NHAIS Notes

Linked data and URIs -- #6 Example of a Relator URI

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Russell) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000

The 100 field for the author in our example bib record also contains a third URI in a subfield $4.

As stated in an earlier post, URIs may now be used in subfield $4 to link to records that provide information about the relationship/relator codes that catalogers have been using for a while in this subfield.

The URI in the second subfield $4 of this example:

$4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

links to the record below from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service (https://id.loc.gov/) which describes the relator, “author” (represented by the code “aut” in the first subfield $4):

author

A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a work that is primarily textual in content, regardless of media type (e.g., printed text, spoken word, electronic text, tactile text) or genre (e.g., poems, novels, screenplays, blogs). Use also for persons, etc., creating a new work by paraphrasing, rewriting, or adapting works by another creator such that the modification has substantially changed the nature and content of the original or changed the medium of expression.
URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Codes

Variants

joint author

Narrower Terms

SubProperty Of

http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor

Editorial Notes

changed MARC def

History Notes

MARC bib: 1XX/7XX/8XX $4

Instance Of

Scheme Membership(s)

List of Relator Terms

Collection Membership(s)

Change Notes

2021-08-02: new
2022-11-29: modified

Alternate Formats

URIs in subfield $0 might also point to records describing other types of controlled terms used in cataloging. For example, the URI for content type from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service (https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/sti.html) would be entered in the subfield $0 of a 336 field:

336 field from MARC record:

336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt

Record linked to by URI in the subfield $0 describing the controlled term “text”:

text

URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt

Codes

History Notes

MARC bib: Leader/06: a or t

Instance Of

Scheme Membership(s)

Content Types

Collection Membership(s)

Content Types Collection

Change Notes

2021-08-13: new

Alternate Formats

In the next and final post of this series, you’ll find a list of resources that you can use to learn more about linked data and URIs in MARC records.

This is the sixth in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.

No SE-B van Thu 6/4

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:35:29 +0000

The SE-B van route is cancelled today [Thursday, June 4] due to illness. Affected libraries are as follows:

Auburn
Windham
Pelham
Salem
Derry
Londonderry
Hudson
Nashua
Milford
Amherst
Merrimack
Bedford
Manchester

Thank you for your understanding.

Best,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

Date on shipping labels

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:52:06 +0000

From the NHAIS Help Desk mailbox:

Would it be possible to have the “Date:” on the printout reflect the actual day it will go out on the van? I change the shipping date in the request and try to remember to leave a note in the lending library request box, but the shipping date always reflects the current date, not the actual date of the van pick up.

While most of what you see on the shipping labels is drawn from the request record (what you see on the Borrower's or Lender's Full Record Display pages), the date isn't. It's not the Request Date, Due Date, Date Shipped, Need by Date, Date Received, Date Returned, Date Checked In, or Respond by Date--all of which can appear in the request record depending on the request’s status. The date you see on shipping labels simply reflects the day the Format to Print button was used to display and (presumably) print the labels. Changing that to Date Shipped is not an option but you're welcome to write whatever else you want on shipping labels.

Linked data and URIs— #5 Example of a Real World Object URI

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Russell) — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Our example record from last week also includes a URI entered in a subfield $1

When you searched on the URI in the subfield $0, you were brought to an authority record for the name “Colin Murphy.” When you search on the URI found in the subfield $1, on the other hand, you’re brought to a description of the person behind this name:

Murphy, Colin (Journalist)

URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2014111945

Is Identified By Authority

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014111945

o Associated Locale: Ireland

Field Of Activity

Field Of Activity: Journalism

Occupation

Occupation: Journalists
Occupation: Playwrights
Occupation: Screenwriters
Occupation: Filmmaker

Instance Of

Alternate Formats

Some of the fields found in this record are the same as those found in his authority record (such as “Occupation”). However, notice that the “Sources” listed in the authority record from the last post (which appear in 670 fields in the traditional authority record) don’t appear. The sources consulted by a cataloger to establish the authorized form of Colin Murphy’s name are important information to include in an authority record describing his name, but not in the “Real World Object” (RWO) record describing the person behind the name.

One other thing to note about these two types of records is that they have fields with links that refer to each other. The authority record has an “Identifies RWO” field with a URI pointing to the “real world object” record for the person Colin Murphy, and the “real world object” record has an “Is Identified By Authority” field with a URI pointing to the authority record for his name:

Murphy, Colin (Journalist)

URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014111945

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2014111945

Murphy, Colin (Journalist)

URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2014111945

Is Identified By Authority

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014111945

In the next post, we’ll look at the third type of URI in the example bib record, a link to a record for a “Relationship” term located in a subfield $4.

This is the fifth in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.

No SW van Thu 5/28

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:56:38 +0000

Due to driver availability, today’s [Thursday, May 28] SW ILL van route is cancelled, and tomorrow’s SW-A route will be modified/shortened.

The following libraries will get a delivery tomorrow (Friday, May 29).

• New London
• Newport
• Washington
• Charlestown
• Keene
• Marlborough
• Dublin
• Mont Vernon
• Weare

Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

new Undo Received and improved Undo Shipped

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly tonight (Tuesday, May 26) for a software update starting at 10 o'clock.

-A new Undo Received option will be available to borrowers. Choosing Undo Received will move the request back to its prior status (Shipped, Recalled, Not Received, or Not Received/Overdue).

