Aug 27 2006
First entry
Monday saw the return of the students to DGS and the usual round of getting courses started. Only a few students came into the library at lunchtime some of last years regulars and a few S1s.
On Tuesday the SMT and Guidance staff held a session in the Library for S6 students and cleared almost all course changes in one fell swoop. Whilst this was happening Andy Holmes, a Senior Librarian with East Lothian Library Service, visited me to demonstrate the upgraded backup system for the automated library system. We disconnected the issue desk PC to simulate loss of the connection and I learned all about Talis Assure. So far so good. Then we reconnected the PC so that I could see how the backup fed the information into the live system to discover that the live system had gone down during the time of the demo and stayed down for the rest of the afternoon. PCs 1, Librarian 0. Luckily no-one wanted to issue textbooks to their classes on Tuesday afternoon the only time in the week this has happened. Biology, Chemistry, Physics, CDT, History and English all issue textbooks via the library system to keep track of their books. As you can imagine, the first week of a new school year is a particularly busy time for handing out books. Continue Reading »