LINKcat News

News Summary (3/1/2025-3/31/2025)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 3/28/2025 See the LINKcat News blog post for information about an additional problem found when adding an "Enter" character in the Discovery Layer Note in a patron's record.
• 3/26/2025 The minutes from the March 19 DIS Meeting are available online.
• 3/19/2025  The minutes from the March 12 CMS Meeting are available online.
• 3/19/2025 The minutes from the March 11 CSS Meeting are available online.
• 3/19/2025 11,551 items and 1,645 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 3/5/2025 See the LINKcat News blog post for information about the moratorium on changes to existing bibliographic records, which starts Saturday, March 22.
• 3/4/2025 The monthly Bibliovation reports for February 2025 can be found online.
• 3/4/2025 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for February 2025 are posted.

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• 2/26/2025 18,698 items and 2,276 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.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.

News Summary (1/1/2025-1/31/2025)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 1/30/2025 The new Patron Category RB - Reciprocal Borrower is available for use. Details available in this blog post.
• 1/29/2025 The minutes from the January 14 CSS Meeting are available online.
• 1/29/2025 30,816 items and 6,788 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 1/29/2025 3,694 bibliographic records with no items attached (that were created before 10/1/24) were deleted from the database.
• 1/29/2025 4,409 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 12/18/2024 and 1/28/2025.
• 1/24/2025 The pre-overdue email notices have been adjusted to display the digested items as a list, rather than a run-on single sentence.
• 1/23/2025 The minutes from the January 15 DIS Meeting are available online.
• 1/15/2025 The minutes from the January 8 CMS Meeting are available online.
• 1/14/2025 Three new Collection Codes are available in Bibliovation: LPFIFA, LPFIHI, and LPFIRO. See the LINKcat News blog post for more details.
• 1/14/2025 The Collection Code ELRM (Electronic Resource Music) and the Shelving Location CS (Civil Service Shelves) were removed from Bibliovation. See the minutes from the December ILS Committee meeting for more details.
• 1/3/2025 The monthly Bibliovation reports for December 2024 can be found online.
• 1/2/2025 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for December 2024 are posted.

News Summary (12/1/2024-12/31/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 12/17/2024 The minutes from the December 4, 2024, IC Meeting and the October/November ILS Report are available online.
• 12/17/2024 17,249 items and 2,053 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 12/17/2024 3,318 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 11/21/2024 and 12/16/2024.
• 12/16/2024: The Purge of Inactive Patrons is complete for 2024.  34,635 patron records were eligible for purging, according to the ILS Policy, and were removed from the database this morning.
• 12/4/2024 The monthly Bibliovation reports for November 2024 can be found online.
• 12/3/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for November 2024 are posted.
• 12/2/2024 The minutes from the November 20 DIS meeting are available online.

News Summary (11/1/2024-11/30/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 11/22/2024 The minutes from the November 13 CMS meeting are available online.
• 11/22/2024 The minutes from the November 12 CSS meeting are available online. 
• 11/20/2024 20,379 items and 3,354 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 11/20/2024 6,518 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 9/26/2024 and 11/19/2024.
• 11/4/2024 The monthly Bibliovation reports for October 2024 can be found online.
• 11/1/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for October 2024 are posted.

News Summary (10/1/2024-10/31/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 10/17/2024 13,307 items and 1,462 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 10/17/2024 2,218 bibliographic records with no items attached (that were created before 7/1/24) were deleted from the database.
• 10/8/2024 The minutes from the October 2, 2024, IC Meeting and the August/September ILS Report are available online.
• 10/3/2024 The monthly Bibliovation reports for September 2024 can be found online.
• 10/1/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for September 2024 are posted.
• 10/1/2024 See the LINKcat News blog post for information about the moratorium on changes to existing bibliographic records, which starts Saturday, October 19.

