Archive for December, 2004|Monthly archive page
Chadwyck-Healey Z39.50
According to Chadwyck-Healey Technical Support, the Z39.50 interface is available for EEBO as well as IIPA.
EEBO, IIPA, IIMP, and PCI are all working now. According to the vendor email ABELL and LION should be available soon. [1/25/05 - jmr]
Fields to input
On 12/21/2004 we agreed to enter the following fields on the first pass:
- SUBSCRIPTION
- three required * fields
- free/subscribe
- If free, add “GUEST” in secondary affiliation field
- link to native
- z39.50 hostname if appropriate
- authentication if appropriate; generally formatted login/password
- cataloger’s notes (your initials plus notes for others)
- PRIMARY
- type
- status: testing or (if fully configured) active
- (resource icons would be nice)
- description: leave as metalib default; anne will edit
- SECONDARY
- alternate name if appropriate
- timespan (format: 1961-present)
- publisher
- copyright statement
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Library Catalog Config
In order to get the library catalog searches to work in Quick Sets there has to be an entry for “optimal” Search Type in Term Transformations. I just copied the “all fields” value.
UMD Flash Tutorial
Posted by Gretchen Hanson on the MetaLib list, 12/2/04:
We at the University of Maryland have developed a flash tutorial for Metalib to help our patrons understand some of the complexities of this system. We used software called “Captivate” which is fairly inexpensive and has a 30 day trial available! The tutorial covers most of the features of Metalib and SFX. Notable exclusions include loging in and “My Metalib”. It was meant to be a “basic” tutorial. It’s running time is approx 7minutes, but they are so action packed it will seem more like 3. 
http://itd.umd.edu/dbs/RPtutorial.html