Sutton FL added to NHSL van route

Librarians,

Please update your van delivery information to indicate that Sutton Free Library will now receive van delivery service via drop off at New London (Tracy Memorial Library). The schedule is Tuesdays and Thursdays via the Southwest route.

Mark materials as:

TO: New London (Tracy ML)

FOR: Sutton (Sutton FL)

Please be patient, since it will take us some time to update our online van lists at http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/index.html.

Donna Gilbreth

Supervisor, Reference and Information Services

New Hampshire State Library

20 Park Street

Concord, NH 03301

603-271-2060

donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov

No NC van Wed 1/30

The North Country van route is cancelled today due to treacherous road conditions. The following libraries will not be receiving a van delivery today. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Rumney
Wentworth
Warren
Orford
Piermont
Haverhill
North Haverhill
Woodsville
Bath
Lisbon Regional High School
Lisbon
Sugar Hill
Franconia
Littleton
Bethlehem

Donna Gilbreth

Supervisor, Reference and Information Services

New Hampshire State Library

20 Park Street

Concord, NH 03301

603-271-2060

donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov

Brief NHU-PAC outage tomorrow morning

As noted on our known issues page, NHU-PAC servers are routinely restarted on the last Tuesday of the month. NHAIS Services will be restarting NHU-PAC servers tomorrow morning starting around 7:35 a.m.  The NHU-PAC should be back online within 10 minutes except that Holdings Maintenance sometimes takes an extra 5 minutes to be restored.  There will also be a brief interruption of the ILL program around 10 a.m. when the ILL server is reset by our SirsiDynix support team in Utah.

2012 Annual Report Survey

According to Janet Eklund, Administrator of Library Operations, New Hampshire State Library:

In case you have been wondering when the 2012 Annual Report Survey will be open for data entry, I hope to release it by Mid-February with a deadline of April 26th.
 

no NC van route Tue 1/22

Due to driver illness, the North Country van route is cancelled today. I am sorry for the inconvenience. Below are the libraries that will not receive van service today:
Lancaster
Colebrook
White Mountains Community College, Berlin
Berlin
Jackson
North Conway
Conway
Madison
Bartlett
Twin Mountain

Donna Gilbreth
Reference and Information Services Supervisor
New Hampshire State Library
20 Park St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-2060
donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov

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.

January 2013 Holiday - Civil Rights Day

The New Hampshire State Library will be closed on Monday, January 21, 2013 for Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day.

There will be NO VAN DELIVERY on that date.

For a complete list of all of the holidays the State Library is closed, please visithttp://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/instructions.html (the van delivery instructions) and scroll down to "NO Van Service".

If for any other reason (e.g. bad weather) van service on a particular route(s) does not operate, libraries will be notified via an e-mail message and this blog. If your library does not receive van service on a particular day, please check your e-mail and this blog before calling the State Library.

Please remember to properly label each item which you are sending via the Van Delivery Service. This will help ensure these items make it to the correct destination in a timely manner.

If you need a refresher on how items should be marked for the van, please refer to the Van Delivery Service - Instructions,http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/instructions.html, and scroll down to number 3 of the guidelines, "Addressing material to be sent on the van".

To print a current van directory list arranged in alphabetical order by library, please use the PDF version which is available athttp://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 fromhttp://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Due to the ever increasing load of materials transported by the New Hampshire State Library van delivery system, our vans can reach maximum capacity before the end of a van route, especially following long weekends and holidays. Our drivers can decline to accept materials if they feel they cannot fit them safely on their van. We are also asking libraries to please be aware of volume during times when there is likely to be a problem. You should prioritize your materials to be picked up, in case some items must be left until the next van pick up. That will allow us to immediately transport the most important items as quickly as possible.

