I'm going to get better

I started this because I was frustrated with the catalog and WLS as a whole. After I posted it, though, it seemed impolitic. That, coupled with my lazy nature, resulted in this blog lying fallow. Well, I'm not going to worry about being impolitic any more, so all I have to cope with is my lazy nature.

Did you know...

A title browse search in Workflows will not return shadowed items. Besides lost items (which are automatically shadowed), there were a number of new titles shadowed for a period of 45 days shortly after migration to Sirsi. These were pre-pub titles where a record was created before any library actually purchased the item. WLS has stopped that practice but there are some titles still lurking in the dark shadows.

Note that this occurs when something is shadowed at a bibliographic level, not an item or call number level. You can see if an item is shadowed this way in the detailed display MARC record screen. Only WLS can unshadow something at a bibliographic level.

Has anyone seen...

The promised new version of iBistro?
The new WLS webpage?