Two items that may affect local workflow:
On Wednesday, December 7, several OhioLINK member libraries are moving their library system to hosted (off-site from the library) servers. This will result in their in their catalogs being unavailable for most of the day. The libraries that have reported this move are:
- Belmont College
- Columbus State Community College
- Hocking College
- Southern State Community College
- Terra State Community College
- University of Rio Grande & Rio Grande Community College
Beginning Thursday, December 8, nearly all OCLC services except Connexion will be affected by a 2-week project. Here is the news release from OCLC:
“As part of our commitment to expand WorldCat support for full Unicode characters and scripts, OCLC will begin a 2 week project on Thursday 8 December 2016 to re-index WorldCat for use with all applications and article-level records searchable in WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org. When complete, users will be able to search using full UTF-8 characters, resulting in improved, worldwide discovery of non-Latin titles and articles.
During this time OCLC members and their patrons may experience situations where non-Latin titles (particularly Japanese and Arabic) do not appear in search results when searching on non-Latin script data. Searching on Latin script data (if available) as well as identifiers including OCLC numbers and ISBNs will continue to retrieve the items.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience during this time and know that we will publish a follow up alert to notify you when this work is complete.”
