No SW-B van Wed 4/15 and more...

The latest from NHAIS Notes... No SW-B van Wed 4/15 Title sorts in tables Public Library Survey/Annual Report Update Brief ILL outage Tue 4/14 10pm Another 2025 Public Library Survey UPDATE

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The SW-B van route is cancelled today, April 15. The affected libraries are:

Nelson
Alstead
Westmoreland
Chesterfield
Winchester
Richmond
Fitzwilliam
Rindge
Jaffrey
Hancock

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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

As promised, non-filing characters for initial articles in titles are now ignored in title sorts in NHAIS ILL System tables. That may not be evident when you open a table:

You need to click on the column header to get a proper sort. Clicking on that header several times will cycle you through ascending sort, descending sort, and the default (which is...semi-sorted).

Until last night's program update, requests created before last June 25 included initial articles in the sort so, for example, The Da Vinci Code showed up in the T's rather than the D's.

As of 2:15pm today [Tuesday, Apr. 14], 50% of our NH public libraries have submitted their 2025 PLS (annual report).  Thank you!

April 30, 2026 is the PLS deadline. 17 days remain to submit your survey/report.

NOTES
For weird, unknown reasons, the LibPAS survey software has been really laggy and slow to calculate totals. In several cases it has refused to update itself even after several days have passed. To add to that frustration, sometimes the survey is lagged on the library’s end but when I log in as the State Data Coordinator and look at that library’s report, it looks fine, with all numbers filled in appropriately.

Why is that happening? I hope to find out from the vendor asap.

TIPS
1)    There are Save and Recalculate buttons at the top of your survey. If your survey is lagging or totals won’t total, try mashing Recalc and Save.

2)    If #1 doesn’t seem to do anything, close the survey and your web browser and take a little walk. Get a nice beverage for yourself. Play a couple games of hopscotch. Practice some primal scream therapy.  
3)    After 15 minutes or so come back to the survey, log in again, and see if anything has changed.
4)    If still nothing seems to populate/change/update in your library’s report, send me an email and ask me to look at it from my side. I might be able to kick it into submission.
5)    After you click VERIFY and get the coveted “Verified!” message, make sure you then click on the SUBMIT/LOCK button. This will summon the email saying, “Thank you for your submission!” and then it will all be over.

Thanks again, folks. You can do this!
Jen

Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
N.H. Department of Natural & Cultural Resources
20 Park St.
Concord, NH 03301
Office: 603-271-2060
Ref Desk: 603-271-2144
Jennifer.M.Finch@dncr.nh.gov

The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly starting at 10 o'clock tonight (Tuesday, Apr. 14) to install program updates.

-When sorting by title in tables (as in Staff Dashboard > ILL Admin > Borrower Requests or Lender Requests), non-filing characters have sometimes been ignored and sometimes not. That involves an update last June which affected new requests but not existing requests.

With tonight's release, all non-filing characters will be ignored for a more logical sort of titles, with The Antidote and The Assassin of Venice appearing in the A's rather than the T's.

-When running the Lending Activity report under Staff Dashboard > Statistics > Activity and Request Reports, an incorrect Customer Code occasionally displayed in the LibCode field. This has been corrected.