L&LR staff blog

I made the (deceptively long) journey over to the city campus of the University of Wolverhampton yesterday (18 Nov 2009) for the concluding JISC MOSAIC project event. I was without an Internet connection all day so wasn’t able to waste time contribute to the backchannel by tweeting from the event, so here’s my writeup. Interlude 1: [...]

A short and sweet expiry date update: I’ve updated all existing staff expiry dates to 31st August 2011, and amended the btype expiry table so all newly added staff’s expiry date will automatically default to that date from today.

Online (HIP) renewals are working again :-)

There is a problem with online renewals at the moment. The counter is changing when users try to renew but the date is staying the same. The lack of this function is basically caused by a bug in HIP which causes problems when a My Account sub-tab is edited. The Sirsi-Dynix team are working on this [...]

At the last meeting of the Staff Development Group it was decided that each session offered would be allocated a facilitator. The session ‘Advanced Horizon Skills’ is on the list and can be faciltated by Pam Young and Niki Rogers, however, to be able for us to write out a session guide we need to [...]

Chris L. and I have made a couple of changes to the way e-book links work on the public catalogue. I’ve put a message on the public blog about the most obvious difference – MyiLibrary titles now open up in a new browser window – this seemed to be something that annoyed a lot of [...]

8 week loan borrowers (staff; professors; distance learners; postgrad researchers; postgrad distance learners and work based learners) loans will start issuing for the Easter vacation on 6th February. Their due date will be 21st April. Pam

You may notice a difference when running a Horizon report, or doing the notices, in that there are now only 6 locations where there were previously 13!  The redundant ones were deleted from the Horizon_test database last month, and following testing have now been deleted from the live database. Hopefully this will make statistical reports [...]

Following discussions at Customer Service Group, and ratification by SMT, there is now a new borrower type available on Horizon of Postgraduate Distance Learner (PGDL). This btype has privileges of 8 week loans on 20 items. There are no borrowers in the PGDL category currently; and because this is not a btype that features in [...]

W elcome to issue nine of the Learning Resources newsletter “The Buzz”. Many thanks to all the contributors and keep your ideas rolling in! Read on…