If you have any questions you may contact Donna Gilbreth at 271-2060 or Diana DeCota at 271-2206.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

No LR, CD vans Wed 1/16

Hello librarians,
Due to the weather conditions the Lakes Region route and the Capital Region route are cancelled today. The van routes are listed here: http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/wednesday.html
The Lakes Region driver will attempt to deliver bins to the following libraries tomorrow (Thursday):
        New Hampton (if librarian is available)
        Plymouth
        Meredith
        Moultonborough
        Wolfeboro (if open)
I am hoping that the Capital Region driver will be able to do the truncated route tomorrow to the following libraries (but if you want to come pick up your items, that's fine!):
        Hopkinton
        Bow
        Pembroke
        Chichester
        Loudon
        Canterbury
        Boscawen
Donna Gilbreth
Reference and Information Services Supervisor
New Hampshire State Library
20 Park St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-2060
donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov

Koha through nhaisLOCAL

NHSL has been working on putting together an open-source library automation solution for NH libraries, particularly for small, inadequately-automated, NH libraries. This is the nhaisLOCAL project and information about it, including the negotiated pricing, is at http://nhaislocal.blogspot.com

 

This week we are collecting information from NH libraries who are interested in being in the queue to implement a Koha system through nhaisLOCAL for their library within the next 2 years.  Please visit http://nhaislocal.blogspot.com/2013/01/are-you-ready.html for the survey link.

 

Pictures, reviews are back

Thursday, Jan. 10. 8:30 a.m.: Those missing pictures, reviews, and such have been restored.

Pictures, reviews missing again

Thursday, Jan. 10: Enhanced content (cover images, reviews, first-chapter excerpts, tables of contents, etc.) which should display when viewing individual records in the NHU-PAC is temporarily unavailable again.

Temporary Job Opening in NHAIS

Michelle Reed, whom many of you know as the person who responds to many of the emails sent to nhu-pac@dcr.nh.gov, will be going out on medical leave beginning next week.

We will be hiring a temporary replacement to cover her work while she is out. The position is on the NH Library JobLine today.

MARC records for ebooks

There has recently been some discussion on nhais-l about MARC records for ebooks. I thought a quick overview of what NHAIS has been doing regarding these might be of interest.

• Titles that have been purchased by the NH Downloadable Books Consortium and for which an OCLC record exists, are added each week to the NHU-PAC based on the purchase list. These records have notes on them (in the 599 tag) indicating they are part of the NH Downloadable collection and have 856 tags added to them as well to provide NH patrons direct links to the material. If your library is part of the NH downloadables group you will want to keep these 856 tags in the records in your catalog so your patrons can click directly from your catalog to the download page (assuming your local system supports live links).
• For ebooks acquired by NHAIS libraries other than the NH Downloadables ones, OCLC records are added to NHU-PAC for these titles in the same way records are added for print books, or DVDs, or anything else. If you do not find a NHU-PAC record for the material you have acquired you should submit a "brief record" through NHU-PAC's Holdings Maintenance tab. If a record is available on OCLC for your title it will be added to NHU-PAC the next business day.
• Materials for which there are not currently OCLC records available are not currently being cataloged by the NHAIS Original Cataloging project. This applies to both NH Downloadables titles and titles requested by individual libraries. Such a project would be considered if it were determined that a gap exists between what NHAIS libraries are requesting records for through Holdings Maintenance and what can be found on OCLC.
• Titles purchased by individual libraries through the Overdrive Advantage program are added to NHU-PAC and have a special note added to them to differentiate them from the titles available to all NH Downloadables patrons. These records currently come into NHU-PAC from libraries that are part of the NHAIS OCLC Direct Access Program.

It is also worth noting that NHAIS Services strives to comply with the OCLC preference for provider-neutral records for ebooks. Many OCLC cataloging records exist that are specific to one vendor, and thus result in many records for one resource. The goal is to have a single record for a single bibliographic manifestation of an ebook and to use the 5XX tags and the 856 tag to provide information on specific access. We are currently adding to NHU-PAC records that do not meet this ideal only if no provider-neutral record is available. As more provider-neutral records are created by the OCLC cataloging community this will become less of an issue.

