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Yearly Archives: 2015
Implementing gradual fines in Aleph
Libraries charge late fines to discourage delinquent borrowing behavior which prevents other patrons from accessing material for their academic and research needs. While the Office of Library Services does not set the fee schedule (it merely adheres to it), the libraries have expressed concern that some of the fees escalate too quickly, charging excessively large […]
New ways to search OneSearch
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Office of Library Services added a handful of new fields to the search section of the PNX for records retrieved from the CUNY Catalog: MARC 5XX and MARC 250. (This was determined based on a survey OLS distributed to the Cataloging Committee and Public Services Committee in July 2015.) […]
Personalize your OneSearch results!
As of mid-August, OneSearch users have the ability to personalize their results right from within the search screen. (Previously, this was only possible from within “My Account” in the user’s personal settings.) What does this mean? Basically, users can provide context for their queries. The ambiguous search term “magnet,” for example, provides over 66,000 results: […]
Primo: Palgrave Connect
The CUNY-wide licensed ebook titles of the Palgrave Connect collection are now active in SFX and can be discovered in Primo. In SFX, 6,491 portfolios are active for all of CUNY in the PALGRAVE_CONNECT_EBOOKS_COMPLETE target.