News Summary (9/1/2024-9/30/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 9/25/2024 16,390 items and 2,066 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 9/25/2024 3,804 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 8/29/2024 and 9/24/2024.
• 9/25/2024 The minutes from the September 18, 2024, DIS Meeting are available online.
• 9/23/2024 The minutes from the September 11, 2024 CMS Meeting are available online.
• 9/11/2024 There will be a Bibliovation update on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 8pm. There are no release notes for this upgrade because it consists of a couple of back end fixes. For those libraries open at 8pm, there will be a brief interruption as the services are restarted.
• 9/4/2024 The monthly Bibliovation reports for August 2024 can be found online.
• 9/3/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for August 2024 are posted.

News Summary (8/1/2024-8/31/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 8/28/2024 14,437 items and 2,236 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 8/28/2024 2,849 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 8/1/2024 and 8/27/2024.
• 8/9/2024  The minutes from the August 7, 2024, IC Meeting and the June/July ILS Report are available online.
• 8/9/2024 On 8/7/2024, the ILS Committee approved the following recommendation from the Circulation Services Subcommittee "Libraries have the option to waive any fines/fees/charges older than 01/01/2010 for patron records with their library as the home library".  The Circulation ILS Policy "Fines/Financial - standard rules" has been amended with this change.
• 8/8/2024 On 8/7/2024, the ILS Committee approved the creation of an "Overflow" Custom Item Status. The status has been added to Bibliovation and documentation is in the process of being upgraded.
• 8/5/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for July 2024 are posted.
• 8/5/2024 The Bibliovation sandbox was upgraded to version 7.04 on August 1. The data was also refreshed and the passwords were reset for cybersecurity reasons. Please see https://www.scls.info/ils-development for information on how to log into the sandbox.
• 8/2/2024 The monthly Bibliovation reports for July 2024 can be found online.

News Summary (7/1/2024-7/31/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 7/31/2024 34,575 items and 4,258 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
  • This is higher than usual due to the annual deletion of items with problem statuses (Damaged, Lost, etc.).
• 7/31/2024 4,228 bibliographic records with no items attached (that were created before 4/1/24) were deleted from the database.
• 7/31/2024 3,835 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 6/27/2024 and 7/30/2024.
• 7/24/2024 The minutes from the July 17 Discovery Interface Subcommittee Meeting are available online.
• 7/17/2024 The minutes from the July 10 Collection Maintenance Subcommittee Meeting are available online.
• 7/17/2024 The minutes from the July 9 Circulation Services Subcommittee Meeting are available online.
• 7/17/2024 The Bibliovation upgrade was completed last night. Please see the Release notes for a full list of fixes.
• 7/11/2024 A Bibliovation upgrade is scheduled for Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 10 pm. Please see the LINKcat News blog post for details.
• 7/9/2024 Posted the updated ILS Policy "Placing RFID tags on items owned by non-RFID libraries" (approved by ILS Committee on 6/5/2024) and the revised "Guidelines for RFID Tag Placement by Item Format".
• 7/3/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for June 2024 are posted.
• 7/2/2024 The monthly Bibliovation reports for June 2024 can be found online.

News Summary (6/1/2024-6/30/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 6/28/2024 The Item Record Maintenance and Problem Item Statuses webinar has been posted.
• 6/26/2024 18,906 items and 2,264 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 6/26/2024 3,781 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 5/23/2024 and 6/25/2024.
• 6/12/2024 The minutes from the June ILS Committee Meeting and the April/May 2024 ILS report are available online.
• 6/5/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for May 2024 are posted.
• 6/4/2024  The monthly Bibliovation reports for May 2024 can be found online.

News Summary (5/1/2024-5/31/2024)

News (in case you missed it!)

• 5/29/2024 The April/May 2024 ILS Report is available online.
• 5/28/2024 The minutes from the May 15, 2024, DIS Meeting are available online.
• 5/28/2024 The minutes from the May 14, 2024, CSS Meeting are available online.
• 5/22/2024 23,032 items and 2,818 bibliographic records (with only withdrawn items attached) were deleted in the monthly batch deletion of withdrawn items.
• 5/22/2024 6,647 bibliographic records were newly cataloged and/or updated in the database between 3/28/2024 and 5/21/2024.
• 5/2/2024 The monthly Bibliovation reports for April 2024 can be found online.
• 5/2/2024 The monthly LINKcat.info and LINKcat Mobile reports for April 2024 are posted.