LINC Update

'Name the new LLSAP' contest

As part of the process of merging the 4 IHLS LLSAP groups together, a new name is needed!  We can't be 'LINC', 'elCat', 'Gatenet', or 'Silnet' any longer.  We are actively seeking new ideas for names, and there is a web site where you can submit your ideas. Deadline for submissions is 3/1/2012 and the winning entry will receive a new receipt printer.

IHLS LLSAP workstation specifications

Although the timeframe, contract planning, and other information is still being reviewed, we do have a brief listing of required workstation specifications that will likely be necessary for the new automation system.  If libraries are considering a purchase of new workstations, please refer to this web site for planning purposes:

http://www.illinoisheartland.org/?q=content/llsap4-faqs#llsapfaq_specs

New OverDrive Help Site

OverDrive has launched a new Help site at http://help.overdrive.com!

This is a fully searchable website containing hundreds of newly written help articles which are now available to you and your users.

OverDrive Help articles contain screenshots, download links and links to related articles.  Each article can be printed, emailed, or shared via Facebook, Twitter and other sites using the 'share this page' button.

OverDrive Help replaces the FAQs that were formerly linked to on MyMediaMall. 

You can reach this new resource at the URL listed above or through the MyMediaMall website under the Help tab.

Check out this newly improved resource!  Donna

Misplaced Items

Please take a moment to look for the following items:

The first item is 3 DVDs of the Ten Commandments. 
Barcode:  36110000385950 (owned by JFN)
This item currently has the status of "Item hold expired".  Check your hold shelves.

The second item is Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz. 
Barcode:  35935000233425 (owned by JFN)
This item currently has the status of "Item hold expired".  Check your hold shelves.

The third item is The Templars: the Secret History Revealed.
Barcode:  31220000697919 (owned by ZLN)
This item currently has the status of "Transit".  I have contacted the library that it was in transit to and they put it back in delivery.  Check your shelves.

 

Thank you for checking on these items.  Donna

LINC Training

I will be holding a series of LINC training in February.

Dates:

LINC - Getting Started - February 21 - 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
LINC - Basic Circulation - February 22 - 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
LINC - Adv. Circulation - February 23 - 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
LINC - Adding Items - February 23 - 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm


The workshops are $40 a piece or $120 for the series.

To register, email Donna at:  dschaal@illinoisheartland.org

Large Type Book Titles in LINC

To help distinguish large print from regular and larger print book titles in title browse searches, LINC Cataloging Center staff have placed the general material designation "[text (large print)]" after the titles of more recently published large print books.  We think this will help users who are searching for large print editions of books find then more quickly. 

We plan as time permits to use global change software to place this designation in the bib records of all of our large print titles. 

Finding Larger Type Books in LINC

As you know, many romance publishers issue some of their series in both regular and larger print versions. The LINC Cataloging Center has placed a number of enhancements in larger print bib records to help users and librarians distinguish larger print from regular print editions. The major enhancements are:

1.  Local subject heading: Larger type books.

2.  Addition of the phrase "Larger print" to series statements.

3.  Addition of the following edition statement to each record: "Larger print ed."

We hope these features will help you and your patrons to search and find larger print editions with relative ease.

Overdrive (MyMediaMall) enhances mobile apps

OverDrive (MyMediaMall) is pleased to announce new features for its mobile apps that are sure to increase usage even further.

With the release of OverDrive® Media Console™ v2.4 for Android™, BlackBerry® and Windows Phone, users can:

• Return audiobooks as well as eBooks.
• Find definitions while reading using the dictionary lookup feature. Users can also use Wikipedia search, too!

The system requirements are still the same. The free apps can be installed on phones and devices running…

• Android v1.5 (or newer)
• Touch screen BlackBerry OS v4.7 (or newer)
• Non-touch screen BlackBerry OS v4.5 (or newer)
• Windows Phone 7 (or newer)

OMC v2.4 for iOS —iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®—will have early audiobook returns and dictionary lookup for iOS v4.0 (or newer) available soon.

 

Automation Interest Survey

IHLS, as it begins its negotiations with Polaris, has distributed a survey to every IHLS member library as a way to gauge interest in functionality available with a new automation product.  The distribution for this survey was by library email/contact information in L2.  If your library has not updated information in L2, you may not have received the email.  Here is the email and link that was sent out.   If you have not already done so, please help us by filling out the survey for your library.

"At this point in our timeline of events and activities to become one big happy LLSAP for the southern half of Illinois, we will begin negotiating a final contract with Polaris soon.  At the same time, we are working on a new member fee formula that will be different from the formulas currently used by each of the LLSAPS.  Our goal is to develop a formula based in part on population, port use, circulation, and functionality of the software that is used by the individual library, and that is different from the formulas currently used by each LLSAP. 

We do need some information from all of you in order to proceed.  Now is not the time to commit to the modules you will use when it's time to merge to the new system, but we would like to know what modules you would be most interested in using, so that we make sure we include (or exclude, if there is limited or no interest) those modules in our negotiations and fee formula planning.  Please follow the link below to the survey that lists the modules that are available for Polaris and check those modules you would be interested in using at your library.  We would appreciate it if you would include the name of your library, since we will probably need to review the information gathered many times during our negotiations with Polaris.

Thank you for your help with this huge undertaking, and, as always, if you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Joan Bauer (elCat), Chris Dawdy (GateNet), Pat Boze (LINC), or Tracy Edwards (Silnet).

The survey can be found at:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R3Q9XNG

 

LINC Cataloging Center Turnaround Time

We've received some questions about the turnaround time for the LINC Cataloging Center.  As of today, February 2, 2012, the typical turnaround for copy cataloging (titles that already exist in OCLC) is 10 business days.  Copy cataloging titles account for 99.9% of the titles received at the Cataloging Center.  If you have searched LINC and are not able to locate a title, send the item to the LINC Cataloging Center as soon as possible so we can get it in the turnaround queue.

Items that are best sellers, have a large hold queue, or are of other local immediate interest should have a note stating it is a 'priority item' attached to it. Those titles will be moved to the top of the queue as soon as we receive them.