Updates and Unrelated Thoughts

The next Users Group Meeting (10 Jan 2008) will most likely be held at Spoon River College in Canton. They are very excited to host and are trying to work out the details to make it happen. If you have a large meeting room (75 to 100 seats) and would like to host a Users Group, let me know. I'd like to do 1 or 2 a year on the road if possible.

Next Monday Paul Santos and I go to talk to the State Library about their new OCLC pricing model (for new members) and other OCLC news. I'm working on a huge spreadsheet that lays out all kinds of formulas that they asked for plus many they didn't. I don't think they are going to move at all on their existing pricing for next year, so perhaps all the data they asked for is for the future.

RSA Cat (the website formerly known as EPS/Rooms) is currently without data and working a bit wonky. That is due to the fact that the 2nd data load is now being put on our production server. It should be up and working with the all the data we pulled from Carl (as of the last week of Aug) next week. Also the test server will be cloned to the new production server's data load on Monday the 24th.

After the test server is copied over and has all the latest data, I'll send out the instructions for checking your data again. I'll try to make them simpler this time, but it's very hard to write out the steps to account for every issue you might see.

There will be a marketing survey going out this week on survey monkey. Please take said survey to give us an idea of how many posters we need to produce and what you'd like to see, etc.

Database and Troubleshooters is meeting on the 24th of Sep at RSA HQ, East Peoria. We have standards for data entry in The New System to discuss as well as changes to the 949 tag format that will be required in The New System when entering your data in OCLC.