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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library UAL User Interfaces Committee

LinkSource link resolver

You may have been searching our databases this week and noticed a new link called LinkSource. We are currently replacing our old OLinks link resolver with a product from EBSCO called LinkSource. A link resolver helps connect citations from one database with the article’s full text located in another database. To do this it takes information about the citation and tries to match it with the information about our electronic journals (and sometimes other electronic resources) that we maintain in our eJournal A-Z list. Migrating all of our eJournal information from our current A-Z list to a new product, also from EBSCO, is part of this project as well. Ultimately all of this work is important in setting the stage for the new Discovery Service, which we expect to launch publicly in late September.

As we move through this project you may see different links, such as LinkSource, presented as part of your database search results. There may also be some glitches in linking from a citation in one database to the full text in another while we work on improving the system, and we appreciate your patience with this process. If you have any serious problems to report please do so through the Footprints system so that we can track them properly.

 

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The 2013 EGL-IUG has been cancelled.

This year’s Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Conference (EGL-IUG), scheduled for Friday, September 13 at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, OH, has been cancelled.

The Planning Committee will be starting its work for a 2014 EGL IUG early by considering new possibilities for how the conference will be organized. Look for a survey to be offered in the later months of this year for your input as to what you’d like to see from a regional conference such as the EGL-IUG.

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Save the date! The EGL-IUG meeting will be held on 9/13/2013

Save the date! The 2013 EGL-IUG meeting will be held on Friday, September 13 at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio (www.robertscentre.com).  More details to come as they are made available.

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Electronic Services UAL Technical Services Committee

New LibGuides for the NE Ohio Regional Depository

The NE Ohio Regional Depository has announced the available of two new LibGuides.

The first guide is for the public and serves as the Depository web page.  The guide contains facility and program information, contact information, and basic statistics. The url is http://libraryguides.neomed.edu/aecontent.php?pid=260508 .

The second guide is a resource for library and Depository staff. For more information and a link to this guide, go to the UL SharePoint: https://sharepoint.uanet.edu/Library/default.aspx.

 

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UL Web Analytics Reports

The Fall 2012 University Libraries Web Analytics Reports, as well as the UL Web Continuous Quality Improvement Plan, are now available on SharePoint here.

The reports show usage data of:

  • The UL Website
  • The UAL Catalog
  • Serial Solutions

Stats for Spring 2013 will be forthcoming.

 

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Sierra News and Update / IUG 2013 review on July 9th 1:30 – 3:00

Sierra News and Update / IUG 2013 review

When: Tuesday, July 9th  1:30 – 3:00
Where: Bierce 154

Join e-Services and celebrate our 1 year Sierra-nniversary. We’ll review the library’s accomplishments of last year and tell you about upcoming Sierra enhancements and developments.  We’ll show you how to find the latest information on Sierra from III and IUG and talk about the upcoming III Sierra training sessions and plans for implementing an on-going Sierra training schedule.  And best of all, we’ll have some goodies to eat and prizes to give.

Schedule of events

1:30 – 1:40:         Mingle, grab some goodies, find a seat and welcome.
1:40 – 2:00:         Sierra development review and Akron Sierra development leadership.
2:00 – 2:20:         Sierra and III news and updates with time for Q & A.
2:20 – 2:40:         Sierra Training at UA Libraries.
2:40 – 2:55:         IUG resources, enhancement process, IUG 2013 highlights
2:55 – 3:00:         Raffle and prizes.

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Electronic Services

Sierra: Create Lists known issue resovled

III updated our system settings and has resolved the create lists editing issue.

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Electronic Services

Sierra: Create Lists known issue

We are experiencing affects of a Sierra 1.1.1 known issue. Users are not able to update data in variable fields within Create Lists. I’ve submitted a request to III to resolve this issue.

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Electronic Services

Sierra: New theme – Glacier Point

Release 1.1.1 includes a new display theme called Glacier Point. The Glacier Point color scheme is off-white, tan, dark blue, black, and dark red. The system defined default Sierra theme is Half Dome which has a color scheme of a very light green, white, dark red, dark orange, and various shades of brown.

If you would like to try out and/or switch to the new Glacier Point theme, please submit a Footprints ticket and indicate which login/s you want the theme installed on.

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Sierra: Release 1.1.1 installed

Sierra Release 1.1.1 installed on Tuesday, 6/18/2013.

  1. If you haven’t done so already, please restart your Sierra Desktop Application (SDA) so the new software can be installed.
  2. Please review Release 1.1.1 notes, known issue resolutions, and Release 1.1.1 known issues. Links to this information can be found on the Sierra SharePoint: https://sharepoint.uanet.edu/Library/depts/ulsys/sierra/default.aspx
  3. Release 1.1.1 contains some new features and enhancements. More details to come on the following:
  • New Glacier Point theme (user-defined setting)
  • Icons with labels (user-defined setting)
  • Browse display enhanced to bold the sorting title