LINKcat News

News Summary (2/1/2025-2/28/2025)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 2/26/2025 18,698 items and 2,276 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 2/26/2025 4,624 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 1/30/2025 and 2/25/2025.
• 2/10/2025 The minutes from the February 5, 2025 IC Meeting and the December 2024/January 2025 ILS Report are available online.
• 2/7/2025 Three new Collection Codes are available in Bibliovation: BAEA, BAEJFI, and BAEJNF. See the LINKcat News blog post for more details.
• 2/6/2025 On 2/5/2025 the ILS Committee approved newly released DVD, 7 day loan materials to be eligible for Local Hold parameters.  Read the blog post for details.
• 2/5/2025 The monthly Bibliovation reports for January 2025 can be found online.
• 2/3/2025 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for January 2025 are posted.

New Collection Codes available in Bibliovation

New Collection Codes are now available in Bibliovation:

• BAEA - BOOK/AUDIO-ENABLED AD - Audio-Enabled Books
• BAEJFI - BOOK/AUDIO-ENABLED JU FIC - Audio-Enabled Books, Fiction
• BAEJNF - BOOK/AUDIO-ENABLED JU NFIC - Audio-Enabled Books, Non-Fiction

These Collection Codes were approved by the ILS Committee at its February 2025 meeting.

The Collection Codes can be used by any LINKcat library. For a full list of Collection Codes, see the ILS Support Codes page at https://www.scls.info/ils/codes.

If you would like SCLS staff to batch change a group of items from an existing Collection Code to one of the new codes, please fill out the Batch Change Collection Code/Shelving Location/Item Type Request form, available from the ILS Forms page.

Local Holds: additional format approved and new Item Type added

On February 5, 2025, the ILS Committee approved DVD7 materials as eligible for Local Hold Parameters.  The new  Item Type DVDLH7 was created for this use.

 

This new Local Hold Item Type,  "DVD, Local Hold, 7 day (DVDLH7)" will be used for Newly Released, 7 day DVDs. This code has been added to the list of Item Types in Bibliovation. 

• The Default Library Circulation Rule "LH 0.00 fines, 7 day loan, 0 renewals, home holds" was created for this new item type.
• If your library charges overdue fines for these materials at your library, you must submit a Circulation Rules Change Request form to create a library-specific circulation rule charging overdue fines.

A reminder to all libraries assigning Local Hold parameters to their materials: Use is limited to new items and the amount of time these parameters can be applied is a maximum of 60 days.  Follow the rules located in the Linking Manual, Appendix I Local Holds.