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Technical Services Report: March 2007

System news and work completed

  • Lute will be unavailable beginning on Wednesday, April 4th for about a week in order to clone the database from Harp, test indexing with adjacency turned back on, and add the OWN code to the direct indexes. We will also be testing a new method of indexing (similar to indexing the Delta) to reduce the down time on Harp as well as, upgrading Oracle and applying the latest security patches.
  • The new PALS website was rolled out today.
  • Performed a global change for CTC to fix their NetLibrary records.
  • Performed a global change to fix the OWN code on the holdings records for three libraries.
  • Performed a global change for MTR to fix the first indicator in some of their holdings records.
  • Fixed the cataloger level on 30 records that were identified as edited by the wrong library cataloger and given a higher cataloger level so the owner of the bib records could no longer edit them.

Work in progress

  • Ongoing system maintenance and upgrades.
  • Ongoing installation of service packs on Lute and Harp for version 17 and ILL.
  • Attending Indexing Task Force meetings.
  • Attending Reports Group meetings.
  • Continuing to work with the UNIX system monitoring software.
  • Continuing to work on LibProxy.
  • Will be installing a test version of EZProxy as an option to replace LibProxy.
  • Continuing to monitor memory and performance issues on Harp. The problem is still surfacing, and we are working with Sun and Ex Libris to diagnose it.
  • Preparing to copy the base source code from Ex Libris to Lute and will be doing comparisons after implementing local customizations. Then it will be set up to run on Lute to see if the system performs any better with this version of the A tree. If it looks like this is running without problems, two parallel A trees will be set up on Harp and it will be moved to Harp to check whether memory and performance issues improve.
  • Preparing to upgrade to Solaris 10 and ORACLE 10G for version 18.
  • Continuing to perform weekly updates to the Authority database on Harp.
  • Continuing to report ILL and Aleph version 17 software problems to Ex Libris.
  • We’ve got their attention! Working with Ex Libris on a number of problem reports including the p-cir-77 process that deletes patron records.
  • Testing the Marcive loader.
  • Working on SQL reports and services recommended by the Reports Group.
  • Continuing to work on RightNow tickets.
  • Attended the first Discovery Task Force meeting at St. Benedict’s College on March 27th.
  • Working on setting up a secure ftp site on Harp for patron data.
  • Will be installing Wiki software.
  • Waiting for p_manage_18_p (record loader using parallel processes), p_file_99 (Marcive), and “golem” fixes from Ex Libris.
  • Waiting to hear from Ex Libris about problems with discounts and funds when using Blackwell’s Book Services Collection Manager to create order records in Aleph.
  • Waiting to hear from Baker and Taylor to enable MWW to order from two accounts.
  • Work on the file transfer from the business office and reformatting it for input to Aleph remains to be done.

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