CUNY Academic Commons | Alevtina Verbovetskaya | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/alevtina/activity/ Activity feed for Alevtina Verbovetskaya. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ca0293c9a1604e9c3c969245b9c258d1 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1081383/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:43:35 -0400 745c9d513a5c5c80790d6192202a8a0f Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1081381/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:42:19 -0400 68855eb1b31fb8c96aba1888d2d6361a Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1053351/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:34:50 -0400 faa34a9488df9ad15b492243f67cdf24 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) created the site OLS Insights https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/785003/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:46:07 -0400 3da5c68d057b0f82c38e98593f44e70e Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/784978/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:38:16 -0400 4fa1262dfc1c28b3430fa47441dc19da Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/732913/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:19:46 -0500 2253373880ef1b59d494bcf96f8c1a71 Alevtina Verbovetskaya replied to the topic #BlackLivesMatter solidarity statement from the CUNY Council of Chief Librarians in the forum CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=90913 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:11:35 -0400 Anti-racism resources from around the CUNYverse:

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]]> 2d5310668bed4dd66902aacc6b684f35 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) joined the group CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/676820/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:55:43 -0400 dad3b04a183bfd348cd2037e0fdda014 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5017 Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:30:46 -0400 There are a lot of good features of Alma, our new library services platform going live in August 2020. However, one feature that is often cited as needing improvement is its UI, which relies heavily on mouse […]

]]> d61f392b3315ff6209521433c5309d32 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4984 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:54:46 -0400 As previously discussed and agreed upon by the Public Services Committee, ERAC, and Cataloging Committee, the CUNY Office of Library Services is removing Serials Solutions MARC records from Aleph. This affects […]

]]> 357ff8dacd5fff25c73715928e5e9661 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4953 Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:01:58 -0400 On Sunday, June 2, 2019, our instance of OneSearch was updated to the latest service pack release of the underlying discovery software. Some notable highlights of this release include:

Contextual […]

]]> 58ed928bb8d52be1626deb68d860b564 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4935 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:18:58 -0400 When we released the new UI in OneSearch, we implemented a “bug report” feature to allow users to alert us to any problems they encounter while using the discovery platform. Since its implementation on 8/27/17, we […]

]]> ac9e3245bb9b0ac825b0d1bca14b9602 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4909 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:31:36 -0400 The ELUNA (Ex Libris Users of North America) Primo Product Working Group collects enhancement requests and sends out ballots to all Primo customers. CUNY votes as a single institution, with a total of 100 votes. […]

]]> 270ae1b54c796c3d020676266b4bed76 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4944 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:00:50 -0400 (Please pardon the duplication. This information is also being shared with the PUBLIC-SERVICES, TECH-SERVICES, and ERAC mailing lists. The Chief Librarians have also been notified.)

The Office of Library […]

]]> 0f87b224b3108f56faaf90ab7ad55c5d Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4722 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:33:24 -0400 Note: For definitions of technical terms used throughout this post, please refer to the Glossary at the bottom of this entry.

The Office of Library Services (“OLS”) has taken the CUNY Libraries through the […]

]]> 8149f5780492e8e5b16159baa81e0be6 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4698 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:12:34 -0400 On Sunday, August 27, 2017, our instance of OneSearch was updated to the latest service pack release of the underlying discovery software. This was a major update and includes many new or updated […]

]]> 35b518ece5f627b8d028c1cb04a5e582 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4685 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 19:21:28 -0400 Along with the roll-out of the new OneSearch user interface, the Office of Library Services has also introduced a new feature to OneSearch:

Below the “Send to” options in the full display of each record is […]

]]> 546b74b72311bfdfe97fb44f9b1fa65c Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) commented on the post, New video for new OneSearch UI, on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/08/18/new-video-for-new-onesearch-ui/#comment-8781 Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:52:17 -0400 Janey—

You should be able to open this video in full-screen mode. Granted, the quality of this video is not as high as I was expecting when I created it but it should help you see the screen, the searches p […]

]]> 6e9f8d43a597e11e41f4b871662fa193 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4680 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:01:46 -0400 When we first introduced OneSearch three years ago, OLS also released a video providing an overview of the tool. Now that we’re about to roll out a brand new interface, we’ve created a brand new […]

]]> a7a4ab39e6b13e7b902c90c02016cd64 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4637 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:40:29 -0400 If you haven’t already heard, OneSearch is getting a facelift! In the fall semester, OneSearch will have a brand new user interface following a CUNY-wide rollout in late August.

