I wanted to let HALAN staff know about this OCLC maintenance
outage. It should not affect our libraries dramatically but
here’s what is potentially affected:
We have hosted EZProxy with OCLC for authenticating some
databases. The affected database access URLS begin with https://[Citytx].idm.oclc.org/.
We
have an email from OCLC that says EZProxy is NOT affected but you should
test databases before you begin work on Saturday morning just in case. In
case the databases don’t work during the outage, we can post a notice to
your Web site that some databases may not work. Let us know if you want
to do this.
ILL: Some online public functions related to ILL may not
work. You should check public and staff functionality on
Saturday.
Staff doing cataloging that depends on OCLC
(Catexpress, Connexion) should not work on Saturday and someone should be
assigned to check OCLC related functionality Monday morning and report any
problems to HALAN helpdesk.
If you like you can post things that don’t work to this list on
Saturday so you can keep a running list that everyone can see. Remember
there is nothing HALAN Helpdesk will be able to do to fix these issues.
If I forgot something, please reply to all on this email and let
me know. Please forward the message to staff you think should know.
I will update this email if I get more info. If you have
suggestions or questions let me know.
Judith
Judith Hiott, Chief
Houston Area Library Automated Network
500 McKinney
Houston, TX 77002
832-393-1476
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