[Yulcat-l] Enhancements to Cataloger's Desktop notes and bookmarks

[Steven Arakawa]

FYI from the Desktop list. I'd like to suggest that when you want to add 
new bookmarks, you take advantage of the personal feature, since the list 
of institution bookmarks could eventually become too long to be useful.

--Steven Arakawa


Date:         Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:20:10 -0400
Reply-To: "Cataloger's Desktop Forum" <DESKTOP at loc.gov>
Sender: "Cataloger's Desktop Forum" <DESKTOP at loc.gov>
From: Bruce C Johnson <bjoh at loc.gov>
Subject: Enhancements to Cataloger's Desktop notes and bookmarks
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To: DESKTOP at sun8.LOC.GOV
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Status:  O

Colleagues:

    Good morning.  I would like to tell you what we rolled out yesterday 
and let you know about a further enhancement that should be available very 
shortly.

Enhancements to Cataloger's Desktop notes and bookmarks

    A number of modifications have been made to Desktop's note and 
bookmarking functions.  Up until yesterday all bookmarks and notes that 
were created at your institution were available to everyone who used the 
same login.  With the enhancements that we installed yesterday, it is now 
possible for you to create notes and bookmarks that are yours alone.  Notes 
and bookmarks can be tied to your email address, and you will be asked what 
your email address is the first time you try to either create or access 
personal notes or bookmarks.  You will also be given an opportunity to 
choose whether you prefer to see just your personal notes and bookmarks, or 
both your personal and institution's bookmarks and notes.  The dialog boxes 
should make it clear how this works.

    A further enhancement to bookmarks and notes is that it is now possible 
for you to re-name them, as well as to edit notes after they have been 
created.  Please note that institutional notes and bookmarks are 
potentially editable by anyone on your institution's account.

Enhancement to PDF searching

    This enhancement was the one that caused problems yesterday.  Briefly, 
what we are doing is to make Library of Congress PDF web resources truly 
internal to Cataloger's Desktop.  Search results will appear in the 
document pane like any infobase-derived resource.  Further (and this is the 
trickier part), hits will be highlighted, which should make searching web 
FDPs much more useful.  Unfortunately yesterday when we were installing 
this enhancement we ran into problems that had not been present on the 
testing server.  We will continue to work on this feature and hope to make 
it available shortly.

Quick Tips update

    Joan Weeks of LC's Instructional Design and Training Division continues 
to work on updating and enhancing the Cataloger's Desktop Quick Tips.  She 
reports that she has two more QTs to update from the last round of 
enhancements.  The current round will require that two more be 
updated.  These should be available in the next few weeks.  As always, 
please send your Quick Tips suggestions to Joan at <jwee at loc.gov> with a 
copy to me at <bjoh at loc.gov>.

    Thank you very much for your continued support.  The enhancements we 
are implementing came from subscribers.  Please continue to make 
suggestions for improvements as they come up.

Bruce


Bruce Chr. Johnson
President, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
a division of the American Library Association

and

Acting Assistant Chief
Cataloging Distribution Service
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-4911 USA

202-707-1652 (voice)  bjoh at loc.gov
202-707-3959 (fax)

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Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog Dept. Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University.
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu