The latest upgrade to Enterprise (the public catalog) included a new mobile version (not to be confused with the mobile app). When you connect to cat.lanepl.org from your phone or tablet, you now see a version adapted for those screens.
This came together quickly. We will begin offering our patrons access to Tutor.com beginning sometime next week. This is a special offering due to the COVID-19 crisis and will be available through June, after which we will determine if we will extend the service period.
The Tutor.com Learning Suite combines online tutoring, homework help, and test preparation with powerful diagnostic tools and self-study resources to provide a well-balanced and flexible educational environment designed to meet the individual needs of all learners.
There will be a webinar for Lane staff on Friday, April 3 at 11:00 a.m. If you are interested in attending, your manager can send you the details. All staff are welcome to participate.
SirsiDynix is upgrading Enterprise, our public catalog, overnight (Friday 1 a.m. – 2 a.m.)
After the upgrade, we should be able to quickly add RBdigital magazines, which will then be available directly through Enterprise. I’ve not seen this in action yet, but it sounds very useful.
I don’t like to do upgrades on a Friday but as someone said to me recently: “Everyday is Friday now.”
Our RBdigital Unlimited Magazines will be available directly from Enterprise via the SirsiDynix’s eResource Connector with the next upgrade, due by end of April.
RBdigital Magazines effortlessly syncs a library’s licensed current and back issues of eMagazines to Enterprise. Patrons can easily find, checkout and read digital magazines from the library catalog.
Enterprise 5.0.2 BLUEprint – RBdigital Magazines eResourece Central Connector Integration vFinal
We recently added the database GLOBAL ROAD WARRIOR.
From the publisher:
Global Road Warrior is the world’s most extensive country-by-country resource for learning about culture, customs, history, and language worldwide. Global Road Warrior consists of 174 Country Guides of 119 topics each. No other single resource covers so many topics, so well, for so many countries. (.PDF)
Hold redelivery is coming to the Ohio Digital Library (OverDrive), likely between February and April. The recent update to Libby that includes push notifications is meant to help alert you about holds as a part of this new feature. From our State Library Rep: What is hold redelivery? The downside of automatic checkouts is that …
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Our RBdigital Magazines Unlimited collection went into effect yesterday. Over 3,000 magazine titles now available: https://laneoh.rbdigital.com/
Using a hypothetical Thanksgiving dinner in which the invitees include Macmillan CEO John Sargent, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Eric Klinenberg, retired librarian Sari Feldman shares details such as the following to help explain the value of libraries: At my former library, the Cuyahoga County Public Library, in Ohio, we recently calculated the value of …
Columbus Metropolitan Library, in partnership with 18 other libraries in the Digital Downloads Collaboration, was the first in Ohio to join the boycott. Here’s a list of libraries/systems boycotting Macmillan eBooks. Publisher’s Weekly released an update on the situation in the most recent edition of The Week in Libraries: November 8, 2019: It’s now been …
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Our RBdigital audiobook collection now contains over 30,000 titles. Beginning today, all of these are available for immediate checkout (no holds).