ProQuest has a maintenance window coming up from Saturday 8/20/16 at 10pm through Sunday 8/21/16 at 6am. This will cause many ProQuest platforms and products to be temporarily offline, including the ProQuest platform, ProQuest Congressional, and RefWorks, among others. The complete list of affected products is at this ProQuest support site.
Category: Electronic Services
Bierce Library Hosting ALAO TEDSIG 2016 Workshop
Streamlining Technical Services Workflows with MarcEdit
Presenter: Terry Reese (The Ohio State University)
Terry Reese, of the Ohio State University, will lead a workshop on how to use MarcEdit to streamline typical technical services workflows, especially as they pertain to cataloging, file loading, and electronic resources. This workshop’s target audience are both those new to MarcEdit, and those who are familiar with MarcEdit but need a refresher. Terry Reese created MarcEdit nearly seventeen years ago and has supported and developed this free software package used by librarian around the world.
Registration is full for the workshop to be held this Friday, August 12th, in Learning Studio 154 from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM.
Mike Monaco
Coordinator, Cataloging Services
On June 10, 2016, Mike Monaco was part of a panel presenting to NOTSL (Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians) in the program “Now What? RDA and Best Practices for Cataloging Special Formats”. Mike was also elected to Vice Chair of the NOTSL Board. According to their website, the Vice Chairperson serves three consecutive one-year terms, one as Vice-Chairperson/Chairperson Elect, one as Chairperson, and one as Immediate Past Chair and Chair of the Scholarship Committee.
Way to keep professionally busy, Mike!
We’re experiencing issues accessing Sierra Help on our local Sierra Server. When accessing Sierra Help via the Sierra Desktop App or through a saved bookmark, users are prompted twice for their Sierra login and password. After entering the login and password the second time, the login fails. I’ll open a ticket with III. In the mean time, you can still access Sierra Help through III CSDirect.
Usually I’d tell you to go to the Sierra SharePoint for the link to CSDirect and the CSDirect username and password. However, this information is on a web page in SharePoint and if you read my previous post, you’ll know that I can’t because you won’t be able to see the information :(.
If you need to access Sierra Help, send me an e-mail or call me and I’ll send you the link to CSDirect and get you the username and password.
Update 8/2/2016 4:45 pm
III is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. You can access Sierra Help via CSDirect. From the CSDirect home page, click on Sierra and then click on SIerra Web Help.
For CSDirect access and login information go to: https://sps.uakron.edu/sites/UL/depts/es/ulsys/sierra/default.aspx.
In March, David Procházka presented “Tracing Tárrega’s Preludes for Guitar” at the 2016 meeting of the Music OCLC Users Group in Cincinnati (http://musicoclcusers.org/recent-meetings/2016-presentations/?).
During fall 2015, David Procházka wrote an introduction for a new edition of Vincent d’Indy’s orchestral piece Diptyque méditerranéen. (München : Musikproduktion Höflich, 2015).
Nice job!
OH-TECH has informed OhioLINK that on Tuesday, May 31, between 9am and 11am, they will be updating the load balancers for all their services (which includes OhioLINK services). There will be no downtime as part of this maintenance.
However, as part of this, OH-TECH will be disallowing certain types of connections from outdated browsers. Users with outdated browsers may see errors.
OH-TECH has verified that the following browser versions will continue to access all services without error after the change.
Google Chrome: v 51, 50, 49
Mozilla Firefox: v 46, 45, 44
Apple Safari: v 9, 8, 7
Microsoft Internet Explorer: v 11, 10, 9
Other browsers may also continue to function, but this is what has been tested.
I’ve recently created new temporary item location, status, and imessage codes to be used during the Law Library move and renovation. The new codes, how they will be used, and how they will display in the UAL Catalog can found at:
These codes are only to be used for Law items being moved or put into storage during the Law School and Law Library renovation.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
As a member of IUG, University Libraries is eligible to vote for 2016 IUG Enhancement ballot items. As IUG liaison I’m the person designated to complete the ballot. Based on your input I’ll cast votes in each of the categories that are applicable to our Sierra system.
2016 IUG Enhancement Ballot:
- Below are the page numbers for the functional areas applicable to our Sierra system set-up. Look over the ballot items in each section that corresponds to the function(s) you use in Sierra.
- Select up to the maximum number of ballot items allowed in each functional section. Copy and paste the Ballot # into a list. Examples: ACQ-1 Funds, CIR-40 Patron Record.
- Some sections may be of interest to all: Create Lists, Core Functionality, WebPac, Statistics and Reporting
- Once you have completed your list(s) of ballot items, send them to me by 12:00 pm (noon) on Monday 2/29.
Acquisitions (choose 8) Page 1
Cataloging (choose 4) Page 8
Circulation (choose 22) Page 12
Core Functionality (choose 10) Page 32
Create Lists and
Global/Rapid Updates (choose 4) Page 41
ERM (choose 2) Page 45
INNReach (choose 2) Page 52
Other Programs (choose 2) Page 54
Serials (choose 3) Page 58
Statistics and Reporting (choose 3) Page 61
WebPAC (choose 12) Page 64
You can view previous year’s ballots and the 2016 Ballot in Excel format on the IUG website. You’ll need to log in with your MyIUG Login. If you don’t have a MyIUG login, you can create one. Our member code is 456.
- 2016 Ballot: http://innovativeusers.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=143
- Previous Ballots and results: http://innovativeusers.org/ballots-voting-information.html
For more information on the IUG Enhancement Process:
On December 8, at 2:00, University Libraries will host a live showing of an ALCTS webinar titled “RDA Serials Cataloging Update,” presented by Steve Shadle (University of Washington). We’ve reserved Bierce Learning Studio 154 for the event. Additional information about the webinar is available at http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/121015. Questions? Ask David or Michelle.
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