In observance of Martin Luther King, Civil Rights Day the State Library will be closed, and no vans will be running that day (Monday, Jan. 20).
Sincerely,
Jill M Witham
Van Service Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
A recent message on the NHAIS-ILL e-mail list has led a number of NHAIS ILL System users to check their contact info in the system. In the course of looking up the contact info, one puzzling piece of information presented is Days Requests are Processed. Depending on which way you view the information, it lists either every day of the week or every day except Tuesday.
You can also go to Staff Dashboard > ILL Admin > Search Library Information to look up libraries. Your Quick Links list should also include a link to the Search Library Information look-up.
I think we are finally catching up with the holiday deliveries. With that being said, I would like you all to look around your libraries to see if you have any of our overflow bins, and to please send them back to the State Library as soon as possible. If you currently have just the overflow bin and not a labeled bin please email me to let me know.
Thank you.
Best,
Jill M Witham
Van Service Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
I just heard from our north country libraries that the roads are bad up north.
In the past year, the catalogs of more than a dozen New Hampshire libraries newly became Z-targets in the NHAIS ILL System. Are you searching all those Z-targets? If not, you may be missing out on some titles in your searches.
Each username (like NHHSXXill) can save selected resources for searching. When logged in, check the top right of the screen for Your Account and select Your Favorite Resources.
If there's a minus sign next to "Library Catalogs" then your default setting for that login is to search only selected catalogs (which you can see by clicking the eye icon) rather than all available catalogs.
That doesn't matter for purposes of creating your lender list--the lender list build process does its own searching of all resources in the system once your request is submitted--but what if the item you're after is only found in a Z-target that's not selected? In that case, you won't be able to create a request in the system.
It makes sense to have the cataloging login (username ending with "cat") restricted to search only catalogs like the NHU-PAC--why bother picking from dozens of records that match your ISBN when most of the time you'll find a quality matching record from OCLC in the NHU-PAC?--but if you're doing ILL work, it's often to your advantage to search as many resources as possible. NHAIS ILL System usernames ending with "ill" or "all" should be configured to search all available catalogs by default. Follow the steps above and, if you find a minus sign, click on it to change it to a checkmark. Then click the Save Resources button (bottom right) so you'll be searching all catalogs whenever you use that login.
For widely held titles, you'll often see results from the NHU-PAC first while the ILL program continues to search other catalogs. If what you're after turns up right away, you don't have to wait for the searching to end before you select a record and create a request--remember that, once your request is submitted, the lender list build process does its own search of all catalogs in the system to determine where your request will be routed. Even if you searched just selected catalogs, that has no bearing on the locations in your lender list. Each library has a preferred lender list which determines the order in which a request will go to holding libraries.
Any questions? Contact the NHAIS Help Desk via e-mail or phone 603-271-2141.
Due to driver illness we need to cancel today’s Lakes Region Van Route (Monday, Jan. 6). The affected libraries are:
Tilton
Franklin
Bristol
New Hampton
Ashland
Holderness
Meredith
Moultonborough
Ossipee
Wolfeboro
Gilford
Laconia
Belmont
Bow
Concord
I’m sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.
Best,
Jill Witham
Van Service Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
Last week I covered the basics of the 007 tag and provided a simple example of how that tag is coded for a globe. This week we will build on that information and look at how the 007 tag is coded for visual materials.
Among the 4 valid type codes for the visual materials format (VIS) are:
Just these two types of visual materials include a wide variety of physical forms and consequently there is specific 007 coding defined to deal with the physical aspects and the accompanying sound characteristics of these materials:
Because videorecordings are what public libraries are most likely to deal with regularly let's look at the details of that 007.
A videorecording is defined in BF&S as "a recording on which visual images, usually in motion and accompanied by sound, have been registered. It is designed for playback on a television receiver or video monitor."
For example:
A Blu-ray disc, in color, which includes the surround-sound audio on the disc:
007 |
ǂa v ǂb d ǂd c ǂe s ǂf a ǂg i ǂh z ǂi q |
Note that the dimension code (subfield h) is "z' which indicates "videorecording width for which none of the other codes is appropriate." This is used for all videodisc dimensions since standard code values for videodiscs do not yet exist.
