2016-01-16 / 6 Comments on Analytics: Getting to Know Our Users
Who is using OLS systems like the CUNY Catalog (Aleph), OneSearch, Academic Works, and this blog? What devices are being used to access our sites? OLS wants to provide these and many other valuable answers. Most of the OLS library systems have some built-in reporting ability. Unfortunately, these systems are separate silos of information, not easily related […]
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2016-01-07 / Leave a comment
As reported in an email to the CULIBS list yesterday, OLS is aware of and has been working on a temporary problem with the display of titles and other bibliographic information in some areas of the Aleph GUI and OPAC. Important to know: This is only an Aleph display issue, not a problem with the […]
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2015-11-11 / Leave a comment
Last week’s post about link checking describes one of the ways that OLS is working on improving access to e-resources via OneSearch. Another area of work regards e-resource records batchloaded to Aleph which are also available via the Primo Central Index (PCI). Because of the large number of duplicate records coming from Aleph, there are often problems determining availability correctly for […]
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2015-11-06 / Leave a comment
The Office of Library Services is pleased to report that we have completed a thorough review of 856 (URL) fields in our catalog. On Thursday, November 5, we emailed the Cataloging Committee members explaining how to access their school’s error list in the Aleph task manager and providing details about the results. Project Goals a school-specific report […]
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2015-09-04 / Leave a comment
Most links in our catalog are in the MARC 856 field. Many of these are added to the catalog by batch record loads, but some are added by catalogers. URLs manually entered in Aleph by catalogers will now be checked for errors as part of the standard Aleph GUI error checking procedures. This has been […]
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