LINKcat News

News Summary (5/1/2023-5/31/2023)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 5/31/2023 The May ILS Report is available online.
• 5/31/2023 58,069 items and 5,528 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
  • This number is higher than usual due to a bug preventing Withdrawn items with charges from being deleted getting fixed with the point release in mid-May.
• 5/31/2023 6,706 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 3/30/2023 and 5/30/2023.
• 5/26/2023 The minutes from the May 17, 2023, DIS Meeting are available online.
• 5/26/2023 The minutes from the May 10, 2023, CMS Meeting are available online.
• 5/26/2023 The minutes from the May 9, 2023, CSS Meeting are available online.
• 5/17/2023 The Bibliovation upgrade took place last night. New problems have been reported on the status wiki. Please see the release notes for a full list of fixes.
• 5/12/2023 A Bibliovation upgrade is scheduled for Tuesday, May 16 at 8pm. Please see the release notes for a full list of fixes. See the LINKcat News blog post for more details.
• 5/2/2023 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for April 2023 are posted.
• 5/2/2023   The monthly Bibliovation reports for April 2023 can be found online.

Bibliovation Upgrade, May 16, 8pm

We are pleased to announce that there will be an update to Bibliovation starting at 8pm on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. This update will require system downtime of about one hour. This release, 7.02.34, includes fixes to all areas of Bibliovation (except Serials). See the Release Notes for a full list of issues addressed in this upgrade. Some, but not all, of the fixes, changes, and new features are listed below.

This upgrade includes fixes that have been tested by SCLS staff and at some libraries. To the best of everyone’s assessment, the fixes are working well and any bugs identified during testing have been fixed. However, as we learned with past upgrades and patches, we may experience unexpected results following the upgrade. We may also discover new problems. We will use the Known Problems page to document any post upgrade problems. After the upgrade, please clear your browser cache before using Bibliovation.

High Priority Fixes

This release includes fixes for the following high-priority problems (these problems are also listed in the Release Notes):

• Check in: message about Item barcode not in system (API error)
• Offline Circulation timestamp off by 5 hours
• Caching/retaining search parameters
• Staff View of patron Reading Record - incomplete displays
• Selfcheck renewals by scanning item in checkout mode do not work
• Checkouts made from selfchecks have a timestamp 6 hours ahead
• Editing Item from Item Statuses page
• Bibliovation not retaining text of deleted Lost items
• Items with a Lost status (Lost, Trace, Missing) must be checked in before allowing checkout
• Account Receipt will not generate if certain charges are in the record

Changes and New Features

This release also includes the following changes and new features (these changes are also listed in the Release Notes):

• Patron Group functionality
• Proxy Borrowing
• Patron Merge
• Patron Delete

Requesting a Custom Bibliovation Report Procedure

Since Tim Drexler has joined our staff, we have formed an ILS Core Reports team consisting of him, Cindy Weber, and Michelle Karls.  We are working together to make ILS Reports more seamless and efficient.  We will bring in other ILS Staff to consult on various module-specific report requests.

 

We would like to remind staff that the best way to submit a request for a customized Bibliovation report is to fill out our online forms.

 

The ILS Core Reports team will all be reviewing the forms submitted for Item and Patron Information Report Requests.  We will be working on determining if it's beneficial to run them through Tableau or Bibliovation SQL. We hope this will speed up the process of getting reports out to staff. 

 

The links for the custom reports are available on the ILS Forms page: https://www.scls.info/ils/forms

 

Please let us know if you have any questions.