OISWorks provides highlights of major and minor system changes released
by the HUL Office for Information Systems (OIS) in the previous month. If
you have questions about entries in this issue, please
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To see the status of large projects that have been prioritized by the
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Development Projects page on the OIS web site.
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Aleph/HOLLIS Catalog
10/28 Changed labels for certain 520 fields (Subject, Review, Scope
and content, Abstract, Content advice) in OPAC.
10/28 Implemented enhanced Unicode precomposition table to accommodate
variable order of diacritics for characters with more than one
accent.
10/27-28 Loaded 150,000 CRL records. Approximately 128,000 added as new,
primarily theses.
10/27
Changes
to Call number index displays in Cataloging client
10/16 Item status and loan policy tables in Aleph were configured to
allow Baker Library to circulate Apple iTouch devices from the reserve
desk. At this time, the iTouch devices enable the HU community and
prospective students to take a podcast tour of Baker Library.
10/15 Loaded supplement of 500 records for Safari e-book collection. The
initial load of 5000 Safari e-book records took place in
September.
10/02 Bug fix:
Bibliographic
records brought in from WorldCat via Z39.50 are showing unwanted
fields (952, 994, 948, and SID).
10/02 Added 4 collection codes (including WAX) and new subfields to 506
in holdings that will be used for WAX cataloging.
10/02
Aleph
service pack installed.
10/01 Implemented service pack enhancement that allows call number to
display on the HOL tab in the cataloging editor.
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Collection Tools (VC & TED)
10/15 VC 1.2.5 released. Includes changes to support web crawling of OCP
virtual collections.
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DRS & Delivery Services
10/09
Batch
Builder 1.2.9 released.
10/02 Billing administration portion of DRS Web Admin updated to support
FY09 billing.
10/01 HOLLIS metadata harvester for PDS (aleph_ws) 1.0.6 released.
Updated the IP allow list to support new monitoring service.
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EResource Systems
* Subscription renewals are underway for Blackwell, Elsevier,
Springer and Wiley and other vendors..
* E-journals: The SFX database of e-journal information, which
supports the Find It service, was updated with the July, August,
September, and October monthly files. After the updates, over 8,000
new journals were added to Find It and the HOLLIS Catalog. There are now
approximately 40,917 journals in the Harvard Libraries' Find E-Journal
list.
* E-resources: There were 19 new resources added to the e-research
(Metalib) portal during September and October. New e-resources added
within the past 3 months are also available at any time; from the
e-research portal, select the cross-search tab, and then under
"Select Search Type" choose "New E-resources".
Currently there are 27 resources on trial via the ERM.
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Reporting & Statistics
10/31
Full
refresh of Aleph bibliographic reporting data.
10/14
New
data in Aleph reporting database.
10/07
Library
Reporting System was moved to a new server.
10/06
Portal
statistics released for FY07 and FY08.
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OLIVIA/VIA
10/12 Approximately 43,000 new/updated authority records were
exported from OLIVIA to VIA, bringing the total in VIA to just over
82,000 authority records. Going forward, updates will be scheduled the
first Monday of every month, starting November 2008.
10/05 OLIVIA bug fix: problem printing from a list of Sites.
10/01 VIA 2.5.1 released:
* Fixed bug that prevented full size display of restricted
images from full record view.
* Updated text on deep content pages.
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Reserves List
10/8 Reserves List 3.1.14 released:
* Change the URL for the Course iSites contact page link in
Library Tool interface.
* Add a new IP address to the IP allow list to support
access by a new monitoring server.
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