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What's New for Member Libraries
Posted by Angela Schneider
Winnefox Library System
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 4:11pm
What's New in WALS
Posted by Karla Smith
Winnefox Library System
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 11:32am
Salutations!
Today's Topic: Spring Housecleaning! aka Database Maintenance
Today's Tech Tip: Schedule sending an email
Just as one cleans out one's garden at certain times of the year, so I do periodic cleaning of our shared database and it is getting to be about that time. It is frustrating for patrons and staff to wade through search results with copies that say "Withdrawn" or "LongOverdue" or "Missing."
The obvious ones to clean up are all those items you weeded. You check out weeded items to your WD-XX user (ex WD-PO, for PoySippi), and that changes the status (Current Location) to WITHDRAWN2 which patrons can't see in the catalog. The next step is a report to move all those withdrawn items to a special, system-location of DISCARD. As I said, those are the obvious ones, but there are a bunch more. For example...
What's New in General
Posted by Keetra Baker
Winnefox Library System
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 1:24pm
By the end of June, three of our current electronic resources will be discontinued:
- Kids Search
- Searchasaurus, and
- Student Research Center
I have added a note on the Research pages regarding these changes.
