Can a CAT Change its spots

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Can a CAT Change its spots?

• INFOhio's New OPAC

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• The new OPAC interface, the CAT replacement was
  available last year in a test version this
  product is still under development
• INFOhio has been and continues to maintain a
  feedback site for our users suggestions made
  here are vetted by the moderator Karen Coy -
  and is then passed on to the development team
• A coding problem, found just last week, was
  determined to be causing slowness at many ITC's
  was found and fixed last week.
• If you have experienced poor response time this
  week, please report the problem details to your
  INFOhio provider.

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Work-Around for response issues.

• For classroom instruction settingson your first
  search, encourage your students to be patient and
  not press additional buttons. The launching of
  multiple first searches takes CAT awhile to
  process
• For research instruction consider using the
  Library Catalog feature in SchoolRooms coming
  this Fall stay tuned!
• For lower grades encourage the use of Cat Jr.

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Most requested change with the new release

• Users would like the holdings to display in the
  brief listincluding
• Call Number
• Status
• Item Type
• Material Type Icon
• This work on this is currently underway

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• You are encouraged to post your comments, desires
  and opinions to the INFOhio OPAC feedback site

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A note about PIN numbers. If your student data
is loaded by the automatic patron updating
process the PIN's will be automatically
populated. If you send a file to your ITC that
is manually loaded, the PIN field will only be
populated if your data includes the student
birthday. Your INFOhio support person can
populate the PIN field for you or you can
manually change the PIN by using the Modify User
Wizard in WorkFlows. An override password is
required.
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• My account can turned on or off by building
• You can run a master list of patron barcode
  numbers and/or Alt ID numbers and PIN's using the
  INFOhio PAT Patron List report I recommend the
  spread sheet option. See Chapter 15.8.5a of the
  online manual

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Encouraging users to log off assures that when
patrons go to your OPAC terminal to search they
can choose which CAT to search. Timed out
session will return to the splash screen
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This list shows the specific marc tags are being
searched when you execute specific types of
searches. Keep this in mind when you are
importing MARC records through SmartPORT. The
OPAC can't search information that isn't in the
record this is especially important with series
titles.
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Let's search!

• You can launch 5 different types of searches from
  the Quick Search Screen
• Keyword
• Title
• Author
• Subject
• Series

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Keywordsearching all tags
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Author. 100, 110, 111, 700, 710, 711, 720
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Title. 130, 245, 246, 440, 730, 740
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Subject.600, 610, 611, 630, 650, 651, 655, 690,
691
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Series.......400, 410, 411, 440, 490, 800, 810,
811, 830, 840
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Series search
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More details about the brief results list
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Detailed display.
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A look inside, and word about content enrichment
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While this school doesn't subscribe to content
enrichment all searching emailing options are
the same
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Viewing the full description.
The default view is unformatted which shows the
MARC record in a user friendly format it allows
searching by clicking on hyper-linked tags
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Selecting unformatted display yes -shows the
actual MARC tags the default shows the
hyper-linked display
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Special Searches
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Browse Call Numbers
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Browse headings.
Clicking on the result takes you to the record
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Reading Level Search
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Program NamebInterest levelcReading
leveldTitle point value5Building code More
detailed documentation on enhancing bibs with 526
tags in Chapter 12.8b
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Advanced Search

• Allows the user to combine the five basic search
  options
• Add additional filtering criteria to limit
  searching for specific needs
• Item group
• Item type
• Funding source
• Publication Year

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The search for videos resulted in zero hits but
when the material type book was selected there
were a total of 35 results.
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The success of your advanced searching is
dependent not only on your MARC records but the
item information entered when you add new
materials to your collections
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Advanced search filters..

• Material type Item group filters are determined
  by you, the users
• Post suggestions to the OPAC feedback site
• Item Group filters coming soon include YA
  Audiobook

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Item groups are used to give patrons directional
clues about where to find items in the
library Material type describes the
physical make up of the items
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Additional features in CAT

• Book bag kept items
• Currently you may select to keep all items or
  select individual items to keep into your book
  bag
• Limit of 10 items can be kept and mailed
• Requested enhancement to increase number
• Emailing book bag pickup list vs. brief
  citation list
• Pickup list includes call number
• Brief citation list does not.

Email feature can be enabled by building
contact your INFOhio support person if you would
like this enabled
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Other Resources
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• Search other libraries is your More libraries
  search.same as old CAT

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• Link to Area Media Centers..

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Visit Other Libraries

• These links are customized by your ITC staff and
  usually include local libraries and databases of
  interest.

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Statewide Resource Sharing
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Other Electronic Resources links to
INFOhio's Other Online Resources page
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Questions?
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• Be sure to share your comments on the OPAC blog
  via the Suggestion Box
• Report any issues with your own OPAC to your
  INFOhio Provider
• Thank you!

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