If you have the chance, please try out the new SharePoint site located here.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I’m particularly interested in how well (or not so well) everyone is able to find the content they normally interact with and how intuitive the interface is. You can email me here.
Thanks
Dave Collins
OARnet scheduled maintenance Feb. 5 from 8-10pm
OARnet will be making equipment upgrades. This may result in two short interruptions in access to the OhioLINK website, shared catalog, database lists and other web services. OARnet expects that these interruptions will last 1 minute or less.
The Sierra application and database servers were updated to Sierra 1.1.3 on Monday January 7, 2014. A restart is required in order to download new SDA (Sierra Desktop Application) software..
This update resolves several reported known issues and introduces some new functionality including the following:
.For more details, click on the Release 1.1.3 link on the Sierra SharePoint.
OCLC has just posted a new list of upcoming training opportunities for:
Follow this link for details on courses: http://visit.oclc.org/dm?id=41FF215F3069BA2D080A280BE39D3562B99A427DD10DD538.
465 MARC records provided by OhioLINK were recently loaded for the OhioLINK YBP E-Book project. These records represent a combination of both discovery (non-purchased) and purchased titles. These records are available in the UAL Catalog and will be available in Search-A-Roo within 3-4 working days.
For more information on the OhioLINK YBP E-Book project go to: https://www.ohiolink.edu/ostaff/coll/YBPEbookPilot/index.html
Link to example record: http://library.uakron.edu/record=b4530754~S24
Some specialized software that the libraries do not have installed on the public workstations or that students don’t have installed on their personal machines is available via the university’s Virtual Lab.
Information about the university’s Virtual Lab is available from their site: http://www.uakron.edu/dts/virtual-lab/
The list of software available via the Virtual Lab is listed under Machine & Software Configuration.
There will be a basic intro to Search A Roo for library staff on Oct 31 from 10-11, Bierce 274.
OhioLINK has Scheduled Maintenance on several of their products and services from 11/1-11/2
Expect 30-minute Service Outages starting on Friday, November 1 (at 11 PM) and ending on Saturday, November 2 (at 3 AM)
OhioLINK expects service outages of approximately 30 minutes at varying times for each OhioLINK service during scheduled maintenance on the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) shared infrastructure firewall. On-campus access to content on third-party (non-OhioLINK) vendor websites will not be affected.
The following access/services will be affected by 30-minute outages: Libraries using OhioLINK’s remote authentication (proxy) for off-campus access to third-party vendor websites; and all other OhioLINK-hosted services, including online databases, the OhioLINK central catalog, the OhioLINK Electronic Journals Center (EJC), the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC), OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), OhioLINK Music Center, OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository, and the OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons (DRC).
1,611 MARC records provided by OhioLINK were recently loaded for the Wiley Online Library. 602 existing records were overlaid and 1,009 new records were created. These records are available in the UAL Catalog now and will be available in Search-A-Roo within the next 26-48 hours.
Link to example record:
http://library.uakron.edu/record=b4284272~S24
The Society of Georgia Archivists has named Emily Gainer, Special Collections Librarian/Assistant Processing Archivist at the Center for the History of Psychology, and Michelle Mascaro, Coordinator of Cataloging Services and Special Collections Cataloger at University Libraries, as the 2012 winners of the David B. Gracy II Award. The David B. Gracy II Award is awarded annually in recognition of a superior contribution to the society’s journal, Provenance.
Emily and Michelle’s winning article “Faster Digital Output: Using Student Workers to Create Metadata for a Grant-Funded Project,” is a case study on training and supervising student workers involved with University Libraries, Archival Services’ National Endowment of Humanities grant-funded project to digitize and make available online photographic negatives from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Records. Over the course of the project, ten students created metadata for over 23,400 digitized images. These images are available online as part of University Libraries, Archival Services Digital Collections (http://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15960coll3) .