Each year academic libraries in the UK spend time collecting a set of statistics known as the SCONUL Stats. SCONUL then collate the responses to produce a dataset for all UK Libraries, useful for comparison etc. These stats now include a few questions about repositories, for example: D13. Number of accesses to full-text items in …
Reply to sender reduces accidental emails to a list and makes it much easier to reply to the sender. People have to consciously select Reply All encouraging them to consider off-list discussions and replies. It avoids embarrassment and privacy issues by reducing the risk of emailing the whole list. Plus, it is still just as easy for people to reply to the …
The following shows the increase of mobile usage on our website. The time period starts from the 1st August (traditionally used as the start of an academic year) to the current date, and compares this with the same period as last year. Catalogue Mobile visits Percentage of total visits Aug 1 – Oct 26 …
We’ve been moving to Prism 3 as our main catalogue at Sussex. Until now we used Aquabrowser as a main catalogue and Prism 2 as an alternative. Aquabrowser could not reserve or renew books and had no ‘My Account’ functionality’. It used frames and flash, and no real software updates have come out since we …
We have recently moved to Prism 3 – and as part of this wanted to setup SFX to link to the new catalogue. The first thing to do is the edit the TargetParser. This needs to be done via a ssh connection. The parser is located (for us) at [sfxinstance]/lib/Parsers/TargetParser/TALIS/PRISM.pm before doing anything else take …
We experienced a problem with our database servers today that caused a partial outage for about 30 minutes across the system with the error message: Error getting data from store (503) During this time, the majority of pages in Aspire remained available due to the fact that our caching system remained operational during the database outage. …
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Check out this website I found at broobles.com Most organisations have some sort of email quota, ours seems to be about 2GB, and I’m currently approaching it. Considering this must be an issue for many people there seems to be a lack of simple programmes that help users identify what is using their email quota. …
Just come across this on Google Analytics This screenshot is for the Analytics of http://liblists.sussex.ac.uk/ (our reading list system) – and shows the referring path for referrals from ‘twq.com‘ – i.e. the referring url show here is http://www.twq.com/10january/docs/10jan_overholt.pdf This page doesn’t exist, and redirects you to another site, the nearest match is https://csis.org/files/publication/twq10januaryoverholt.pdf You wont be …