Re: My Millennium and Preferred Searches

[Karen Perone <peroneka@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are also in the process of setting this up but have run into a couple 
of glitches. We have an old system with a non-standard email tag in our 
patron records (we set up our tags before email to patrons was even an 
option).

Innovative set up the alternate email tag for us (Phase 3) and set the 
option to send out mail once a month (I'm happy to hear that someone 
else is doing it weekly - will have to check on this) I have a test set 
up for a generic subject = video recordings and a couple other authors 
that I knew were in the cataloging pipeline - but still no notifications 
to my email address.

Another problem that we have encountered in the process involves the 
time it takes to do our daily backups now. Because of staffing and 
library hours, we do a daily backup last thing on Friday. Before we set 
things up, our backup took from 1-5 minutes. Now the daily takes nearly 
18 minutes. Our full backups take only 23 minutes!

This is caused by a huge file that is created with the preferred search 
information according to my latest talks with the Helpdesk. Could having 
more frequent mailings (if we ever get any :) help to keep this file 
down to a reasonable size and speed our daily backups to a reasonable 
amount of time?

--Karen Perone, Rodman Public Library

Janet Fine wrote:
> We are thinking about setting up email notification of preferred
> searches--if I understand it correctly,once this is set up by Innovative,
> we will be able to email our patrons when a book by a certain author or on a
> certain subject is cataloged at the library. Has anyone already taken the
> leap and put this in place?  I would greatly appreciate hearing about your
> experience, any hints and any problems that you encountered.