On Friday 3 December 2010, we will be migrating our cataloguing system’s production database to a new server. This is part of our cyclical hardware replacement regime. As a result of this change, there will be a necessary downtime of more…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Cataloguing service unavailability
New LADD email alert – Not Found as Cited
A new email alert, as the Requester (Borrower) is now available. Not Found as Cited alerts you when your request has been actioned as Answer Non Supply with a reason of Not Found as Cited. Email alerts involve the sending more…
New options for downloading OCLC records from 17 November
In late August, Libraries Australia put in a change to the Z-Gateway, to improve the importing of non-Roman scripts from OCLC WorldCat. As part of this change, the record character set returned from OCLC via the Z-Gateway was in Unicode more…
LADD – please check your Own Services
Following the LADD upgrade earlier this year, all existing Own Services that had a value of ‘Wildcard’ as the Service Level were displaying a blank value. This issue was resolved in August when ‘ Wildcard’ was added back to the more…
Milestone reached – 100 ISO ILL sites now interoperating with LADD
We are pleased to announce that a major milestone was reached last Thursday, 11 November 2010, when Hobsons Bay Libraries became the 100th ISO ILL library to begin interoperating with the LADD. Hobsons Bay Libraries, uses the VDX system and more…
Read the latest Advisory Committee meeting papers
Papers presented at the LAAC meeting held on 19 October 2010 are now available on our Advisory Committee papers & previous meetings page. They include: 2009/2010 Annual Report OCLC APRC Membership Conference paper Resource Sharing Manifesto The minutes of the more…
2010 Forum – powerpoints, podcasts & photos available now
For those that were unable to attend the 2010 Forum recently held in Canberra (and for anyone else for that matter), we have made powerpoints & podcasts of the presentations available on the 2010 Forum program page. A selection of more…
LADD – new RSS feed for members & suspensions directory
We are pleased to announce that the LADD members & suspensions directory now has a RSS feed. This RSS feed lists all changes that appear on the LADD members & suspensions directory, including when a site becomes suspended or unsuspended, more…
