Chip Kruthoffer

Ohio Historic Inventory updated and integrated with public catalog

Leave a Comment / Databases, Enterprise, HOWTO, Local Interest /

Brad Spurlock and staff at Hamilton have added all of the .PDFs for Butler County from the Ohio Historic Inventory to the public catalog. There are almost 2500 properties on file. If you haven’t seen these before, I encourage you to review them. You need to be aware of these when a patron is searching for the history of a home. You can search addresses or names of residents, e.g.:

Clicking the link will download a .PDF file.

The former home for these files, http://lanepl.org/ohioweb, is now deprecated.

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RBdigital magazine and audiobooks

Leave a Comment / Collection Development, Digital Services /

I am pleased to announce that we are dramatically expanding the audiobook and magazine collections we offer from RBdigital.

beginning in October 2019
RBdigital Unlimited Audiobooks – 32,000+ audiobooks
This includes the full digital catalog and new releases from Tantor, Highbridge, Gildan, Christianaudio.com and also includes Recorded Books‘ digital catalog. Always available, no holds.
Here is the current list.

beginning in November 2019
RBdigital Unlimited Magazines – 3,000+ magazines
This is a collection of all the magazines RBdigital offers – all languages.
Here is the current list.

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Problem searching Cummins and other digitized local history items

Leave a Comment / Bugs, Enterprise / Portfolio, Local Interest /

The addition of result tabs tn the catalog (Physical Items, Digital, etc.) has resulted in some problems searching for with Cummins Photo and other assets in “Portfolio” (digitized local history items.) We did not notice this in testing. I will be working with SirsiDynix to address this. In the meantime, if you are looking for Cummins photographs or city directories or any other digitized local history item, use ASSET SEARCH from the drop down menu on the left. We may rename this soon, but it will be in the same spot.

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Public catalog TABS test – Freegal Music added

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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.

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Microsoft Home Use Program for Office has changed

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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.

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Public catalog test – new tabs for digital

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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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