MnPALS Support and Training Services: March 2009

Aleph

A global change was made to the To Date in the Subscription Record and also to the Subscription End Date in the Order Record for all libraries that use acquisitions and/or serials. This change was requested by the acquisitions/serials user group. The tech staff completed this global change on Sunday, February 22, 2009. The criteria used for these changes was dates of 12/31/2010 or greater was changed to 12/31/2025. If you have questions, please contact http://pals.custhelp.com
Conducted Version 19 Information Sessions on Acquisitions and Serials.

Conducted v.19 Information Sessions on Cataloging/Holdings/Items/Indexing. A recorded session can be found at https://breeze5.metnet.edu/p94006859/
A new answer 3289 has been created in the Knowledge Base for v.19 "How to move an item general retrieval file (ret-adm-01)from the alephe/scratch to a library's data/scratch directory".
Writing HELPs for v.19 Custom (priv) Reports
Plans are underway for the joint Acq/Ser/Cat Workday on Thursday, April 23, and Cataloging workday on Friday, April 24. The workdays will be held at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul. Watch for registration information.

Created a v.19 Course Reading and Reserves GUI Environment Data Review document and recording.
Conducted 3 sessions of v.19 Course Reading and Reserves GUI Environment functional training. A recorded session can be found at https://breeze5.metnet.edu/p82392363/

Conducted Version 19 Information Sessions on Interlibrary Loan.
The Circulation and ILL Steering committees are working on a combined circulation and interlibrary loan workday. They are looking for input from library staff.

We chose to remove the ACQ Request button that was appearing in the Web OPAC in version 19 until we are able to do some further testing.

Conducted "Systems Informational Session" Topics - Task Manager, Staff Privileges and Services Changes (Reports).
The ALEPH client is available for download by the libraries at http://www.mnpals.org/sections/aleph19download.html
Reviewing 'Job_List' for any changes that may be required by the libraries.

We have completed Version 19 Information Sessions. We offered 29 sessions. We had 462 enrolled attendees.
If you were unable to attend or want to review the material the recorded sessions and the accompanying documentation can be found at http://www.mnpals.org/sections/recordedsessions.html
We have posted a v.19 Go Live Information document. It lists important dates and tasks to be doing now, during downtime and at switch to production (STP) on v.19. It can be viewed by following this link: http://www.mnpals.org/sections/19golive.html We also have put this document out in the PALS Support Center answer book. It is answer #3239.

http://forums.mnpals.org/index.php?board=47.0
33 sites "Live" on EZproxy, we have 2 sites that are building their web pages and should be up by the end of March - PTC, CLC.
Working with 1 remaining "New" site - ATC - Server is ready - This site requested EZproxy training sometime during the spring.
Sites that went live in the last month - UCR.

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