[Yulcat-l] Fwd: problems during upgrade of LC catalog.

[Patricia Thurston]

Interesting note regarding the LC Voyager upgrade and searching LC's catalog.

Patricia

>Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:33:24 -0800 (PST)
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>From: "Grant G Harris" <grha at loc.gov>
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>Subject: problems during upgrade of LC catalog.
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>The Library of Congress has just upgraded its ILS system (Voyager) to a 
>Unicode version for the JACKPHY languages.  It was thought that there 
>might be problems in the first days after the upgrade, and there 
>are.  Even though Japanese, Arabic, Hebraic and the other JACKPHY 
>languages can now display in the original lettering, some other languages 
>using Roman letters are not displaying correctly.  This includes languages 
>such as Russian for which we use transliteration.  At present, a romanized 
>title such as  "Russkii iazyk v Azerbaidzhane"  comes across as "Russkii* 
>iazyk v Azerbai*dzhane".  As we find out more about this we'll let you 
>know.  Hopefully it will be resolved by the end of the week.  At any rate, 
>today, Nov 14, is not a good day to search the LC online catalog. The 
>number of outside slots has been restricted for Nov 14 and will be raised 
>on Nov 15 if all goes well.
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>If you want to search the JACKPHY languages, you may be interested in 
>looking at the website for our catalog <http://catalog.loc.gov>, which now 
>features information on "Displaying and Searching Using Non-Roman 
>Characters,"  but best to wait till Nov 15 or later.
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>Grant Harris
>Reference Specialist
>European Division
>Library of Congress
>101 Independence Avenue, SE
>Washington, DC 20540-4830
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>tel. 202-707-5859
>fax 202-707-8482
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>grha at loc.gov

Patricia Thurston
Team Leader, Slavic & East European Cataloging
Assistant Head, Catalog Department
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University

Phone: (203) 432-8424
Fax: (203) 432-7231