The librarians serving on the […]

]]> 10686a761c823da527235a8e26e13e4d Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4578 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:27:38 -0500 The Office of Library Services has recently seen an uptick in reported problems with ebrary titles showing up in the CUNY Catalog and not showing up in OneSearch. We have been in communication with the vendors […]

]]> 577e70886e610baad0378d37e7d11569 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4525 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:29:20 -0500 The CUNY Libraries’ Circulation Committee deliberated the issue of privacy and confidentiality of patron records, resulting in the creation of a Data Retention Subcommittee. The subcommittee consisted of six […]

]]> 8426754d0a6db6db85ec69d50de354f4 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4527 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:12:42 -0500 With help from our friends in the CUNY Office of University Relations, the Office of Library Services’ website is now looking better than ever!

Not only is it more visually pleasing, but the content has […]

]]> af5c0abb82edc5a45a06f602914b1c82 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432830/ Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:07:12 -0400 546ed3eb4602c6b06bb29d89d8baeae2 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3500 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:32:36 -0400 At the beginning of this year, we announced a new feature in our institutional repository: a feedback form. It’s used to gather input from users of the repository to understand how access to these works benefits […]

]]> 2f38a366cb41f4afd8da6df5f449fd4e Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3494 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:09:58 -0400 The following is a list of the top OneSearch search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 03/01/2016 and 03/31/2016, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at […]

]]> 30a84ecef859d7079cea872d9a4f575c Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3487 Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:32:11 -0400 When you click on the “Journal” facet after doing a search, it almost always displays about 20 journal titles. However, in a search with thousands of results, you are obviously retrieving many more journals than […]

]]> 62b0fa777045cfce20973370cf7b6fe1 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3469 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:24:54 -0400 The following list of vendors restricts access to their collections (even to just the metadata, the information that is displayed in the search results) unless the user is on-campus or signed into […]

]]> 357244239a14c5e69f891fafa85e8845 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3453 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:53:26 -0500 The following is a list of the top OneSearch search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 02/01/2016 and 02/29/2016, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at […]

]]> 2d1168d8e50061997b0d233a86cd03c7 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3435 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:19:33 -0500 Applying the principles of user experience to their findings from user studies and search log analyses, Ex Libris will soon release a new user interface for their discovery system, Primo (aka “OneSearch”). What […]

]]> e0167e6f9aac86f3d6580ab3b8d0068c Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3342 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 19:56:27 -0500 Recently, the Office of Library Services has made improvements to the way the centrally-hosted EZproxy servers handle authentication so that they restrict expired patrons from having access to electronic […]

]]> 83cd4d789a1d623b628a79af5c2fa31d Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3333 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:36:17 -0500 The year 2015 marked the first full calendar year during which we had our discovery system, OneSearch, up and running across the CUNY libraries. It was a big year, with over 3.7 million searches performed across […]

]]> a51ee3361bdcdaabf1d46660da6203fa Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) commented on the post, Analytics: Getting to Know Our Users, on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/01/16/analytics-getting-to-know-our-users/#comment-735 Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:21:34 -0500 “Desktop” refers to all non-mobile, non-tablet devices, which includes laptops.

And, yes, the Linux numbers are surprising! We will soon announce a dashboard that you can consult which will break out the data […]

]]> bcd89f4d3f1ab51ef915700f4285b81d Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) commented on the post, Analytics: Getting to Know Our Users, on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/01/16/analytics-getting-to-know-our-users/#comment-734 Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:19:30 -0500 I think the default browser is Firefox throughout the library and I believe they’re using a Firefox-based browser (maybe IceWeasel/IceCat?) on their look-up terminals.

