Reporting problems with A-Z list

Thanks to Lea for sharing this information - it's the kind of thing I often need and often forget, so am putting it here.  Interns are welcome to use this procedure also.   If it has been posted previously, it is a good refresher.

 

Here's a decision tree.  If you know of a central place where you'd like this posted, please let me know.

If the A to Z journal list has an online journal/newspaper/magazine title with the wrong dates mentioned in the summary or the link goes to the wrong page, start with Beth Bernhardt.  OCLC doesn't allow us to edit the date summaries that they list for our online journals, which is obviously a huge problem, but Beth could at least report it.

If the A to Z journal list is missing a print journal/magazine/newspaper title that we own, please let Katherine Nunnally know and she'll work on it.

If you find an ebook problem in the catalog - a full text link is going to the wrong ebook title, or the catalog record says that we own an ebook but there's no full text link or vice versa, contact Marcie Burton.

Obviously there's no immediate prospect of a full time position devoted to electronic resources librarian (a new Beth B.) and our current Beth B is stretched pretty thin, but if you are ever unsure of whom to contact about electronic subscriptions and collections, start with Beth.  

Thanks,
Lea

Searching journal A-Z list

A quick searching tip - the journal A-Z list is VERY inflexible in searching.  If you leave a word out of the full journal title, you won't retrieve it.  So searching for Journal of  American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will NOT pull up the actual title Journal of THE American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  The list allows virtually no keyword searching UNLESS you switch the drop down menu right under the search box from "STARTS with"  to "Match all words" or "Match any word".  For interns in particular,  take a look and be very careful before telling someone we don't have a title.  I'm not sure if it's possible to change the default on the search, but I'll check into that. 

WMS Implementation - local notes and Journals list

From Mary Jane.  Two exciting developments:

Now you can see our local notes in World Cat Local.
To see an example of this search gift and magid in the search box of WCL
Select a title, not availability, but the title

Scroll down to where it says UNCG University Libraries notes:
You will see the notes that we decided were important for library users to see.  You will often see double content notes which is unfortunate but it was all or nothing and sometimes we had enhanced or added contents so a decision was make to always display our content notes.

All of our currently received periodicals are now in Knowledge Base which means patrons will discover them in the A-Z list - NOTE from Mary the title for this list is supposed to change from A-Z e-Journal list TO Journals A-Z list because it will also include print titles.  Journal Finder is growing increasingly out of date and will be replaced when the list in the red box is more up to date on print holdings. 

This is not as elegant a solution as we might desire but hopefully a step in the right direction.   Some currently received titles may have fallen through the cracks so if you find a title like that report it to me. In the coming weeks with the help of Reference and Instructional Services, many in Cataloging will be inputting bound periodical holdings in Knowledge Base so it more closely matches what is in Journal Finder

These two improvements could not have come about without the dedicated work of many in Cataloging, Acquisitions/Serials and Beth Bernhardt and Terry's help.  Hope you enjoy these improvements.  Stay tune for more announcements as we migrate over.