We have just uploaded the Final R.E.A.D.S. report for the region for FY 2007-2008 to the FLRL wiki. To see the report, go to: http://flrlwiki.pbwiki.com/Regional-Reports
This free service is really booming, and downloads are increasing dramatically across the state.
R.E.A.D.S. is the Regional E-Book and Audiobook Download Service, a free service to registered library users of the member libraries of the Fort Loudoun Regional Library (and of the other eleven regional libraries). If you want to know more about R.E.A.D.S., go to the website at: http://reads.lib.overdrive.com
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Two new PLMI Graduates in the region!
Please join us in congratulating the two newest graduates of the Tennessee Public Library Management Institute (PLMI) – Aliceann McCabe and Steve Jacks. Aliceann and Steve graduated on Friday, May 23, 2008, during graduation ceremonies at the Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. Aliceann is the Director of the Audrey Pack Memorial Library in Spring City (Rhea County), and Steve is the Director of the Kingston Public Library (Roane County). They are now both Tennessee Certified Public Library Managers!
Noticed a difference in the IRIS catalog?
See the IRIS catalog at: http://www.fortloudoun.org
Following the migration of the Cleveland Bradley County Library into the IRIS Consortium, we entered yet another project for IRIS -- a process called "de-dupe and merge" of the database records. Over the years of the IRIS Consortium, started on November 14, 1999, multiple instances of cataloging records for the same title had occurred, for various reasons. Since we were already in "high mode" from working on the Cleveland migration, we decided to go ahead and follow it with the merging of these multiple cataloging records.
The de-dupe and merging of the bibliographic records took place over the last week of June, 2008. Our vendor found almost 60,000 instances of records that could be merged. We offer our thanks to the patient catalogers of the IRIS Consortium, as they had to 'cease and desist' cataloging while the process was completed. We hope that our database is now cleaner and sleeker.
Following the migration of the Cleveland Bradley County Library into the IRIS Consortium, we entered yet another project for IRIS -- a process called "de-dupe and merge" of the database records. Over the years of the IRIS Consortium, started on November 14, 1999, multiple instances of cataloging records for the same title had occurred, for various reasons. Since we were already in "high mode" from working on the Cleveland migration, we decided to go ahead and follow it with the merging of these multiple cataloging records.
The de-dupe and merging of the bibliographic records took place over the last week of June, 2008. Our vendor found almost 60,000 instances of records that could be merged. We offer our thanks to the patient catalogers of the IRIS Consortium, as they had to 'cease and desist' cataloging while the process was completed. We hope that our database is now cleaner and sleeker.
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