The SW-B van route is cancelled today, April 15. The affected libraries are:
Nelson
Alstead
Westmoreland
Chesterfield
Winchester
Richmond
Fitzwilliam
Rindge
Jaffrey
Hancock
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
As promised, non-filing characters for initial articles in titles are now ignored in title sorts in NHAIS ILL System tables. That may not be evident when you open a table:
As of 2:15pm today [Tuesday, Apr. 14], 50% of our NH public libraries have submitted their 2025 PLS (annual report). Thank you!
April 30, 2026 is the PLS deadline. 17 days remain to submit your survey/report.
NOTES
For weird, unknown reasons, the LibPAS survey software has been really laggy and slow to calculate totals. In several cases it has refused to update itself even after several days have passed. To add to that frustration, sometimes the survey is lagged on the library’s end but when I log in as the State Data Coordinator and look at that library’s report, it looks fine, with all numbers filled in appropriately.
Why is that happening? I hope to find out from the vendor asap.
TIPS
1) There are Save and Recalculate buttons at the top of your survey. If your survey is lagging or totals won’t total, try mashing Recalc and Save.
The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly starting at 10 o'clock tonight (Tuesday, Apr. 14) to install program updates.
-When sorting by title in tables (as in Staff Dashboard > ILL Admin > Borrower Requests or Lender Requests), non-filing characters have sometimes been ignored and sometimes not. That involves an update last June which affected new requests but not existing requests.
With tonight's release, all non-filing characters will be ignored for a more logical sort of titles, with The Antidote and The Assassin of Venice appearing in the A's rather than the T's.
-When running the Lending Activity report under Staff Dashboard > Statistics > Activity and Request Reports, an incorrect Customer Code occasionally displayed in the LibCode field. This has been corrected.
From the NHAIS Help Desk mailbox:
Is there a way to keyword search the NHAIS Notes blog besides the Posts by topic list?
Yes, just look for the search box in the upper left of the screen:
Searching by month/year or topic are also options.
Seen on the NHAIS-L e-mail list:
"If a patron makes a list on share it and supposedly sends it to me where is it? I have not done this before but it would be helpful if this is a possibility."
Anyone, whether logged in or not, can save titles to a list in the NHAIS ILL System and send that list to any valid e-mail address. How users add titles to the list varies. On screens with multiple search results, click the icon under "List" for the desired title.
To send the list, users can choose the Email List button if visible. If it's not on the screen, click on the Your List icon in the upper right (just above "Login"), then choose Email List.
An e-mail address must be entered--let your patrons know which address you'd like them to use to send titles to you. The default subject line is "Session List" but that should be changed to indicate who's sending the list, which will appear to come from no-reply-nhais@librarycard.com.
The resulting e-mail, with "ILL request from..." entered in this example to replace the default "Session List" in the subject line:
The resulting e-mail, with a patron name entered in place of "guest" in the FROM area for this example:
The NHAIS Interlibrary Loan system runs on Share-It, a product from Auto-Graphics (now part of Soutron Global for those keeping score at home). The first contract for this iteration of the system was approved by Governor and Council in July 2019. In 2023 we exercised our option to extend the contract for a period of 3 years. That extension will conclude on June 30, 2026.
We will be going before Governor and Council to seek approval for the remaining 3-year extension available to us in the original contract. If they approve we will continue with our current ILL system until June 30, 2029. We will begin the process of issuing an RFP for the next iteration of NHAIS Interlibrary Loan during 2028.
Today we submitted the contract amendment documents to the NH Department of Information Technology which will review and (hopefully) approve them. This is the first step toward having the contract amendment on the agenda for a June 2026 Governor & Council meeting.
Welcome to April and the new Request Manager screen. When you view that screen with the All tab selected (which is what you'll see when you first view the page after last night's software update), you may note several statuses that are not used in our system and were previously hidden. These include the following statuses on the borrower side:
ILL Review
ILL Review Awaiting Lenders
ISO Messages
NCIP Hold Placed
Passed to Local System
Request Transferred
And on the lender side:
ILL Review
ISO Messages
Request Transferred
Of course, you can now hide those statuses and all others with zero requests by choosing the Active tab, which most users will likely find to be the handiest way to view the Request Manager.
Remember that Items Awaiting Trading Partner Response is now Awaiting Borrower Action on the lender side and Awaiting Lender Action on the borrower side.
How do you get rid of those red dots? See the second half of a NHAIS Notes post from March 24. You should certainly have a look at notes on requests in your Borrower Action Items and Lender Action Items areas. It's probably not worth your time to deal with red dots for requests in Complete status. Remember that all requests in Complete or Expired status are automatically deleted after 365 days in either of those statuses.
We've received feedback that the font size on the statuses ought to be larger and have passed that suggestion on to Auto-Graphics.
If you need further help with anything in the NHAIS ILL System, contact the NHAIS Help Desk at nhu-pac@dncr.nh.gov or 603-271-2141.
