New Build and New Members!
Congratulations! We are 20% larger than we were a few days ago. No, this is not a Weight Watchers issue. I mean that we have added an iBorrow participant, and URSA/iBorrow now searches six servers instead of five. (If you count specific library buildings, it’s not as big a deal. I’ll let you do the math on that)
Palm Harbor Library and East Lake Community Library are now pretty much full iBorrow participants. They bumped up from Horizon 7.2 to Horizon 7.3.3 on Monday and came up on iBorrow on Tuesday and Wednesday. I think an appropriate comment is, “Wow!”
We and SirsiDynix are still tweaking various parts of the software to get everything working right. As of ten minutes ago, a Portal search would show their titles, but the ‘availability’ tab would show only the Location and the Due Date. By the time you read this, that will probably be fixed.
As other New Participant glitches emerge, we’ll pounce on them and fix them as quickly as we can.
And, speaking of fixes, SirsiDynix said in today’s Conference Call that the new build will be here tomorrow (Friday) and should have all the promised goodies. Except one. The ‘user friendly’ status messages in the “My Account” part of the portal go lost in the software conveyor belt somewhere. They’ll have to wait for the next build.
If you run into new build problems Friday, please let us know.
If the new build works wonderfully and makes you want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, tell us that, too.
Al Carlson