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Perhaps we could scan the entire volume of The University in the Forest (2002 edition) and place it on U-KNOW. The volume is Copyright John T. Cunningham 2002, BUT . . . 

• The edition is 21 years old. 
• The author John T. Cunningham has been deceased for almost 11 years.

This book should be scanned.  I cannot see any potential Copyright repercussions if full volume access is strictly limited to within the Drew Community, i.e. behind the authentication needed to get into U-KNOW.

Is there a way to display a PDF file nicely within U-KNOW? How about this?

UiTF2002_TrialRun_PDF_OCR.pdf

The PDF above is a 6 page OCR'd PDF trial case.  It takes awhile to load in U-Know, but this work for something in-house.

I find that searching for terms is more accurate if the PDF is downloaded and the user searches through the serach capabilities of , say, PDF-Xchange Editor.  Searching through the Google Browser with the PDF just up on the screen in the wiki did not work as well.

There is also the Fall 1992 Drew Magazine issue that celebrates the quasquicentennial.

Lisa is on vacation until the 13th, but she asked me to do some ebrary work.  I still don't totally understand what she asked me to do.

Guy recommended I simply do what I normally do.

Here's what I did today

• Updated Marc Records today at the partners site. It is taking awhile, that's for sure.

Results:

• Requested "Added MARCs" for "All Perpetual (163)" only.
• The MARC file I received was 0 kb, so there weren't any new SUPO or MUPO titles to load.
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Thread on June 28th:

If you go to the ebrary marc records page and look at the marc record download list, you will see downloads dated yesterday. I imagine that was everything, the bulk of it Academic complete. So the records are formated and waiting to be loaded into sirsi from the ebrary web page. I'm sorry to have jumped the gun on you, but I was trying to get the stats done before leaving for vacation and a comparison between last month and this month showed a difference of close to 3000 and threw me off. Will you load the records into sirsi and let Guy know he can delete the titles in the delete file?
Again, apologies for jumping the gun.
Lisa

>>> Matthew Beland 06/29/12 9:25 AM >>>
Dear Lisa,
 
I'm a little confused.  Are you saying below that you "Updated the MARC data" as of yesterday?  If so, then I won't need to do that step, right?
 
also
 
By "get the records from the ebrary site", are you asking for me to do my usual routine and just get/load the records for our collection of purchased SUPO and MUPO titles  (which is definitely not 2907 records) and not the Academic Complete ones?
 
I'm happy to do my usual routine or load all 2907 records, but I just need to know which one you'd like me to do.
 
I'll also gladly make a report about all 389 deletes, as per my standard practice.
-Matthew

>>> On 6/28/2012 at 4:37 PM, in message <4FECC085.F39 : 140 : 38251>, Lisa Miller wrote:

Hi guys,
 
Sorry to be a pest but I was trying to do monthly stats for ebrary before I left for vacation and noticed our total holdings were completely out of whack with our record download numbers. So I checked the site, and retrieved the records as of 6/28. There are 2907 adds and 389 deletes. Would you guys go ahead , get the records from the ebrary site and load the reports into SIRSI? I'm going to go ahead and put the 6/28 rocords into the monthly stats.
 
Let me know if there's a problem. Thanks,
Lisa

For Mulder Prize books and other special receiving books:

1. Mark cards in "Ordering/Receiving Instructions"  with the following: Please place card, copy of invoice, and this book on Matthew's desk for receiving.

For some time now, I have been intrigued with the idea of easily creating a list of ordered books that have just been received in Acquisitions.  People order books and they want to know when they're available.  How do we do this easily?  Sure, it would be great if my receiving them automatically generated a list that could somehow be broadcast, but so far that hasn't worked out.

Originally, my hope was to share list this with our patrons, but I realized that this was a bit too ambitious.  The main obstacle is that there is further processing that must take place after the book leaves my desk, and so it's really difficult to inform patrons when the book is on the shelf unless they've put a hold on it.  Furthermore, the library webpage already has a listing of recently acquired titles.  Why compete with that?

My slightly less ambitious goal was to supply a list of received titles to my fellow librarians, so they can have a sense of when the books they've selected to be ordered have arrived.  So far even this has proven elusive, because I was having difficulty getting our own library system to easily organize the data. But tonight (or really early this morning), I think I may have a found a solution: Zotero.

Zotero is an online citation management system that integrates directly into the browser.  It can quickly store records based on ISBN entry, and those records are pulled from WorldCat, the same database I use to load my records, and one that I trust.    Once these records are created, I can quickly create a bibliography and I could post this, perhaps here on this wiki where I have some permissions control.  What's most important to me is that this be quick, largely a matter of cutting and pasting numbers quickly, and generating a bibliography in a few clicks.  Zotero might just do it.

You can tell I'm still thinking this through and have yet to really try it, but I think I might be onto something.   

Rather than entering in data about work via the editor, I've decided to try this news item/blog listing.  Things I learn about the job qualify as news anyway, and I might also be able to share things with librarians  I see that the date comes in ok,