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Library Hub Discover update

On Friday 19 April, we took Jisc Library Hub services offline for urgent maintenance. That maintenance was successful and as of Tuesday 23 April, Library Hub Discover has been back up and running albeit with some intermittent performance issues. We continue to monitor the service closely. Thank you for your patience while this essential and urgent […]

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Planned work on the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase

We are writing to let you know about some upcoming maintenance work planned for the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK), the database that underpins Jisc’s Library Hub services (Library Hub Discover, Library Hub Cataloguing, and Library Hub Compare).  Background Since the NBK began in 2019 more than 200 libraries in the UK and Ireland have contributed to the […]

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Season’s Greetings and Christmas Closure

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Library Hub team! Library Hub Support will be taking a break from 23rd December until 3rd January. The Library Hub services – Discover, Compare and Cataloguing – will be available over Christmas and New Year. Any queries sent over this period will be dealt with when […]

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Ending of Jisc and OCLC National Metadata Agreement: practical impact

As the National Metadata Agreement between Jisc and OCLC has now come to an end we have made some changes to the way we deal with OCLC data. From today (1st Aug 2022): we are no longer supplying OCLC with update files from NBK contributing libraries for inclusion of their data in WorldCat and OCLC provenance […]

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Communications Library Hub Cataloguing Library Hub Compare Library Hub Discover

Season’s Greetings and Christmas Closure

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Library Hub team! Library Hub Support will be taking a break from 24th December until 4th January. The Library Hub services – Discover, Compare and Cataloguing – will be available over Christmas and New Year. Any queries sent over this period will be dealt with when […]