tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:19:41 +0000News from Copac — the UK & Irish National Union Cataloguehttp://copac.ac.uk/blog/noreply@blogger.com (Ashley)Blogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-6544435102732027725Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:06:00 +00002010-02-22T10:19:41.825Zdatabase updateslibrariesWe are pleased to announce that the holdings of the Royal College of Music Library are now on Copac.The Library contains a wealth of material, over 400,000 items, ranging from rare, early 16th-Century printed music to standard musical repertoire and from 78 rpm recordings to compact discs and DVDs. The collections of music literature include much rare material as well as all the major http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2010/02/royal-college-of-music-library-loaded.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-8449820937766599017Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:00 +00002010-02-01T10:41:02.692Zdatabase updateslibrariesWe are pleased to announce that the libraries of the National Trust are now live on Copac. This is the first time that the National Trust's catalogue has been available to search online.The National Trust owns 140 historic libraries, containing around 230,000 titles, generally preserved in the places where they were originally assembled and read. Many are country house libraries, some http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2010/01/national-trust-libraries-loaded.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-3006257387889763884Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:28:00 +00002010-01-29T12:30:58.970Zlive circulation dataWe are pleased to announce that live circulation data is now available for the University of Bradford's Copac records. This enables users to see, at the point of searching Copac, whether the item they are interested in is available.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2010/01/university-of-bradford-live-circulation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-3775130995423906024Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:10:00 +00002010-01-27T14:28:00.465Zwidgetssearch pluginsinterfaceThere is now a Copac search widget for iGoogle, enabling you to search Copac directly from your start page. You can choose to search:keywordtitleauthorsubjectISBN/ISSNResults will open in a new window, allowing you to continue working on your iGoogle page while your search results are loading.All feedback welcome!http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2010/01/copac-igoogle-search-widget.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-8866741020746949026Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:38:00 +00002009-12-21T10:45:34.271ZhelpdeskThe Copac office will close on 24th December, and re-open on 4th January. The Copac service will be available over this period, but there will be no helpdesk support. Any queries sent over this period will be dealt with when we return.The Copac team would like to wish all of our users a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!Photo by Ashley Sandershttp://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/seasons-greetings-and-christmas-closure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-3081429924369314614Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:27:00 +00002009-12-15T09:29:38.311ZmaintenanceThere will be no disruption to Copac on December 15th owing tochanges in the overall plans for the Mimas service hardware transition.We will let you know when we have transition dates in the New Year.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/cancelled-service-disruption-15th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Copac service)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-587415528571303040Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:27:00 +00002009-12-01T15:35:30.269ZmaintenanceOn Tuesday, 15 December 2009 (around 10:00am), we're moving the Copac website to new hardware. This is part of a major hardware upgrade programme in Mimas that will ensure we have the capacity and resilience to enhance all Mimas services.Most users should not notice the change. However, logins to Copac using Shibboleth may be unavailable for several hours during the 15th December.Please contact http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/scheduled-disruption-on-15-december.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ashley)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-6920904377840897800Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:23:00 +00002009-11-30T10:39:39.805Zchallenge funddatabase updatesWe have now loaded records for the University of Bradford's Special Collections. This is in addition to the records already on Copac for Bradford's Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES) holdings.Named collections include the Mitrinović Library, the J B Priestley and Jaquetta Hawkes Collections, and the Commonweal Collection. Subject strengths include peace studies; Latin American history http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/11/bradford-special-collections-data-added.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-2497297241086685894Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:01:00 +00002009-08-10T12:16:21.730+01:00interfaceenhancementsThe new Copac interface is now live.You can now search Copac quickly from the basic Copac interface, without logging in.Search and export records using the basic Copac interface, incorporating book and journal table-of-contents where available. You can export records directly into EndNote and Zotero.Logging in gives you access to a range of additional facilities, including:A personal Search http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/08/new-copac-interface.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-5266432839751421407Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:37:00 +00002009-08-03T09:39:29.940+01:00interfaceenhancementsThe new personalised Copac will be made available during August 2009. Thank-you to the many people who have taken the time to send comments and requests relating to the Beta interfaces. We've had some really useful feedback and we'll be following up many of the comments both before the release and over subsequent months.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/08/copac-is-changing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Copac service)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-6751402723232570774Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:16:00 +00002009-08-03T09:19:49.596+01:00The reload of the Imperial College London catalogue is now complete and all records are available for searching via Copac.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/08/imperial-catalogue-reload-complete.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Copac service)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-422149630947211868Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:17:00 +00002009-07-27T09:20:05.658+01:00database updatesWe are currently reloading the Imperial College London catalogue to reflect local catalogue changes. Consequently, c. half of the Imperial catalogue will be unavailable on Copac this week. It should begin to reappear next Monday but the full reload is likely to take a couple of weeks. Apologies for the short-term loss of availability of this material.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/07/imperial-catalogue-reload-underway.