Re: [IUG] Curious searching behavior

[wylie ackerman <wyliea at dpls dot lib dot or dot us>]

We saw this here as well.  We had been experiencing what we thought were random performance issues in our web catalog.  III staff noticed the harvesting and thought that the volume was high enough that it was likely the cause of the problems.

We blocked the traffic at our firewall.


Wylie Ackerman
eServices Manager
Deschutes Public Library
(541) 312-1042
http://www.deschuteslibrary.org
 


 
Know More.



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From: innopac-bounces at innovativeusers dot org [mailto:innopac-bounces at innovativeusers dot org] On Behalf Of Linda West
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 8:55 AM
To: innopac at innovativeusers dot org
Subject: [IUG] Curious searching behavior

I just pulled patron search statistics for May and have noticed some curious
behavior.  It appears that someone has accessed/harvested? over 150,000 of
our MARC records by displaying the MARC record and then using the next
record button to go between records.  This happened every Friday in May
early in the morning.  Has anyone else experienced this or does anyone have
an idea of what has happened to us?


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Linda H. West
Technical Services Director/Asst. Professor
John Vaughan Library
Northeastern State University
Tahlequah OK 74464
918-444-3280
west at nsuok dot edu

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