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18/04/2005
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Well the British Library order should be ok so far. they actually replied to my email the next day and said that the name isn't essential to putting payment through. Now we just wait for the article....
As for the bugs and the mess they made of the system I've fixed about 600. A few at a time each day and I've worked out a really quick way of doing the job so it's going ok and not impacting on the rest of my work. Not that that is difficult, I usually have to make up time filling projects of my own anyway. I've decided not to try to edit the remailing heading I've kept until this mess is fixed. I figure there's a strong chance that the bug and resulting mess has implacted on the way the editing of the heading works. Don't really know, but if I leave it until tthe records attached to that heading are fixed, and the correct number is showing against the heading it might actually edit faster. Maybe it's confused rather than slow. Maybe it's because it can only see half of the records that are acually attached to it. Stay tuned for updates on the worst library system and it's bugs, messes, fixes, and theorys.
I've been borrowing from my local, using the online system to renew books from home and reserve material held in other branches. All quite lovely. I noticed one of the books I returned was still on my record so dropped into my local tonight, found it on the shelf and took it up to the staff to get them to return it. They looked a fraction worried for a few seconds until I told them I'm a library technician, I'd also worked with the same system in a different library, and I was always having to explain to people how books could get missed when you're checking them in. She got really happy after that, 'wow, someone who understands!' and she even let me borrow the think I had on reserve without my card.
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