SUL NEWS NOTES - November 21, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1.  Hoover Library Makes the Leap!
2.  RLIN Availability Over Thanksgiving

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1.  HOOVER LIBRARY MAKES THE LEAP!

On Monday, October 20th, the Hoover Institution Library
began circulating materials online, via the Unicorn
circulation system. Among the many advantages of this move
are that "display circ" will now have meaning in Socrates I
for Hoover materials and, when web-based User Services are
mounted in Winter Quarter, Hoover patrons will be among
those who will be able to check the status of their
circulation transactions online.  On a day to day basis, of
course, Hoover staff will benefit greatly from being able
to conduct their circulation transactions online.

Congratulations to the Hoover circulation staff, in
particular Maria Quinonez, who led the effort to move
online.  She spent many a confused hour patiently trying to
understand Unicorn policies and how to map her manual
procedures to an online system. Naheed Zaheer and her staff
in Green Loan also contributed many hours to the cause by
providing the Hoover circ staff with in-depth training on
the Unicorn circulation system.

Welcome aboard, Hoover; we're pleased to have your company!

-- Submitted by Jennie Nicolayev

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2.  RLIN AVAILABILITY OVER THANKSGIVING

RLIN bibliographic and authority files will be available in
search-only mode on Thursday Nov. 27 through Friday Nov.
28, 1997.  This period of search-only service will allow
supplementary loading of RLG member, RLIN user, and
resource file data.

These functions WILL NOT be available Thursday or Friday 11/27 - 11/28:
   -  Input/update in the bibliographic files
   -  Input/update in the authority files

These functions WILL be available on Thursday and Friday 11/27 - 11/28:
   -  Searching in all files
   -  Input/update in the ILL file
   -  The Pass command in the bibliographic and authority files
   -  Printing in all files (including Acquisitions products)

Search-only service will be available as usual on Saturday and Sunday.

Service hours for these periods will be (Pacific Time):
Thursday, 11/27      12 midnight - 9:00 pm (no RLG
Central Staff support)
Friday, 11/28        12 midnight - 9:00 pm (no RLG Central Staff support)
Saturday, 11/29      8 am - 12 midnight (no RLG Central Staff support)
Sunday, 11/30        12 midnight - 9:00 pm (no RLG Central Staff support)

-- Submitted by Catherine Tierney

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EDITOR/PRODUCTION:  Maureen Davidson
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Lucretia Cerny, Catalog (lcerny@sulmail)
Grace Baysinger, Swain (graceb@leland) Liz Green, Reference
(cn.dat@forsythe) Donna Hjertberg, Cubberley (cn.dxh@forsythe)
Jill Otto, Falconer (jotto@leland) Riva Bacon, Music (hf.riv@forsythe)
Lois Sher, Engineering (cn.las@forsythe) Liz Wise, Preservation
(lizwise@leland).
COORDINATE LIAISONS: Elaine Cattell, Law
(cattell@leland) Suzanne Remington, Hoover
(suzyq@leland) Valerie Su, Medical (valerie@krypton) Suzanne
Sweeney, Business (ssweeney@gsb-peso)

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