Kia ora koutou

From tomorrow morning we will begin replacing links to the old catalogue to the new one in places.  We’ll start with the library website links to Library Catalogue and MyLibrary Account and MultiSearch (this needs to be done by external vendors so not entirely sure when the change will kick in there).  Then incrementally approach links in other places like library notices/etxts, library web pages (e.g. instructional pages), LEARN, LibGuides, and many more.  We’ll be trying to use bulk/batch changes as much as we can to avoid individual staff having to edit every single one of their links – aiming to get as much done as we can before term starts.  This work will take a fair while and we will not be switching off the old catalogue until that is complete.

We have put out communications on Tū ki te tahi, Library News and submitted a post to Tūpono (hasn’t been accepted for publish yet at time of writing) about the upcoming change.  We are aiming to do some social media posts for students once more of them are back on campus too.

RE MyLists from the old catalogue – we looked into bulk migrating these across but it is just too complicated to do en masse.  The best thing for users to do is to recreate the lists via the new catalogue (it is much easier to do this there and also can just save the search itself as an easier alternative to individual items).  We should be able to do a workaround for people who have a lot of short lists (basically pulling out all the bib numbers from their MyLists and constructing a VuFind saved search link) so if you get queries from concerned old catalogue users you can forward them to eservices@libr.canterbury.ac.nz

Thanks for all your help and feedback testing out the new catalogue.  It is still very much a work in progress and a learning experience for our team and we’ll continue to make tweaks to it as we go on.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Systems)