Friday, April 6, 2007

Catalog phenomenon

Perhaps you're already aware of this, but I just learned the cause of an occasional weird catalog behavior.

Someone reported that when they found a book in Endeca, its status was shown as Available. Then, clicking on the title (thereby going into Web2), it was shown as checked out. I wasn't entirely sure what to tell him, but Emily and Charley confirmed that this happens because the Endeca information is merely a snapshot of the day's data, and is updated only once per day. So, Web2 data is the more trustworthy source of status information.

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