"Past monographic cataloging practice required the creation of a new record each time a new publisher, aggregator, or distributor provided access to a particular online resource. Increasingly, the same monographs were becoming available digitally from multiple providers, resulting in many duplicative MARC records for online resources in shared bibliographic utilities and in local catalogs. Catalog users often had difficulty understanding the rationale or the subtle differences between multiple records when searching through a cluster of very similar records. Often the only difference in a long record was the presence of a different publisher/aggregator/digitizer/distributor in the Reproduction note (533 field).
In developing a provider-neutral e-monograph policy, the task group followed similar provider-neutral policies that had been successfully enacted by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging for online serials and online integrating resources. According to this policy, no distinction is made between the cataloging of online reproductions and online resources issued simultaneously in another format. These distinctions had become less and less useful and increasingly difficult to make. All online monographs —reproductions, simultaneously issued manifestations, or born digital resources—are to be cataloged according to the same guidelines." From Provider-Neutral e-monograph MARC Record Guide

Pictures, reviews restored

Tuesday, Jan. 8:  Cover images, reviews, and such are now displaying correctly when viewing individual records in the NHU-PAC.

Also fixed recently: the Directory of New Hampshire Libraries.  The disk space issue which caused an error when too many search results were found has been resolved.

Brief NHU-PAC searching outage Tue 1/8 am

There will be a brief interruption of NHU-PAC searching starting at 7:38 a.m. on Tuesday, January 8.  This is to install updated search indexes.  Searching service should be restored within 5 minutes.

Van update Monday 12/7

Hello librarians,

The van that covers the Southwest routes is fixed and back on the road today (Monday). Therefore all van routes are on schedule today.

We are still waiting for the new van replacement and do not have a timeline. So two other routes are temporarily changed. This means that the Friday Lakes Region route (see libraries below) is cancelled until we receive a new van.

Hill
Bristol
Newfound Regional High School
New Hampton
Meredith
Center Harbor
Wolfeboro
Alton
Gilford
Laconia
Sanbornton
However, those libraries will continue to receive van service, on their regular routes on other days, or by temporary drop off at a neighboring library. So please continue to send/return materials to these libraries.

Finally, the Wednesday Capital Route will continue to receive service, but we will be using our car instead of the van for now. Because of space limitations the libraries in Concord on that route have been notified to pick up/drop off materials here at the State Library.

This does sound a bit complicated, so please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Hopefully, I’ll have an answer!

Donna Gilbreth

Supervisor, Reference and Information Services

New Hampshire State Library

20 Park Street

Concord, NH 03301

603-271-2060

donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov

Pictures, reviews missing

Monday, Jan. 7: 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.

SW Van Route Cancellation, 1/4/13

The Southwestern ILL van delivery route is cancelled for today (1/4/13) due to, yet another, vehicle breakdown.  The van is presently at the garage for repairs.  Please be aware that the Monday route may also need to be cancelled, if repairs cannot be completed before then.

The following libraries are affected by today’s cancellation:

Dartmouth

Hanover, Howe Library

Lebanon

Meriden

Claremont

Charlestown

Keene

Marlborough

Peterborough

Wilton

Mont Vernon

New Boston

Goffstown

Dunbarton

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Diana

LR, CD van route changes

Hello librarians,
We have had a catastrophic van failure (and the non-delivery of a new van) that will cause temporary changes to some van routes. I hope this will not be for too long, but at this point I do not have a set timeframe. I apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
The Friday Lakes Region van route is cancelled as of today. The following libraries will not be receiving van service on Fridays. Most of the libraries will receive van deliveries on other days. I will work with the Friday-only libraries to receive temporary service at a nearby library. Therefore, you can continue to send materials to all these libraries, but delays may occur.

NH State Prison, Concord
Hill
Bristol
Newfound Regional High School
New Hampton
Meredith
Center Harbor
Wolfeboro
Alton
Gilford
Laconia
Sanbornton

The Capital District route is also affected by the lack of a van. We will work on providing delivery to most of those libraries via automobile. Some Concord libraries will not receive a delivery, but will be asked to come to the State Library.

Hopkinton
Bow
Pembroke
Local Government Center
Chichester
Loudon
Canterbury
Boscawen
NH Law Library
NHTI, Concord's Community College
UNH School of Law
NH Hospital


Donna Gilbreth
Reference and Information Services Supervisor
New Hampshire State Library
20 Park St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-2060
donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov