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Easier than Ever to Book Rooms in Bierce

Booking study rooms and learning studios in Bierce Library got a much needed upgrade!

Over the summer, Paul and the Access Services staff moved all our student booking of Bierce Library study rooms from the Sierra platform to the LibCal platform. We believe the LibCal platform will be more user-friendly and require less staff time to manage.

At the beginning of this semester, we started moving our mediated booking (Learning Studios) bookings to LibCal as well. As of yesterday, Don will be approving all Learning Studio bookings via LibCal only (thanks Don!). The links on our website have been updated and hopefully you’ll find the experience to be seamless and much simpler.

This is the direct link for booking a learning studio: http://uakron.libcal.com/booking/learningstudios 

If you have questions about how the system works, please contact Paul x6986 or Stephanie x7224.

 

 

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Electronic Services

NOTSL Fall Meeting: 10/30/2015

Save the Date: NOTSL Fall Meeting

anounced September 15, 2015

NOTSL will hold its Fall Meeting October 30, 2015 at Cuyahoga County Public Library’s Parma-Snow Branch Auditorium, 2121 Snow Road, Parma, Ohio.

Our topic will be Don’t Be Afraid of the Big, Bad BIBFRAME (or Linked Data!).

Interested in learning more about BIBFRAME and Linked Data?  Wondering how to prepare your library catalog?  If so, please join NOTSL as we learn about Linked Data, the Library of Congress BIBFRAME Pilot, as well as practical applications of these topics.

This timely subject will be discussed by Paul Frank of Library of Congress and Roman Panchyshyn of Kent State University. Registration and program details will be available on the NOTSL website soon.

Lunch will be on your own.

 

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Access Services Electronic Services UAL Technical Services Committee

OCLC connectivity issues across multiple services 9/8/2015

OCLC is aware of connectivity issues across multiple services. There is no estimated time of resolution. The OCLC tech team is investigating the issue.

Check updates at: https://twitter.com/OCLC  

 

 

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Electronic Services

Sierra Review Files Reconfigured

Sierra Review files have been reconfigured as follows:

  • 100 review files are available to create lists
  • Review file sizes range from 100 records to 500,000 records
    • 100 10 files
    • 500 10 files
    • 1,000 20 files
    • 3,000 10 files
    • 5,000 20 files
    • 10,000 15 files
    • 25,000 10 files
    • 50,000 4 files
    • 80,000 2 files
    • 100,000 2 files
    • 250,000 1 file
    • 500,000 1 file

Reminders:

  • Restart Sierra to see the new review file configuration.
  • Take care when selecting a review file. Make sure you are selecting an empty review file or you are overwriting your own review file.  If you’re overwriting a review file, please take a moment to look at the message on screen and make sure you are not overwriting someone else’s review file.
  • Be respectful and courteous to others and empty your review file(s) when you have completed your work.
  • Learn more about creating lists and working with review files at: https://library.uakron.edu:63100/sierra/admin/help/Default.htm#sgil/sgil_lists.html?Highlight=create lists
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Electronic Services General Interest

Frank Bove Presentation

Frank Bove

Electronic Resources Librarian

 

Frank Bove shared his knowledge at the following presentation. Nice job!

 

Bove, Frank J. Electronic Resources Librarianship and the Lifecycle of Electronic Resources. Electronic Resources Working Group (ERWG) -Training Day, Columbus, Ohio, 19 June 2015.

 

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Scheduled downtime: ProQuest Aug 8, 10pm

On Saturday, August 8, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of its products. The system maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 10:00 PM American Eastern Standard Time and will last for eight (8) hours.

During this time access to the ProQuest products listed below will not be available and users will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance:

Research databases
ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com)
ProQuest Congressional (congressional.proquest.com)
ProQuest Dialog (search.proquest.com/professional)
Chadwyck-Healey databases (full list available here)
CultureGrams
eLibrary (all editions)
ProQuest Digital Microfilm
ProQuest Obituaries
ProQuest Research Companion
SIRS (all editions)

Dissertation publishing
ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator

Reference management/Research support tools
RefWorks
COS Funding Opportunities
COS Scholar Universe

Bibliographic and catalog enrichment resources
Books in Print®
LibraryThing for Libraries™
ProQuest Syndetic Solutions™
Resources for College Libraries

Bowker
TitlePage
SAN (Standard Address Number)

 

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Electronic Services General Interest

Thompson’s short story places in fiction contest

Paul Thompson’s short story Fall received second place in the category Fiction: Fantasy in the recent Wordhaus fiction writing contest! Congratulations, Paul!

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Electronic Services General Interest

7/8 switch to new H: drive location

We will switch to the new location for our H: drive early on Wednesday, July 8.

This change should be transparent to everyone. If you do find something to be awry with your H: drive or My Documents, log out of Windows and back in to see if that corrects it. If it does not, please submit a footprints ticket.

 

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Access Services Electronic Services Research & Learning Services UAL Technical Services Committee

Training Update from OCLC

OCLC has announced learning opportunities in cataloging & metadata, digital collection management, resource sharing & delivery, maximizing, and reference & discovery.  Follow this link for details:  OCLC TRAINING UPDATE.

 

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Electronic Services General Interest

H: drive server upgrade

On July 8th we are transitioning to a new server where our H: drive is located. This is part of a larger, university-wide IT upgrade to server hardware and software. This change will be transparent to you as the end-user. Mike has made the necessary changes on most staff and faculty PCs already, and will be stopping by shortly if he has not yet updated your machine.