MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN

No. 03-12                                                                                                                                                   March 21, 2003

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In an effort to make the holdings on Dynix more regular, the previous use of all capital letters for the name of the subject of a biography will now be standardized to conform to the way we catalog author and title main word entries. For example, a biography of Harry Truman will now have the call number prefix and name “B Truman” instead of “B TRUMAN”. In a similar fashion, sound recording call numbers will be no longer be formatted in all capital letters. For example, a book on tape formerly cataloged as “BOT CLANCY”, and a music recording cataloged as “PTC  J2 BEETHOVEN” will now appear as “BOT Clancy” and “PTC Beethoven”.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Gates Foundation Computer Upgrade

The Gates Foundation has sent out the software for you to upgrade the computers in your library and you should have received it by now.

There are three upgrade options but at this time we’re only recommending two of them; full upgrade or no upgrade.  

Full upgrade will wipe the computers of all games and operating system and re-install the new operating system (Windows 2000) and the few games from Microsoft.  This full upgrade does not include Norton AntiVirus. 

If you have a computer, or all of your computers, that you want to leave the children’s games on, as well as Norton and the other programs, we recommend that you do nothing to update them.

We will be investigating the third upgrade option and may be recommending that in the future if it works as we hope it will.  This third option will allow your computers to move to the new operating system and maintain the games and software that you have now.  We have not tested this yet and that is why we currently aren’t recommending that option.

For libraries that have a content server, we are recommending the full upgrade on the content server.  If you are using your content server as an office or tech services computer, please give us a call before upgrading as there will be files and settings that you’ll want to save first.

Check out the new database on the FLLS Electronic Resources webpage!

CollegeSourceŽ Online features over 23,933 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format, representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

This resource was originally only available at TCPL on microfiche, but now is available to all member libraries via the internet. Try it out and let your students know that it is available from your library!

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