NC van makeup route Mon 6/22

As you are aware, due to driver illness we have had to cancel this week’s North Country routes. We are planning a make-up NC route for Monday, June 22nd but due to staff shortages it will operate a little differently than usual. 

We have selected three centrally located libraries to serve as drop points. If you would like to drop off your materials at one of these hub libraries before Monday, we will pick them up. 

Additionally, if you would like to pick up your materials at one of these hub libraries, please let us know NO LATER THAN 2:00 PM TOMORROW (FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH). This is so that we can plan to bring your items and leave them at the hub library. Let us know which library you are using as a hub, and you will be able to pick up your materials after we’ve dropped them off. 

The libraries that have agreed to serve as hubs are: 

Colebrook  -- 126 Main St. Colebrook, NH
Monday        10:00-5:00
Tuesday        10:00-1:00
Wednesday   10:00-5:00
Thursday      1:00-5:00
Friday            10:00-5:00
Saturday       9:00-12:00

Lancaster  Weeks Memorial Library,  --  128 Main Street Lancaster, NH
Monday, Wednesday     1:00-4:30pm & 7-9pm
Tuesday, Thursday       9:00am - 4:30pm
Saturday       10:00am – Noon
*With advance notice the library director can be available to meet librarians. Contact Barbara Robarts 603-631-6419

Lincoln  --  22 Church St Lincoln, NH
Monday - Friday: 10 to 8
Saturday: 10 to 2
Sunday: closed

You may drop off/pick up your materials at one of these libraries during their open hours. 

Thank you for your flexibility,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
 

No CD van Thu 6/18; changes for Thu SW & Fri SW-A vans

Today’s Capital route [Thursday, June 18] is cancelled due to driver illness. Affected libraries are:

Hopkinton
Boscawen
Canterbury
Loudon
Chichester
Epsom
Pembroke
Allenstown
Hooksett
Bow
Dunbarton

Today’s SW route and tomorrow’s SW-A route have been combined, modified, and shortened into one Friday route. The libraries on these routes who WILL RECEIVE deliveries Friday, June 19 are as follows:

New London  
Newport  
Washington  
Charlestown  
Keene  
Marlborough  
Dublin  
Mont Vernon  
Weare

Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

No NC van Wed 6/17

Unfortunately, today’s NC ILL van delivery route [Wednesday, June 17] is cancelled due to illness. Affected libraries are as follows:

Plymouth
Rumney
Wentworth
Warren
Lyme
Orford
Piermont
Haverhill
North Haverhill
Monroe
Woodsville
Bath
Lisbon
Littleton
Bethlehem

Thank you all. 

Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

No NC van Tue 6/16

Unfortunately, today’s NC ILL van delivery route [Tuesday, June 16] is cancelled due to illness.
Affected libraries are as follows:

Whitefield
Dalton
Lancaster
Groveton
Stratford
Colebrook
Errol
WMCC - Berlin
Berlin
Gorham
Jefferson
Randolph
Jackson
Bartlett
North Conway
Conway
Twin Mountain

Thank you all. 
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library 

No NC van Mon 6/15

Unfortunately, today’s NC ILL van delivery route [Monday, June 15] is cancelled due to illness.
Affected libraries are as follows:

Conway
Madison
Chocorua
Tamworth
Center Sandwich
Plymouth
Campton
Thornton
Lincoln
North Woodstock
Franconia
Bethlehem

Thank you all. Happy Monday!
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

Linked data and URIs -- #7 Resources

Even if your library isn’t currently using linked data, it’s helpful to be aware of these practices, especially with the increasing presence of URIs in cataloging data. The posts shared here over the past 6 weeks have only presented some introductory material on linked data and URIs in MARC records.

Here are some links to more information on these topics if you want to dive deeper:

• World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) wiki on linked data:
  https://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkedData
• Library of Congress Linked Data Service: https://id.loc.gov/
• Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) URI FAQs
  https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/TaskGroups/URI%20FAQs.pdf
• PCC Task Force on Linked Data Best Practices Final Report:
  https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/linked-data-best-practices-final-report.pdf
• PCC Guide to Formulating and Obtaining URIs:
  https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/linked-data-best-practices-final-report.pdf

 

This is the final post in a series weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.

Van route changes this week

We are still juggling ILL driver shortages and van maintenance schedules, so!
Today’s SW route and tomorrow’s SW-A route have been combined, modified, and shortened into one Friday [June 12] route. 

The libraries on these routes who WILL RECEIVE deliveries tomorrow (Friday) are as follows:

New London  
Newport  
Washington  
Charlestown  
Keene  
Marlborough  
Dublin  
Mont Vernon  
Weare

Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

More Request Manager modifications Tue 6/9 10pm

The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly tonight (Tuesday, June 9) starting at 10 o'clock. This will allow installation of software updates that include further enhancements to the Request Manager screen based on feedback following changes made two months ago.

With this update, you'll see a larger font size on the Request Manager page and the red dots will go away, with the same "unreviewed notes" icon you see elsewhere in the program replacing the dots.

Users will now see a search box to the left of the display tabs. This will allow you to narrow the statuses displayed to those that include, for example, "patron" or "pending" in the status name.

Clicking on the Borrower heading near the top of the Request Manager screen will take you to the Borrower Requests list and clicking on the Lender heading will take you to the Lender Requests page. This saves a step if you're looking for a request but don't find it in the expected status. When that happened in the past, you needed to go to Staff Dashboard > ILL Admin > Borrower [or Lender] Requests to look for a title and see its status. You can still do that but now you have the option of going straight to Borrower Requests or Lender Requests from the Request Manager.

There are other changes you'll see only if you use the All tab when viewing the Request Manager page (but remember that the Active tab shows you what you really need to see). Statuses with a count of zero will no longer display as grayed out. Also, in the last two months statuses that are not used in the NHAIS ILL System (like ILL Review and Passed to Local System) have been included in the All display. These inactive statuses will no longer be seen.

SW-A van route truncated Fri 6/5

Sorry for the delayed announcement. The SW-A van route is shortened/modified today [Friday, June 5]. The libraries who ARE receiving deliveries today are:

Charlestown
Keene
Marlborough
Dublin
Mont Vernon
New Boston

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Be well,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library