Journal records not indicating holdings

Once in a while you might notice that the bib record for a journal title does not indicate the holdings, so you have no idea what volumes we have.  This is due to an error in a program run on the old holdings field (090) a few years ago.  If you happen to come across a Gerstein serial that does not have a holdings statement, please note the title and let me know (please copy Meredith).  We are trying to get a list of the titles so Cataloguing can correct the missing holdings.  Thanks very much.

Carla Hagstrom
July 13, 2011

New in the catalogue -- Permitted Uses and Print on Demand

Two new options are now available in the catalogue (Endeca interface) --

1) Permitted Uses
All online resource records now provide information about their permitted uses under our licenses. You will see Permitted Uses icons on the hitlist, and more information about permitted uses on detailed records. Users are informed whether material from each online title may be reproduced in Blackboard and course web pages, and in printed course packs. The Permitted Uses information is linked to a page providing a permanent link to the title that may be used anywhere, and also more information about the title's license. A contact to request this information is provided if it has not yet been recorded in the database. Permitted Uses information is available through the Endeca catalogue, and also from the e-journal and e-resource tabs on the library homepage.

2) Print on Demand
Users may now order printed copies of selected online resources through our print-on-demand program. Some 220,000 online titles (out-of-copyright titles, scanned from our collections) now display a Print Book option, in the hitlist drop-menu of options for these titles, and also on their detailed records. Users may order a printed copy of the title through the University of Toronto Bookstore Espresso Print on Demand service or download a pdf to print themselves. More print on-demand options, and more print-on-demand titles, including recently published materials, are coming soon.

Sian Meikle
Dec 13, 2010

Library Shelf Browse

Library Shelf Browse is now available in the new catalogue interface. A news item, announcing and illustrating it, is linked from our homepage, here:
http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/news/online-library-shelf-browse

Key features include:
-- the ability to browse shelves at a single library, or across all of our collections, including our online collections
-- the ability to see all of our books, even those that are checked out right now

Shelf browse is available for all of our classification systems -- Library of Congress, Dewey, and the As-Is schema used in our Rare Books collections.
While we still have a couple of issues relating to accented characters to resolve, we hope that you and your users will find it useful! We'd welcome your feedback and suggestions for future development of shelf browse.

Sian Meikle
Oct 13, 2010
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NOTE: if the user selects a specific location (gerstein) the browse search results will not include online material

Accented and non-accented characters in the new catalogue

**The new catalogue interface now handles accented and non-accented
characters interchangeably for all character sets, all languages. This
means that we can now recommend it as a good choice for searching for
material in the Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Slavic,
Baltic, Turkic, and Finno-Ugric scripts. If a user enters either an
accented or unaccented version of any word, they will retrieve all
instances of the word in the catalogue, both accented and unaccented.*

(*As we've discussed, the new catalogue interface previously handled
accented and non-accented characters interchangeably for the Latin-1
character set only, which meant that it was fine for searching in west
European languages, but did not retrieve complete results for accented
words in the languages above).

Sian Meikle, May 11, 2009

Endeca Quick Start Guide

A quick start guide to the new catalogue (Endeca) interface, written for staff, is available at:

http://main.library.utoronto.ca/discover/staff_quickstart.pdf

We'll be following up soon with a second brochure for public use. This second brochure will be more suitable for duplication and distribution. We will also be embedding some help tips into the new catalogue interface (with thanks to Elizabeth O'Brien and the librarians at UTSC!).

As always, please let me know if you've got questions or feedback about the Staff Quick Start brochure, or about the new catalogue interface.
Thanks,
Sian
Nov. 4, 2008

Endeca Launch Timeline

I wanted to update you with a slight change that I've received for the Endeca launch timelines that I'd announced at today's Reference Services meeting.
As discussed, on Monday November 3, the Endeca interface will move from development to production (eg, the interface will be stable and fully functional).

However, from November 3 until January 5, Endeca will continue to be offered as a second alternative on the library homepages; the SIRSI catalogue interface will continue to be the default catalogue.
On Monday January 5, the default catalogue interface will be switched from SIRSI to Endeca; SIRSI will become the secondary alternative. We hope that by timing the transition for the start of the second term, it will be smoother for both users and staff.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I'll continue to keep you posted, and we'll update those dates on the home page as appropriate!

Thanks, Sian Meikle
08/10/2008

Check catalogue and e-Resources (EIR) database for books

When patrons ask if the UofT Libraries have a book, it is very important to check or advise them to check for wanted titles in the e-Resources list (via the e-Resources icon at the bottom of the Gerstein web page) as well as in the catalogue.

UTL is acquiring a large selection of e-books from a variety of publishers and making them available as quickly as possible to patrons via the e-Resources icon at the bottom of the library web page. Loading the records for e-books into the catalogue is a time consuming process. This is similar to what happened when the library first acquired e-journals.

Thank you.

Sandra Feb 2, 2008

How to find the date "ON ORDER" items in catalogue were ordered

1. "on order" items will show up in Workflows if you have the properties set in
Item Search and Display. Right click on the Item Search and Display button
to get the properties. Then click on the Defaults tab. Scroll down to the
bottom of the Defaults and make sure that "show orders folder" is checked
off and set to "all".

When you use Item Search and Display and you are in a record, you will see
the first 3 or 4 tabs and then ">>>" Click on the arrows to see additional
tabs. One of these is the order tab. You should be able to see the date the
item was ordered and its current status. [from refinfo message by L. Young, 8Nov06]

2. "... don't forget that there is a huge number of vendor records for materials which will be coming to, or have arrived in, the Central Library system which may only be found by using the 'search' feature of Workflows. These records are not displayed in the online catalogue. Many of our titles come automatically from our dealers, not as the result of placing an order. For a complete understanding of the order process one really has to use Workflows. [from refinfo message by S. Alston, 8Nov06]

S. Langlands

UTS Records in UTL Catalogue

University of Toronto Schools (UTS) records are now in the UTL catalogue. While they may not be borrowed by UofT library patrons, they are available for in library use.

S. Langlands
19 Nov 04