No NC van Mon 6/15 and more...

The latest from NHAIS Notes... No NC van Mon 6/15 Linked data and URIs -- #7 Resources Van route changes this week More Request Manager modifications Tue 6/9 10pm SW-A van route truncated Fri 6/5

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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

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.

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

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.

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