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All CARLI Servers Offline June 29, 6AM-10AM
06/24/08

All CARLI servers, including I-Share (Voyager WebVoyage and staff clients), CARLI Digital Collections (CONTENTdm), SFX, CARLI-authenticated access to external resources, the CARLI Office website, and the CARLI Support system will be offline on Sunday, June 29, 2008 from 6:00AM to 10:00AM. This service interruption is necessary in order perform important operating system patches.

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I-Share Voyager software upgrade Jan. 8-9, 2008
12/07/07

CARLI staff are planning to upgrade I-Share, CARLI's Voyager system, from version 6.1 to version 6.5.3 overnight on Tuesday, January 8, 2008. The system will be down for the upgrade beginning at 5pm on January 8, 2008 until approximately 8am on January 9, 2008.

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I-Share Universal Catalog rebuild to begin after July 7 updates
07/06/07

Beginning next week, the CARLI staff will be rebuilding the I-Share Voyager Universal Catalog (UC). The rebuild process is done every year or so to improve search precision by eliminating as many duplicate bibliographic records as possible, and is expected to take approximately three weeks to complete.

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Updated I-Share End User Tutorials Available
05/09/07

The I-Share Users' Group (IUG) Instruction Team is pleased to announce the completion of a revised set of tutorials covering various aspects of using I-Share.

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New Titles List for I-Share Local Catalogs Available
03/27/07

CARLI is pleased to be able to offer I-Share libraries the ability to deploy the Voyager New Titles List in their local catalog.

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New Service Finds Items Added to The Universal Catalog
12/16/06

CARLI is rolling out a new service that easily identifies items newly added to I-Share, the Voyager Universal Catalog, which currently contains the holdings of 65 CARLI libraries. [More]

Endeavor and ExLibris acquired by Francisco Partners
11/21/06

Francisco Partners has acquired Endeavor Information Systems and Ex Libris, the vendors of Voyager and SFX, respectively. CARLI anticipates no immediate changes in service for CARLI libraries using either or both Voyager and SFX. [More]

Voyager Title Indexes Enhanced for Better Recall
11/15/06

CARLI has updated the Voyager "Title" and "Magazine/Journal Title" indexes to improve recall on title searches. Users can now retrieve records by searching for titles in the contents field (505 $t) and by searching for titles without removing initial articles (a, an, the, or their equivalents in other languages).

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Effect of OCLC Number Changes in the I-Share Environment
11/09/06

Revised 1/31/2007

As of November 12, 2006, OCLC implemented some changes to the ISBN numbers in WorldCat, as well as changes to the structure of the OCLC control numbers. This memo concerns the effect of the changes to OCLC control numbers in I-Share Voyager databases.

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WebVoyage Timeout Interval Doubled
10/05/06

One of the loudest and clearest messages the former ILCSO WebVoyage Usability Study Task Force heard from users was that the existing five minute timeout interval in the public catalog was too short. [More]

ILLINET Online Name Change
09/08/05

As the consolidation of ILCSO, ICCMP, and IDAL into CARLI progresses during this transition year, there is a need to edit many websites, instruction documents, PR materials, and other sources that refer to the legacy consortia.

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