NHU-PAC searching outage 11/24

Tuesday, November 24: NHU-PAC searching will be disabled for a few minutes starting at 7:40 a.m. This is to allow installation of an updated index. Searching service should be restored within 10 minutes.

Deduplicating NHU-PAC holdings

Monday, November 23: Attention catalogers: don't delete any duplicate holdings your library might have in the NHU-PAC today. A few times each year NHAIS Services runs a program to remove duplicate holdings and today is one of those times. The program looks for instances where more than one holding from the same location is found attached to the same bibliographic record. The most-recently-added holding will be retained and all older ones will be deleted. It takes several hours for this process and if, while it's running, you choose to delete the newest holding, it's possible that the deduplicating process will later remove the earlier holdings so you end up with no holdings attached to a bibliographic record when that wasn't your intention. By 3 p.m. today the process should be done and you may manually delete any further duplicate holdings you find after that.

Children's Book Review Starts Today!

Librarians are invited to visit the Children's Book Review, which will take place the week of November 16 at the Weeks Memorial Library in Lancaster. The Review will be open at 3:00 pm on Monday, November 16 and will be available during library hours every day that week until noon on Saturday, November 21.



Librarians may come and preview more than 300 new titles in children's and teen fiction and nonfiction. They can also select several new books that will be sent to them via van following the Review. The books that will be available at the Review can be found on the Children's Book Review page of NHU-PAC.



If you have any questions about the Review, please contact Ann Hoey at the NH State Library.

Brief searching outage 11/12

Thursday, November 12: NHU-PAC searching will be disabled for a few minutes starting at 7:35 a.m. This is to allow installation of an updated index. Searching service should be restored within 10 minutes.

Pictures, reviews missing

Tuesday, November 10: Enhanced content (cover images, reviews, first-chapter excerpts, tables of contents, etc.) which should display when viewing an individual record in the NHU-PAC is temporarily unavailable. This is the third time in the past three months that this has happened. We've reviewed the problem with SirsiDynix and are now working with the state's Department of Information Technology to track down the source of the problem.

Cataloging Report created in Contoocook

LC releases report on bibliographic dataThe Library of Congress released on October 30 the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. LC commissioned R2 Consulting of Contoocook, New Hampshire, to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with a primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability....Library of Congress, Oct. 30

Ancestry Library Edition

As Diana Degen wrote to the NHAIS Listserv on November 3rd:

I am sorry to report that due to budget cutbacks and the current economy the State Library will not be renewing the Ancestry Library Database for 2010. The current subscription will end December 31, 2009. We have renewed the subscription to HeritageQuest so that will still be available to libraries for both in house and remote use.

Because we are providing access to HeritageQuest any library that wishes to subscribe to Ancestry Library on their own will receive a 50% discount on the price from ProQuest. If your library is interested in subscribing to Ancestry Library Edition for your library contact Gary Katz at ProQuest 800-521-0600 extension 4075 or email gary.katz@proquest.com.

NHU-PAC Statistics Update

On September 1, 2009 there were 1,922,074 bibliographic records in the NHU-PAC with 5,967,837 items attached to them.

On November 3, 2009 there were 1,934,106 bibliographic records in the NHU-PAC to which 6,025,915 items were attached.

The NHU-PAC grew by just over 12K bib records and 58K items in the past two months!

NHU-PAC server being serviced Thursday morning

NHU-PAC's main server will be getting some new parts Thursday morning, November 5, starting around 8:30 and projected to take about an hour. We have been told by the parties involved that this work can be done as a "hot swap" and will not require the NHU-PAC to go offline but if you find you can't connect to the NHU-PAC Thursday morning it's probably related to this work.