Fourteenth Conference Call

For this call we talked about the Single Search product and how we will implement it. We decided that there will be some issues with how we authenticate users. It may be a combination of IP and user ID/pin numbers. We also need to know if we can have different versions of Single Search for the academics and school libraries. Resolver is the product that handles e-journals; we are not quite sure who this will tie into Single Search just yet. We also have to look at the databases in DelAware and see how they are brought into the catalog. We discussed the bib load reports. There were some discrepancies but nothing serious. Since this load had no work done on it, i.e. de-duping or authority, it will not look anything like our final load. This first load is only to provide us with the data to train on. The latest woes on the networking front concern Smartport our Z39.50 implementation. Basically it is not working right now. Also the production server cannot connect to the web server. This is the bigger problem as according to the firewall rules and the implementation of the three-tiered architecture there isn’t supposed to be any connection between the web and production server. This is just one more reason why we need to get this off the state network. We will be going ahead with the serials and acquisitions training in November for the I-team. Our project manager assured us we will want to see how these modules work and how they need to be set up. Our next call is set for November 8.