Monday, October 31: Enhanced content (cover images, reviews, first-chapter excerpts, tables of contents, etc.) which should display when viewing an individual record in the NHU-PAC is temporarily unavailable. We're working to restore this feature.
The New Hampshire State Library will be closed on the following days in the month of November:
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.
Janet Eklund, Administrator of Library Operations, NHSL, recently sent out this reminder to NH libraries. Don't let NH get left out again!
In its seventh week, the 2011 National Survey of Public Library Funding and Technology Access continues to receive survey responses. Currently, New Hampshire has a 32% response rate! Thanks to all the librarians who took the time to complete the lengthy survey. Many librarians have started the survey but not yet completed it.
The survey is at this URL: http://www.plinternetsurvey.org/ It will close November 11.
You will need your FSCS code which you can find here:
http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/lds/documents/2010publiclibrarystatistics.xls
To see which NH libraries who have started and/or completed the survey to date visit this URL:
http://plftas.pnmi.com/states/
Remember that NH's technology data was the only state not included in the 2009-2010 survey because we did not have sufficient survey response rates. Our participation rate has drastically improved since 2010-- and we are, of course, aiming for as high a percentage as possible!
Thank you again for your willingness to do the survey.
The North Country van route will not be running today due to driver illness. Today’s NC schedule can be viewed at http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/north_country.html.
We will be installing a new NHU-PAC server in the next couple of weeks--this is the main server where all the NHU-PAC data resides--which will require the system to be shut down almost entirely for 3 days the week of November 7th. Tuesday, October 25, 8 a.m.: Enhanced content (cover images, reviews, first-chapter excerpts, tables of contents, etc.) now displays correctly when viewing individual records in the NHU-PAC.
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 7:55 a.m.: Part one of our monthly server maintenance is done and all NHU-PAC functions should be working normally--contact the NHAIS Help Desk at 271-2141 if you find otherwise. Part two, affecting only the ILL program, starts at 10 a.m. and should cause an ILL service outage of no more than 15 minutes.
NHU-PAC servers will be restarted tomorrow morning as part of our monthly maintenance schedule--and we're adding a new step to our last-Tuesday-of-the-month routine which will affect ILL users.
Beginning around 7:40 a.m. on Tuesday, October 25, all NHU-PAC services will be shut down. Most will be available again within 10 minutes; Holdings Maintenance will probably take about 15 minutes to be restored. All NHU-PAC functions should be back to normal by 8 a.m.
Beginning around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 25, the ILL program will be shut down for approximately 15 minutes. Other parts of the NHU-PAC will be unaffected.
Monday, October 24: Enhanced content (cover images, reviews, first-chapter excerpts, tables of contents, etc.) which should display when viewing an individual record in the NHU-PAC is temporarily unavailable. We're working to restore this feature.
The State Department of Information Technology has changed its policy regarding listserv archives. In the past the archives basically stayed there as long as the server was unchanged (NHAIS-L archives go back to 2006 for example). Going forward the archives will remain available (in the case of the NHAIS-L and NHAIS-ILL lists they are non-public so are only available to subscribers) for the current year + one year into the past.
I don't see this making a huge difference to anyone -- how often do you read the listserv archives from more than 24 months ago?-- but I wanted to let people know.
We've made a modest change to title searches in the NHU-PAC which should keep you from getting lost while looking for Lost.
Previously, a search for Lost: the Complete Fifth Season would yield no hits even though the record for this DVD set has been in the NHU-PAC since 2009. You could look by the title Lost (more than 10,000 hits on its own!) in combination with, say, a performer's name but you'd still have several hits to look through.
The problem: MARC subfield 245n, where the season number for DVD sets of TV series and the part number for graphic novels is usually stored, wasn't included in our title search index. Now it is, making it much easier to target Naruto Vol. 48 or Friday Night Lights: the Fifth and Final Season. This change applies to all NHU-PAC title searches, including in the ILL program.
Sample title fields from MARC bibliographic records, with newly searchable data in blue:
245 00 ‡aLost.‡nThe complete fifth season,‡pThe journey back‡h[videorecording] /‡cABC Studios ; Bad Robot.
245 10 ‡aNaruto.‡nVol. 48,‡pThe cheering village /‡cstory and art by Masashi Kishimoto ; [translation, Mari Morimoto].
245 00 ‡aFriday night lights.‡nThe fifth and final season‡h[videorecording] /‡cUniversal City Studios, Inc.
If you have questions about this or any other NHU-PAC searching issues, please contact the NHAIS Help Desk at 271-2141 or nhu-pac@dcr.nh.gov.
Wednesday, October 12, 12:30 p.m.: Enhanced content (cover images, reviews, first-chapter excerpts, tables of contents, etc.) now displays correctly when viewing individual records in the NHU-PAC.
Wednesday, October 12: Enhanced content (cover images, reviews, first-chapter excerpts, tables of contents, etc.) which should display when viewing an individual record in the NHU-PAC is temporarily unavailable. We're working to restore this feature.
Friday, October 7: There will be a brief interruption of NHU-PAC searching starting at 7:40 a.m. today. This is to allow updating of searching indexes. Searching should be restored in about 5 minutes.
Thursday, Oct. 6: NHSL e-mail service has been restored and NHAIS Services mail received at nhu-pac@dcr.nh.gov has been acknowledged. If you sent something to NHAIS Services since Tuesday afternoon and did not get a reply, please send it again. Thanks.
Since sometime last night (based on a report from someone who tried to email me then) the State Library (in addition to several other state agencies) has no email service. Currently (12:46pm, 10/5/2011) the Office of Information Technology is saying they don't know how long this email outage will last.
If you sent email to anyone here at the library that required immediate attention, you may want to give them a call. You can reach the NHAIS Help Desk at 271-2141. Other staff numbers are on the NHSL website.
Once the email is back up we will let you know if mail sent to NHAIS Services during the outage has come through (especially files of records for loading) or will need to be resent.