We’re working now on breaking out the […]

]]> 978162a2e8df0198a491fd8c690f28c9 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) commented on the post, Analytics: Getting to Know Our Users, on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/01/16/analytics-getting-to-know-our-users/#comment-730 Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:17:56 -0500 It may be explained by look-up terminals located at some of the libraries. For example, Brooklyn College has a bank of 8-10 of them in the reference area and I believe they’re running a Linux-based OS. The OPAC […]

]]> 98da4af3b5e608a3750e469455a5b1e2 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) and Julia Pollack are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/413055/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:35:39 -0400 aea721412e6fabe5a084d5ad4fcf8488 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) commented on the post, Personalize your OneSearch results!, on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/09/11/personalize-your-onesearch-results/#comment-50 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:15:03 -0400 According to the Primo back office guide: “For guests and unsigned users, these settings are retained for the session only.” (In our case, a session is 30 minutes.)

]]> 39f21f5f4bce979cac6161b5bd21f9e9 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2034 Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:43:35 -0400 As of mid-August, OneSearch users have the ability to personalize their results right from within the search screen. (Previously, this was only possible from within “My Account” in the user’s personal settings.) […]

]]> 8ac3144b9c67a556166caddc6cb157ed Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) and Mark Eaton are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/408178/ Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:45:10 -0400 81a43925505fe0b79f92bb02ee396c4c Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1464 Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:20:29 -0400 Tired of seeing the “Off campus?” prompt in OneSearch while you’re on campus?

Then do we have good news for you! Users will no longer be prompted to sign in if their IP address is within the campus’s IP […]

]]> c19caf9987402cbb328fb3d02dbcc1ea Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1432 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 20:41:59 -0400 There are over 2,100 Primo customers worldwide. Want to know how some of them have customized their discovery tool? Check out the list of Primo sites on the Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) website! Some […]

]]> 9c749a9e4429a005dffdfc46eac77b54 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1262 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:33:42 -0400 The beginning of the semester brings to the library thousands of new students who need to activate their barcodes in order to use library services. What if we told you the loading of active barcodes could be […]

]]> 12fa4131c214e80054679311ca8273a8 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Wait, What? http://alevtina.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=324 Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:39:39 -0400 Click and drag me to your bookmarks bar!

]]> 303b50b9f263692243abae526730a5ce Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=270 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:28:44 -0400 Ex Libris will be performing maintenance in our OneSearch production environment in the wee hours of Sunday, April 26, 2015. The server will be rebooted as part of this process so OneSearch may be unavailable […]

]]> ae769a31d2dfee50728ac58f138480af Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems http://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=241 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:10:15 -0400 If you have a centrally-hosted EZproxy instance, you may have noticed an uptick in the number of users reporting authentication problems. This is due to our exceeding our SIP* license limit thanks to the increased […]

]]> 2a80c8d9003198097037237a48bae053 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) and Joan Kolarik are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/341826/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:44:23 -0400 236841acfe95fdab85ed5d2aa13c14a7 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=222 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:13:53 -0400 ThumbnailThe Adwords plugin allows a library to add a small tile to the results page right above the results to provide quick links to other pages according to a predefined list of hotwords and matching URLs.

For […]

]]> 16cf62837f5d024a3f740fa1a1e13d04 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) and Megan Wacha (they/them) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/340670/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:00:29 -0400 ddbab788658fcda268effaa66458b307 Alevtina Verbovetskaya (she/her) wrote a new post on the site What's New @ OLS Systems https://ols57.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=100 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:22:30 -0400 ThumbnailWe recently published all records in the CUN30 library of Aleph for inclusion in Primo. In layman’s terms: course reserve items are now available in OneSearch!

If you’ve ever tried to use the Course Reserve […]

]]> b82b74b2b0f4fc12e42782c6290e90b6 Alevtina Verbovetskaya replied to the topic Embedding code into posts in the forum Wordpress HELP!! - Forum https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=38636 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 13:44:46 -0400 Since I was writing a post, I made two posts to see how the two plugins work:

https://chunktest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/22/code-with-wp-code-highlight/

https://chunktest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/22/code-with-syntaxhighlighter-evolved/

WP-Code-Highlighter fails while SyntaxHighLighter Evolved does display the code. Hmm…

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