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Copac service)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-3877247736309211646Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:17:00 +00002009-07-06T17:31:26.707+01:00interfaceenhancementsWe are beginning a major redevelopment of the Copac National, Academic, and Specialist library catalogue service. The first stage of this work will introduce a login version of Copac with a range of new personalised facilities. Alongside this we will retain an open-access version of Copac.Building on the recent Copac Beta trial, we have two new Copac Beta trial interfaces.Personalised Copac, as http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/07/new-copac-trial-interfaces.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-4314857466683369501Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:50:00 +00002009-06-10T10:12:21.004+01:00A period of planned downtime will affect Mimas services and projects from 10:00 on Thursday, 11 June 2009, including Copac. We hope this downtime will last no longer than 2 hours.Mimas been working with Sun (our hardware supplier) to identify the cause of the fault that led to several Mimas services being unavailable during the weekend 16-17 May 2009. A potential fault was identified which http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/06/emergency-maintenance-11609.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-2361189844840317987Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:14:00 +00002009-06-02T16:17:18.554+01:00enhancementsWe have now drawn the winner of the £35 Amazon from the Beta survey participants. The drawing was conducted in a very low-tech manner by our colleague Jane Stevenson of the Archives Hub (http://archiveshub.ac.uk), who drew the winning email address from a brown paper bag.Congratulations to Kimberley Godwin of Aberystwyth University!Thanks again to all who took part.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/06/copac-beta-survey-winner-drawn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-2704928716323271014Fri, 29 May 2009 14:26:00 +00002009-06-01T13:20:50.370+01:00enhancementsThe recent trial of the Copac Beta interface has now ended. With thanks to the many people who took part and contributed feedback, we appreciate the time and thought that has gone into this. We'll be reviewing all the feedback to inform the way the new developments are taken forward in both the short and longer term.We'll be getting in touch with the winner of the Amazon voucher shortly.See 'http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/05/copac-beta-interface-trial-ended_29.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Copac service)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-1360573685669788657Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:28:00 +00002009-04-27T12:00:41.966+01:00database updatesThe reload of the Tate Library (Tate Britain) records is now complete, and up-to-date records are available for searching via Copac.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/04/tate-library-tate-britain-catalogue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-4484703262531953477Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:02:00 +00002009-03-31T15:05:13.671+01:00interfacesaved searchessurveyThere is now a Beta version of the Copac interface available for trial at http://beta.copac.ac.uk/.We're working towards making Copac a more personalised research tool and we'd love to have your feedback on the current range of developments. Try out the Beta version of Copac, explore the new features, then fill in a brief questionnaire to give us your views about the changes so far. In http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/03/copac-beta-trial-interface.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-2058710957090447390Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:24:00 +00002009-03-31T14:46:11.913+01:00librariesThere is now a locations map showing the locations of all the Copac contributors. You can see the map at http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/locations.html.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/03/locations-map-of-copac-contributors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-3083494244332184270Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:54:00 +00002009-03-13T12:58:21.581ZmaintenanceDue to a hardware fault, many Mimas services, including Copac, have been unavailable over the past few days. This fault has now been resolved, and the services have been restored. However, stability is not assured, and further brief outages may occur. We hope that these will be minor, and not greatly impact on the service.We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this unavailability, and http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/03/copac-unavailability-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-8102568166226947541Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:02:00 +00002009-03-12T09:14:34.705ZmaintenanceAs a result of recent hardware problems Copac is currently running 'at risk', as are other Mimas services. Emergency maintenance is planned for this morning (12th March) and Copac will be unavailable whilst this takes place, but it should only be for a short time. Apologies for this further loss of service.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/03/copac-at-risk-emergency-maintenance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Copac service)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-5691291597391935422Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:55:00 +00002009-03-13T15:53:07.361ZWe have developed individual information pages about each of the Copac libraries. These pages include information about holdings, contacts, access, and location, as well as links to the library's website.To access the pages, go to http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/, and choose the library you are interested in form the contributing libraries list.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/03/individual-library-information-pages.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-1070266805960329620Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:30:00 +00002009-03-04T12:40:06.197Zdatabase updatesThe reload of the Imperial catalogue is now complete, and all records are available for searching via Copac.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/03/imperial-catalogue-reload-complete.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Bethan Ruddock)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-6778489989420479744Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:08:00 +00002009-02-16T13:17:42.401ZmaintenanceAs a result of systems work done today, tomorrow's scheduled maintenance has now been cancelled. Thank you for your patience.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/02/scheduled-maintenance-cancelled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lisa Jeskins)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5431307827954252364.post-1034237845754268109Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:06:00 +00002009-02-09T09:14:36.093ZWe are currently reloading the Imperial College London catalogue to reflect local catalogue changes. Consequently, the Imperial catalogue will be unavailable on Copac this week. It will begin to reappear next Monday but the full reload is likely to take a couple of weeks. Apologies for the short-term loss of availability of this material.http://copac.ac.uk/blog/2009/02/imperial-catalogue-reload-underway.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Copac service)0