May 26, 2026

new Undo Received and improved Undo Shipped

The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly tonight (Tuesday, May 26) for a software update starting at 10 o'clock.

-A new Undo Received option will be available to borrowers. Choosing Undo Received will move the request back to its prior status (Shipped, Recalled, Not Received, or Not Received/Overdue).

-The Undo Shipped option for lenders will be available for a longer time than in the past. Undo Shipped is an option for requests in Shipped, Not Received, Not Received/Overdue, and Recalled status and will now be available until the request is updated to Received by the borrower. When the lender chooses Undo Shipped, the request moves back to Pending status and the "Respond by" date is recalculated (lenders have three full days and a fraction of a fourth to respond to a request before it's automatically forwarded to the next potential lender on the lender list).

-When a request is placed on an item with only one or two valid ISBNs or ISSNs, the remaining blank fields for additional ISBNs or ISSNs in the request record were editable. This allowed the user to add invalid or incorrect identifiers to the request, resulting in a failed request. With this release, when there is at least one valid ISBN or ISSN on the source record, the fields will be read-only.

No NC van Tue 5/26--correction on affected libraries

My apologies.  I’m not running on all cylinders today. Today is TUESDAY [May 26], not Monday.
The NC libraries who will not receive deliveries today 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 for your patience.

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

No NC van Tue 5/26

Today’s North Country (NC) ILL van route [Tuesday, May 26] 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 for your understanding.

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

May 22, 2026

No SE van Fri 5/22

Today’s SE ILL van route is cancelled [Friday, May 22]. Affected libraries are as follows:

Northwood
Center Strafford
Barrington
Rochester
Somersworth
Dover
Lee
Durham
Newmarket
Portsmouth
Rye
North Hampton

Thank you for your understanding and enjoy this Memorial Day weekend.

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

May 21, 2026

Linked data and URIs -- #4 Example of an Authority Record URI

Here’s part of a record from the Library of Congress’ catalog for a work by Colin Murphy. Notice that the 100 field has URIs entered in subfields $0, $1, and $4. We’ll look at the link in the subfield $0 first:
 
image of a marc record
 
If you paste the link from the $0 into a browser, you’ll be brought to the authority record for Colin Murphy’s name from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service:

Murphy, Colin (Journalist)

You might notice that this authority record contains a lot of information not traditionally found in authority records (such as alternate markup formats). Some of this information is intended to facilitate linked data applications. Here’s the authority record for Colin Murphy’s name from the Library of Congress’ traditional authority file:

LC control no.: no2014111945

LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/no2014111945 (link opens in a new tab)

000   01100cz a2200241n 4500

001   9638516

005   20250804200623.9

008  140822n| azannaabn |n aaa c

010 _ _  $a no2014111945

035 _ _  $a (OCoLC)oca09942879

035 _ _  $a 9638516

040 _ _  $a TNJ $b eng $e rda $c TNJ $d InNd $d DLC

053 0  _ $a PR6113.U7667

100 1 _ $a Murphy, Colin $c (Journalist)

370 _ _  $c Ireland $c Great Britain $2 naf

372 _ _  $a Journalism $2 lcsh

374 _ _  $a Journalists $a Playwrights $a Screenwriters $2 lcdgt

374 _ _  $a Filmmaker

670 _ _  $a Somerville-Large, Peter. The Mount Street Club, 2014: $b title page (Colin Murphy)

670 _ _  $a The Mount Street Club book website, viewed Aug. 22, 2014 $b (Colin Murphy; journalist, film, and documentary maker who writes for politico.ie and various Irish and British papers) $u http://mountstreetclub.com/?page_id=154

670 _ _  $a A day in May, 2022: $b t.p. (Colin Murphy)

670 _ _  $a Amazon author page, Aug. 22, 2023: $b (Colin Murphy is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and journalist)

999 f f $i 522cb403-480c-4675-be7f-40dddc0f88d0 $s f11e8ed5-b846-4d88-85f8-b56e71fc7dc1

 In the next post, we’ll look at the “Real World Object” (RWO) record for the journalist Colin Murphy, accessed through the URI in the subfield $1

This is the fourth in a series of seven 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.