Events Calendar

  • Thu 3/22/2012: Workshop: CCBC Best Books 2012
  • Wed 3/28/2012: WRLS Board Meeting 6:30pm
  • Thu 4/12/2012: NAC Meeting 10:00am
  • Thu 4/26/2012: Workshop:
  • Wed 5/23/2012: WRLS Board Meeting 6:30pm

WISCAT and Searching Online Catalogs

by Charles Clemence

A lot of you saw my email about the WRLSweb catalog being available again for searching via WISCAT. Because WRLSweb has new catalog software it had to be configured so that the WISCAT software could read the codes and statuses in the new catalog and interpret them correctly. This allows the software

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THE CONTINUING SAGA OF WISCAT UPDATING

by Charles Clemence

In my last post I mentioned that the funding uncertainty at the state and federal level had put the process of batch updating in the WISCAT union catalog in limbo. Since that post there has been more news on that front. Unfortunately, it’s not good news. (Has there been any good

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LSTA uncertainty affects the Winding Rivers ILL compliance policy

by Charles Clemence

As I’m sure you remember, Winding Rivers has an ILL compliance policy for it’s members. This policy requires member libraries to do two things: 1) Update your holdings in WISCAT at least annually, and ; 2) respond to at least 90% of the lending requests that come to you. I’m happy to

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