With Christmas right around the corner I’m curious about what hours everyone will have. Will you be closed the day before Christmas, or the day after? If you would all be so kind as to send me your plans for times you will be closed, so we can plan accordingly, I would like to have all the information by December 19, 2025. Thank you.
The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly starting at 10 o'clock tonight (Tuesday, Dec. 9). This outage is for system maintenance and no new features will be introduced. Expected downtime is about 15 minutes.
Libraries that maintain holdings in the NHU-PAC and send files to Auto-Graphics to add and delete holdings should note that files sent between December 12 and 25 will not be processed until after that period. This processing pause does not affect libraries that maintain NHU-PAC holdings directly in the NHAIS ILL System using the Add Locations, Edit Locations, or Delete Locations buttons.
We need to cancel today’s [Friday, Dec. 5] southeast van route due to driver illness. We will have a makeup route scheduled for the missed libraries on Monday, December 8, 2025. The following libraries will receive delivery on Monday:
Northwood
Center Strafford
Barrington
Rochester
Somersworth
Dover
Lee
Durham
Newmarket
Portsmouth
Rye
North Hampton
Best,
Jill M Witham
Van Service Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
With the short week that we had last week due to the holiday and the storm yesterday, our routes are already very heavy. I am sorry but we will not be able to have any make-up routes this time. As the winter/holiday season is upon us, we may not always be able to do make-up routes. It takes a lot of planning and scheduling to make that happen.
If you have items that can wait to be returned, try to hold off and not send everything all at the same time. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Best,
Jill M Witham
Van Service Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
New Hampshire Department of Natural & Cultural Resources
20 Park St.
Concord,NH 03301
603 271-2206
Jill.m.witham@dncr.nh.gov
I want to let all of you know that if your parking lots and walkways are not cleared of snow and ice, we will not be able to make our deliveries. If you are expecting a delivery after a storm and have not received it that is probably why. The safety of our drivers and vehicles are very important.
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 9:54 a.m.: Our North Country driver is turning back due to the weather. The following stops will not receive delivery today.
Errol
WMCC - Berlin
Berlin
Gorham
Jefferson
Randolph
Jackson
Bartlett
North Conway
Conway
Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch, MSLIS
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 9:08 a.m.: Four out of five ILL vans have been cancelled today due to the weather. We haven’t had definite confirmation from our North Country driver yet, but we should hear soon.
Stay safe!
Jennifer M. Finch, MSLIS
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
Back in October we sent out a survey to gather input on MARC record use in NH libraries. Thank you to everyone who responded to that survey!
We have compiled the results and will use this data to inform our research into what the next step will be for NHAIS cataloging resources. We hope to have a plan in place at the start of the new year.