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Since this is the last Tuesday of the month it is time for the December 2024 Tuesday Tags Review Quiz.
This is a 4-question self-check that will give you a chance to see how much you have learned about MARC tags this month (or where you may want to go back and re-read).
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This is the final installment of the Tuesday Tags series. I hope you have learned a bit more about MARC tags then you knew at the beginning of the year and I appreciate everyone who took the time to read these posts.
Here is the schedule for next week van deliveries.
Monday, December 30, should be a normal delivery day.
Tuesday, December 31, van routes will be as follows:
North Country van route will be a combo of Tuesday/Thursday stops. Not necessarily in this order: Twin Mountain, Whitefield, Jefferson, Lancaster, Groveton, Stratford, Colebrook, Errol, Berlin Comm. College, Berlin, Gorham, Randolph, Jackson, Bartlett, North Conway, Conway, and Madison.
SE–A van route will be as follows: Barrington, Newmarket, Stratham, Greenland, Hampton, Exeter, Brentwood, Plaistow, Atkinson, Hampstead, Sandown.
SE–B route cancelled. Libraries that will NOT receive a delivery on that route are: Auburn, Derry, Windham, Pelham, Londonderry, Litchfield, Hudson, Nashua, Hollis, Milford, Amherst, Merrimack, Bedford, and Manchester. These libraries will receive delivery on Thursday, January 2, 2025
SE–C van route will be as follows: Epping, Hampton Falls, Seabrook, East Kingston, Newton, Kingston, Candia, Deerfield, Epsom.
SW–A van route will be as follows: Webster, Salisbury, Andover, Wilmot, New London, Sutton, Warner, Bradford, Newbury, Sunapee, Weare.
SW–B This van route is normally done on Wednesdays, but we will deliver to these libraries on Tuesday, December 31: Henniker, Nelson, Alstead, Westmoreland, Chesterfield, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwilliam, Rindge, Jaffrey, Greenfield, and Francestown.
Thursday January 2, 2025, van routes will be as follows:
Lakes Region van route, Libraries that will receive delivery are: Tilton, Franklin, Holderness, Tuftonboro, Effingham, Ossipee, Sanbornville, Milton, Farmington, New Durham, Barnstead, Pittsfield, and Concord.
North Country van route will cover the Wednesday stops. Libraries that will receive delivery are: Plymouth, Rumney, Wentworth, Warren, Orford, Piermont, Haverhill, North Haverhill, Woodsville, Littleton, Bethlehem
SE–A van route will be only as follows: Nottingham, Auburn, Chester, Danville, Kensington.
SE–B van route will be as follows: Windham, Pelham, Salem, Derry, Londonderry, Hudson, Nashua, Milford, Amherst, Merrimack, Bedford, Manchester.
SW van route will be as follows: Andover, Grafton, Canaan, Etna, Grantham, Springfield, New London, Newbury, Sunapee, Newport, Washington, Hillsborough, Weare.
Friday, January 3, 2025
We will drive a condensed Capital Route on this day. Libraries that will receive delivery on this route are as follows: Hopkinton, Dunbarton, Allenstown, Pembroke, Chichester, Canterbury, Boscawen.
All the other van stops should be back to normal.
Happy New Year everyone.
Jill M Witham
Van Service Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
I just wanted to remind everyone that some of today’s routes (Thursday, Dec. 26) will be different.
For the North Country, the driver said she will deliver the Wednesday and Thursday stops. I’m not sure if she will be able to deliver to all of the libraries on the combined route, but she’s going to try.
The southeast part of the state will receive their normal Thursday deliveries.
As for the western part of the state, there will not be any deliveries today. You all should have received a delivery on Tuesday.
If anyone has any questions concerning deliveries, please feel free to contact either myself (603-271-2206) or the Circulation Desk (603-271-2616).
Best,
Jill M Witham
Van Service Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
