What’s happening at your library?
- Valley City State Library- this winter they did another competition with University of Jamestown for book reading, and this time students were included. Valley City State came out ahead, so they were happy about that, and it was a fun way to promote reading. They also made a point to promote the Libby app.
- Bismarck State College- On December 29th the library of BSC had a flood. Now the offices are in working order, and the area of the library where students sit and study is fine. However, the rest of the library is not accessible. The books are behind a tarp and some of them went to be freeze dried. Right now they are mostly waiting for the insurance company. They are grateful for ebooks because the students can still access those.
- ND State College of Science – thanks to one of their part-time staffers the library is fabulously decorated for Valentine’s Day. They had a library instruction session last Friday, and finished ACRL and IPEDs surveys. Now working on two new libguides.
- University of North Dakota – Working on those federal accessibility requirements before those go into effect. Other than that same as usual.
- Trinity Bible College – Recently had a books and bricks program with Legos and books, and this year they had 60 people. It was a family event, and they had 1/3 school-age kids, 1/3 college students, and 1/3 adults. They had contests and tied it into literacy. They also had blind date with a book. They recently set up a new literature room. They are putting all their literature- P-PZ in one area. They had to paint a bunch of shelves. Children’s books will also be in there, and they are creating oversize collections for the children’s books as the shelves are not adjustable. In one of the areas that they opened up they are creating some study rooms. Phyllis is retiring at the end of June.
- Liz launched a quick poll about the new UI for title search. Result was 6 voted, 2 out of 5 stars.
Drew said he really doesn’t like the new UI, so far he is not a fan, and others at UND have expressed similar opinions.
Linked Open Data
- Linked Data Enrichment Configuration for MARC Records- Please watch this video so we can discuss and set this up for the Network Zone.
- https://youtu.be/2uohVbfZbeI
- Documentation
- Had a discussion and realized we had a bunch of questions. Liz will ask Ex Libris for more information about setting this up.
- Work search capability for BIBFRAME records
Alma release notes for February – (link to the complete release notes)
- Updates to the holdings search
- Cataloger notes viewable in new Title and Holdings search UI
- Repository search labels for titles and holdings search
- Enhanced Names and Subjects Navigation in the Titles Search
- When doing an advanced search for physical titles using the permanent call number, you no longer need to specify the call number type. You still need to specify the call number type if you are searching by call number range.
- There are two new bibliographic heading linking rules available.
- The first one is to prevent the link of a heading if the diacritics are different from the authority record. Ex. 650 $$a Tröll would not link to the 150 $a Troll.
- The other is to prevent the link of a heading if the subfield codes are not identical. Ex. 700 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 $t Tragedies and 100 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 $x Tragedies.
- You can read more here.
- The NZ is currently using the default link Bib headings rule.
- Support for COUNTER R5.1 reports
- Enhancements to Browse Bibliographic Headings
- The FTP configuration now supports a maximum number of files setting to limit the number of files processed by a job.
- Sage journals and ebooks are now supported by the automatic upload of electronic holdings feature.