How to change Millennium/OSCAR 2nd layer login password

• There are two layers of login to Millennium/OSCAR. The 1st layer of login is shared within a unit (e.g. for Cataloging it is catmt1 etc.) The 2nd layer of login is individually specified. When a new staff is given access to Millennium/OSCAR, he/she is assigned an initial (staff identified as uxxx and student staffers as zuxxxa) with a common default password.
• To change the default password to something individually specified, we need to use Powerterm to OSCAR, a command driven program.
• Have the staff open Powerterm located on the desktop. Login in with “cats1″ and the same 1st layer password used to log into Millennium.
• Once logged in on Powerterm, use commands M-I-(log in with the default password)-P (for Changing password)
• Make sure to keep a back-up of the new password, save and use the Space bar to finish the process, and quit the system.
• Test the new password on Millennium

Millennium Creat List, a.k.a. Boolean Search

Operation keys:
Double click in a cell will open a window for choosing values. Tab key will move to another cell. Enter key will set the cell value.

11-28-2011
Find out how many bib records created with a certain cataloger’s code in a range of time.

[strategies]

• Estimate a beginning bib number, so not to search the entire bib ranges. Though there is a back-up file for the latest bibs*, the easiest (and sufficient) way is to estimate by using a recent bib number we know. For example, we know a recent bib is B69797511, we can estimate a beginning bib number as B6700000a — Note, it has to be 7 digits plus an “a” at the end.
• Use the “Between” condition (key w). This is more sufficient because the search strategy has only two lines. Alternatively, we can also use “greater & equal than” and “less & equal than”, this will make a three line search strategy.
• Use the “MARC tag” for 910 (cataloger’s code).

Examples,
2 line strategy

3 line strategy


* To locate the last Bib and Item records numbers on OSCAR:
Library homepage — Library Units — Information Technology Division — OSCAR Systems (requires ostaff login) — the file (in Word)

07-14-2008
Goal: To find out how many bib records were created by xx8 during time period from June 2007 to June 2008.

Operator	Type	Field	Condition	Value A	Value B
[empty cell]	BIBLIOGRAPHIC	CAT DATE	greater than	05-30-2007	–
AND	BILIOGRAPHIC	CAT DATE	less than	07-01-2008	–
AND	BILIOGRAPHIC	MARC Tag (910)	has	xx8	[empty cell]

Operator Type Field Condition Value A Value B
——– BIB CAT DATE greater than 05-30-2007
AND —-BIB CAT DATE less than 07-01-2008
AND —-BIB MARC Tag … has xx8