Over a million records for Freegal Music have been added to the test catalog. Please email me if you find any errors or have questions.
https://lnpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/test
I am anticipating that we will have this ready to switch to the “live” catalog by August 15. We need feedback before proceeding.
Samantha Hankins began work at LPL as a Part-time Public Services Associate on July 26, 2019.
Chris Esposito began work at Fairfield as a Full-time Public Services Associate on July 25, 2019.
The Microsoft Home Use Program (HUP) for Microsoft Office has been changed recently. They no longer offer the full download of Microsoft Office. If you have already purchased Office 2016 or 2019, you should be fine.
As an alternative, they are offering discounted access to Office365. I have been unable to connect to the licensing center to configure this today, but I will send an email with details when I have them. It looks like it is going to be 30% off the $99 annual subscription. Alas, not as sweet a deal.
As of Tuesday morning July 23, Value Line has been fixed. Please report any problems to Systems, but I think we should finally be back to normal now.
We are working on a test profile of the catalog that segments print, digital and digital music. You can see it here. Your feedback is welcome.
[Postscript: reaction to this has been very positive and the main question is “when?” It is still in development but my expectation is to have it live no later than August 31. -CK]
We are pursuing this in order to join Freegal Music records with Hoopla records in the Digital Music tab, which will give us coverage of all major music labels. We have yet to add Freegal records, so you will not see them yet. It will also allow patrons who are interested only in e-audiobooks and ebooks to limit more easily.
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Lane mentioned in Journal-News: Excessive heat warning this weekend
The Lane Libraries will serve as cooling centers for the general public on Friday and Saturday. The libraries in Hamilton, Fairfield, and Oxford will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., which Butler County Emergency System Agency Director Matt Haverkos says covers the majority of the heat advisory.
Here is an inspirational story about the impact public libraries from our own Peter Bour (Fairfield).
I’d just like to note on the record that though PLCH blogged about Peter, Lane had the good sense to hire him first!
