The net is abuzz with the news that two US retailers have sent out some copies of the latest Harry Potter book ahead of the deadline (11am, 21st July, NZ Time) and are going to get the pants sued off of them…

Here’s a news story on it which doesn’t give any plot etc away though for Potter fans out there you may want to avoid the usual haunts for 24 hours in case the news media are tempted to spill the dirt because some papers (in the UK, US) have already published full reviews and including key plot twists and endings…

There is a flashing light over the 3 hour loans books. FM rung at 8.15am.

computer upstairs (libp3) is apparently getting recurring blue screen of death regardless of who tries to log in on it. I have e-mailed Library IT.

As well as the usual introductions to the IT workrooms, Janelle Blythe is running some very basic computing courses. Here’s the timetable

Harvard Business review are not recognising our subscription number when we try to logon to the electronic version. We subscribe to HBR through Ebsco, so I have contacted Ebsco about this. In the meantime while this is being resolved, there is an alternative. The Registry’s subscription number 431150093 gives us access. I don’t think we should make this number publicly available but it may be useful if you do need to access the e-version.

Rule: Reset PIN value is a repeat of the entire barcode e.g. CUF1234D. Note that with some ULANZ cards, the barcode characters are not printed on the card but may be viewed through Edit Borrower in the Horizon record.
Exception: If the barcode is longer than 8 characters (as may be the case for some ULANZ borrowers), then the PIN will be the last 8 characters.
e.g. Lincoln barcode 28150010754837; reset PIN = 10754837

Rule: Speed. Depending on network speed at the time, it may take a minute for the reset value to take effect. If in doubt, wait.
Exception: Report any exceptionally long wait to Library IT for investigation.

Rule: Login is not case sensitive
Exception: the ‘Old PIN’ entry when changing PINs is case sensitive. If you reset a borrower’s PIN, ask them to use lower case when they go to change their PIN.

The text for Stat 112 is “Australasian Business Statistics” by Black, Asafu-Adjaye, Khan, Perera, Edwards, and Harris (Wiley 2007)
We have only just been notified of the change so don’t have any copies of it yet. I have asked Collections to purchase some from the UBS for PSL. Hopefully they will be here in a couple of days.

Just a reminder – when you reset a PIN it will become identical to the barcode, including the CUX…..D. When logging into My Account, it won’t matter whether they use upper or lower case for the CUX – D letters. It might pay to demonstrate to the borrower and check the success of the reset in the process as sometimes we’ve had to do a double reset to get it to work.

Library IT have now added mouse overs to catalogue records. eg
Hover over the In Library status on books that are not on loan.
Hover over Due date on books that are On loan.
Hover over In Storage for items in Storage C (check Bib#: 141485)

Blackboard is now able to integrate seamlessly with Turnitin so students can submit their work through Blackboard and have a Turnitin originality report generated (this is seen by the lecturer only).
Students need a class ID and password which should be given to them by their lecturer or tutor. If Turnitin is not linked to their Blackboard course, students may need to logon to the Turnitin site. enter their email address and password, then their course password.

Help sheets have been created to help staff and students use this new feature.