NHU-PAC maintenance completed Tue. 9/27 am

The September NHU-PAC server restart has been completed and the system should be functioning normally. As always, if you run into trouble using the NHU-PAC please contact the NHAIS Help Desk at 271-2141 or nhu-pac@dcr.nh.gov.

Brief NHU-PAC outage Tue. 9/27 am

This being the last Tuesday of the month, NHU-PAC servers will be restarted beginning around 7:40 a.m. The system will be unavailable for 10 or 15 minutes. This is part of our monthly routine to keep everying running as it should. A message will be posted when everything is back online.

Pricing on TattleTapes

3M TattleTapes may be ordered by NHAIS libraries through an arrangement with LYRASIS. NHAIS Services handles these orders and will bill you for the tapes when the order is sent. The tape orders are shipped from 3M several times a week, so orders can be filled fairly quickly. Current pricing (there was an increase this year) and details on placing orders are on the NHAIS Services Technical Services supplies webpage.

No NC van Tues. Sept. 20

The North Country van route will not be running today due to driver illness. Some of the libraries on the Monday and Tuesday routes with once a week service will receive a delivery later in the week. Today’s NC schedule can be viewed at http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/north_country.html.


Donna Gilbreth
Supervisor, Reference and Information Services
New Hampshire State Library
20 Park Street
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-2060
donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov

Spammy emails

It has come to our attention that a spammer has picked up nh library addresses, including the nhais-l and nhais-ill addresses and is sending messages to the lists that contain links to weird stuff. These are not legitimate messages and you should NOT click on the links. Just delete the messages. If you get email, or go on the internet, you should have virus protection which will help protect you against really bad stuff. These seem to be links, if you don't click them they shouldn't do anything.

We looked at whether anything can be done to block these messages from going out through the list. Because they are being sent as if they are from a legitimate, subscribed email address we cannot block them without moderating all list traffic. This is an option, and if the volume of messages picks up we may go this route. However, this slows down list traffic considerably, and restricts it to within the hours that NHAIS Services is staffed. This seems like an overreaction to a few spam emails.

Why not block the addresses we already know have sent them? We discussed this as well and decided that those addresses have now been used and probably won't be an issue again. The addresses in their address books may be the next ones to send spam, and that brings us back to moderating all list traffic.

David & I will be watching this issue and will change course if it seems needed.

No NC van Mon. Sept. 19

The North Country van route will not run today due to driver illness. Please see the schedule for the list of affected libraries (http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/librarians/van_delivery/north_country.html).

Donna Gilbreth
Reference and Information Services
Supervisor New Hampshire State Library
20 Park St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-2060
donna.gilbreth@dcr.nh.gov

Lost books wiki has moved

Over the summer Mary Cronin at the Madison Library moved the Lost Books Wiki to a new platform that she thinks will be easier for everyone to use. NEW ADDRESS for the NHAIS Lost Items List is http://nhaislostbooks.wikispaces.com/
The link in the side panel of this blog has been changed to this new address.

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