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Our new online
catalog is
not yet quite ready for prime time,
but it is ready for
you to try!
(On the Illinet Online page you
will need to click on the WebVoyage 2001.1.1 Demonstration link to
connect to Millikin's records.)
Beginning Monday July 15, 2002,
this new catalog will be the most up to date in terms of new
titles catalogued and books circulated, in that we will not be
adding any new transactions to the old catalog after that date.
However, we will retain the old catalog link as our primary
catalog until the new system is fully implemented state-wide,
later in July.
Two major pieces that are still
missing from the new catalog are the state-wide ILCSO catalog and
the direct borrowing from other libraries in the system. The
state-wide catalog is still available through the old system;
though as you recall, the only way to borrow from other libraries
at the moment is through the manual (paper) interlibrary loan
forms.
We hope that you will send us an email
message (refdesk@mail.millikin.edu)
and tell us what you
think, especially if you see something that confuses you or that does
not seem to work right. We can make changes! We are still tinkering with
the look and some aspects of the functionality of the new catalog,
so what you try today may not work the same way tomorrow.
You can have an impact on the new catalog!
Later this
summer and into the fall we will be offering more formal
introductions to the new system. In the meantime, the system
provides a number of help options to answer some of your
questions.
We are calling the new system
Millinet Online, a play on the state-wide name (Illinet Online,
the same as the previous system) with an obvious Millikin tie-in.
We have Susan Avery to thank both for the name and for the above
banner for the system!
You can look
at my May 2002 "what's new" page for what
it has entailed so far to get us changed over from one
all-encompassing library system to another.
Other news: The
list of titles newly catalogued in June
2002 is now available. Mostly
these are books we have been given as gifts, both from publishers
and from individuals. (Marsha Leach creates these lists from the
cataloging records created by Linda Chitwood.)
Also noteworthy is our progress in
installing stack end panels to our shelving ranges, see picture
above left. The panels were part of the furniture from Illinois
Wesleyan's old library. My first priority in obtaining the panels
was to make the stack ranges more stable, though the esthetic
improvement is a decided bonus! Ben Gardner is doing this work
little by little over the summer.
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