc.org/go/en/econtent-access.html. (24 pages)
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OCLC Research conducted an international linked data survey for implementers between 7 July and 15 August 2014 to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. This was an exploratory survey prompted by the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group, who are excited by the potential of linked data applications to make new, valuable uses of existing metadata and wanted to learn from the experiences in the libraries/archives/museums community what is possible to do and how to go about it.
For more details, go to: http://oclc.org/research/news/2014/09-19.html.
OCLC POSTS TRAINING UPDATE (click here for details)
New courses available in:
Cataloging and Metadata
Digital Collection Management
Resource Sharing and Delivery
Reference and Discovery
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Due to network difficulties during the Sierra upgrade earlier this week, III has rescheduled for the afternoon of Thursday, July 17th.
For complete details on Sierra 1.2.1 please go to: http://blogs.uakron.edu/liblog/2014/07/11/sierra-update-1-2-1-to-be-installed-on-7152014/
The Sierra application and database servers will be updated to Sierra 1.2.1 on Tuesday, July 15th. There is no downtime required for this update. However, a restart will be required after the install in order to download new SDA (Sierra Desktop Application) software.
This update resolves several reported known issues and includes the new read-only API feature that will all Sierra to interact with other systems.
For more details, click on the Release 1.2.1 link on the Sierra SharePoint
From the 7/9/2014 Digest…
On Monday, July 14, Information Technology Services will begin deploying Microsoft and other third-party updates including Adobe Flash, Shockwave and Web browser IE 9. These updates will become mandatory on Friday, July 18, at 3:30 p.m. and will be automatically “pushed-out” to all University-owned computers at that time.
Depending upon which updates are needed by your computer, you may be required to restart yours after the updates are installed. After the installation of IE 9, your computer may need another update, which may require an additional reboot.
Please see Mike or Noah if you have any questions about these updates.
In preparation for the new statistical year starting today, July 1, 2014, changes were made to the Internal Use Count fields and also starting today we’ll begin to use the YTDCIRC field to track item checkouts for statistical year 14/15. Starting in statistical year 15/16 YTDCIRC counts will be moved to the LYRCIRC field and YTDCIRC will be reset to zero.
Internal Use Counts
Internal use counts are used to collect in-house usage statistics for library materials that do not circulate. These statistics (counts) can be stored in the INTL USE, IUSE3, and/or COPY USE item fixed fields depending on the purpose of the count. These fields have been renamed in our Sierra system as follows:
INTL USE IN HOUSE COUNT
IUSE3 PROJECT USE
COPY USE SPECIAL USE
Internal use counts track activity that doesn’t involve a circulation transaction such as a checkout, renewal, or booking. IN HOUSE COUNT will be used to track in-library usage of materials and will be zeroed out at the end of each statistical year. The PROJECT USE and SPECIAL USE fields can be used for library projects, gathering short-term usage statistics, small area inventories, and such. These fields will be zeroed out as necessary, depending on the duration and scope of the usage.
Zeroing the counts in these fields does not impact stored circulation data in the In house or Circ Activity Web Management Reports as these reports draw from historical data stored on the Sierra server . However, “real time” reports such as Sierra Statistics or the Title Circulation Report draw from the record as it is at the time the report is being run, not as it was at a specified time period.
Later this summer we will start offering a Sierra Training session on how the IN HOUSE COUNT field will be used, how the PROJECT USE and SPECIAL USE fields can be used, and how to run reports and gather statistical information from these fields.
YTDCIRC and LYRCIRC
Sierra uses the YTDCIRC field in the item record to automatically count the number of times an item has been checked out during a statistical period. Sierra uses the LYRCIRC field to store the number of times an item was checked out during the previous statistical period.
At the end of the statistical year the count in the YTDCIRC field will be moved to the LYRCIRC field and the YTDCIRC field will be zeroed out. These counts may be used during the review process by comparing the TOT CIRC (total circulation) field to YTDCIRC and LYRCIRC fields or they may be used for other statistical purposes.
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New SharePoint: Permissions
Systems has begun reviewing and updating user access and permissions for all sites on the new UL SharePoint. We hope to have the work done on or before 5/21/2014. In the meantime, if discover you need access to and/or read write/permissions to a specific site, please submit a Footprints ticket at: https://footprints.uakron.edu/libsupport/.
Join OCLC’s Ted Fons and colleagues
for a free webinar:
Tracing the Evolution of Linked Data
An OCLC Collective Insight Event: Tracing the Evolution of Linked Data
Monday, June 2, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Eastern Time
Five years ago linked data was introduced to the library community as a powerful technology with great promise for libraries, visionary but abstract. In the years since, what was a buzzword has become a fixture in our lexicon. Yet as our understanding of the technology has progressed and solidified, we still struggle to identify the specific benefits of linked data within our individual institutions. Join OCLC’s Ted Fons, Corey Harper of New York University, and Phil Schreur of Stanford University as they trace the evolution of linked data technology over the years, and demonstrate practical applications of the latest linked data technologies being utilized in libraries today.
Ted will introduce the topic and provide a brief overview on the evolution of linked data; Corey and Phil will dig deeper with specific examples that will help illustrate this evolution.
Corey will discuss next steps for LOD-LAM (Linked Open Data for Libraries & Museums), exploring tools and techniques to process, enrich and aggregate metadata. He will touch on recent developments, especially focused on efforts within the Hydra and Blacklight community and in the user groups for the Ex Libris product suite. Corey will give special attention to the need for use cases and experimentation.
Phil will speak on Linked Data for Libraries, a promising new grant created through a partnership among Cornell, Harvard and Stanford universities. The project goal is creation of a Scholarly Resource Semantic Information Store (SRSIS) model that works both within the individual institutions and through a coordinated, extensible network of linked open data. Phil will discuss the choice of BIBFRAME as the common data format for this project and conversion to BIBFRAME from MARC data.