Contacting NHAIS Services

Roughly a year and a half ago, new e-mail addresses were implemented at the State Library but a check of the NHAIS Services mailbox over the past month found two dozen libraries were still sending messages to us using an old address. We are now told that all those old e-mail addresses ending with @library.state.nh.us will no longer work as of August 1. Please use our "new" address (nhu-pac@dcr.nh.gov) for NHAIS Help Desk questions, notification of ILL vacations, delivery of MARC files, and other NHAIS business. The address can be found near the bottom of most NHU-PAC pages.

NHU-PAC searching brief outage 7-31

Friday, July 31: NHU-PAC searching will be disabled for a few minutes starting at 9:15 a.m. This is to allow installation of an updated index. Searching service should be restored within 10 minutes.

Thank you, Charlie!

After 21 years at the New Hampshire State Library, today marks Charles Le Blanc's last day as a state employee. He has been the leader, champion, and supervisor of NHAIS for as long as any of the current NHAIS staff can remember. In 1999 I worked at an OCLC network in Washington, D.C. and was looking to move to N.H. When I asked the few New England librarians I knew -- mostly at NELINET -- who I should know in N.H. Charlie Le Blanc was the name that came up.

I have been working for Charlie since the fall of 1999 and it has been a wonderful experience. Charlie taught me most of what I know about library automation and everything I know about the unique character of libraries in the Granite State. It will be a different office without Charlie, and he will be missed by us all. I expect he will be too busy fishing, brewing, and generally having a good time to think much about NHAIS, but I hope that when he does think of it he realizes how many of the successes and accomplishments we have had over the years are thanks to him.

Happy retirement Charlie!

Van Directory Change

Great Bay Community College will now be receiving their van delivery via Portsmouth Public Library. The online directory has been changed to reflect this.

The online van directory can be found at http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/directory.html.

To print a current van directory list arranged in alphabetical order by library, please use the PDF version which is available at http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/documents/vandirectory.pdf

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this pdf file.If you do not have it installed on your machine, you may down load it for free from http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

NHU-PAC searching brief outage Friday a.m.

Friday, July 24: NHU-PAC searching will be out of service for approximately 10 minutes starting at 7:45 a.m.

Van Delivery Bins

Often times, a van driver will need to drop off an "overflow" bin at a library while delivering materials on the van delivery route. If you receive an "overflow" bin on your delivery day, please make sure that you return it the next time the van stops at your library. These bins belong to the State Library and often are in short supply due to the volume of materials being transported. Your cooperation in the speedy return of these bins would be appreciated by all of the van drivers.