-The Undo Shipped option for lenders will be available for a longer time than in the past. Undo Shipped is an option for requests in Shipped, Not Received, Not Received/Overdue, and Recalled status and will now be available until the request is updated to Received by the borrower. When the lender chooses Undo Shipped, the request moves back to Pending status and the "Respond by" date is recalculated (lenders have three full days and a fraction of a fourth to respond to a request before it's automatically forwarded to the next potential lender on the lender list).

-When a request is placed on an item with only one or two valid ISBNs or ISSNs, the remaining blank fields for additional ISBNs or ISSNs in the request record were editable. This allowed the user to add invalid or incorrect identifiers to the request, resulting in a failed request. With this release, when there is at least one valid ISBN or ISSN on the source record, the fields will be read-only.

No NC van Tue 5/26--correction on affected libraries

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:56:13 +0000

My apologies. I’m not running on all cylinders today. Today is TUESDAY [May 26], not Monday.
The NC libraries who will not receive deliveries today are as follows:

Whitefield
Dalton
Lancaster
Groveton
Stratford
Colebrook
Errol
WMCC - Berlin
Berlin
Gorham
Jefferson
Randolph
Jackson
Bartlett
North Conway
Conway
Twin Mountain

Thank you for your patience.

Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

No NC van Tue 5/26

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:15:22 +0000

Today’s North Country (NC) ILL van route [Tuesday, May 26] is cancelled due to illness. Affected libraries are as follows:

Conway
Madison
Chocorua
Tamworth
Center Sandwich
Plymouth
Campton
Thornton
Lincoln
North Woodstock
Franconia
Bethlehem

Thank you for your understanding.

Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

No SE van Fri 5/22

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:12:43 +0000

Today’s SE ILL van route is cancelled [Friday, May 22]. Affected libraries are as follows:

Northwood
Center Strafford
Barrington
Rochester
Somersworth
Dover
Lee
Durham
Newmarket
Portsmouth
Rye
North Hampton

Thank you for your understanding and enjoy this Memorial Day weekend.

Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

Linked data and URIs -- #4 Example of an Authority Record URI

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Russell) — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Here’s part of a record from the Library of Congress’ catalog for a work by Colin Murphy. Notice that the 100 field has URIs entered in subfields $0, $1, and $4. We’ll look at the link in the subfield $0 first:

If you paste the link from the $0 into a browser, you’ll be brought to the authority record for Colin Murphy’s name from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service:

Murphy, Colin (Journalist)

URI(s)

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014111945

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2014111945

Identifies RWO

https://isni.org/isni/0000000436813417
Associated Locale Ireland

Field Of Activity Field of Activity: Journalism
Occupation Occupation: Journalists
Occupation Occupation: Playwrights
Occupation Occupation: Screenwriters
Occupation Occupation: Filmmaker

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

http://viaf.org/en/viaf/LC%7Cno2014111945

Sources

found: Somerville-Large, Peter. The Mount Street Club, 2014:title page (Colin Murphy)
found: The Mount Street Club book website, viewed Aug. 22, 2014(Colin Murphy; journalist, film, and documentary maker who writes for politico.ie and various Irish and British papers) - http://mountstreetclub.com/?page_id=154
found: A day in May, 2022:t.p. (Colin Murphy)
found: Amazon author page, Aug. 22, 2023:(Colin Murphy is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and journalist)

LC Classification PR6113.U7667 -- Assigner: DLC
Instance Of

Scheme Membership(s)

Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

Change Notes

2014-08-22: new
2025-08-04: revised

Alternate Formats

You might notice that this authority record contains a lot of information not traditionally found in authority records (such as alternate markup formats). Some of this information is intended to facilitate linked data applications. Here’s the authority record for Colin Murphy’s name from the Library of Congress’ traditional authority file:

LC control no.: no2014111945

LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/no2014111945 (link opens in a new tab)

000 01100cz a2200241n 4500

001 9638516

005 20250804200623.9

008 140822n| azannaabn |n aaa c

010 _ _ $a no2014111945

035 _ _ $a (OCoLC)oca09942879

035 _ _ $a 9638516

040 _ _ $a TNJ $b eng $e rda $c TNJ $d InNd $d DLC

053 0 _ $a PR6113.U7667

100 1 _ $a Murphy, Colin $c (Journalist)

370 _ _ $c Ireland $c Great Britain $2 naf

372 _ _ $a Journalism $2 lcsh

374 _ _ $a Journalists $a Playwrights $a Screenwriters $2 lcdgt

374 _ _ $a Filmmaker

670 _ _ $a Somerville-Large, Peter. The Mount Street Club, 2014: $b title page (Colin Murphy)

670 _ _ $a The Mount Street Club book website, viewed Aug. 22, 2014 $b (Colin Murphy; journalist, film, and documentary maker who writes for politico.ie and various Irish and British papers) $u http://mountstreetclub.com/?page_id=154

670 _ _ $a A day in May, 2022: $b t.p. (Colin Murphy)

670 _ _ $a Amazon author page, Aug. 22, 2023: $b (Colin Murphy is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and journalist)

999 f f $i 522cb403-480c-4675-be7f-40dddc0f88d0 $s f11e8ed5-b846-4d88-85f8-b56e71fc7dc1

In the next post, we’ll look at the “Real World Object” (RWO) record for the journalist Colin Murphy, accessed through the URI in the subfield $1

This is the fourth in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.

Did that message make it to the list?

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:31:33 +0000

From the NHAIS Help Desk inbox:

So - I'm wondering, if I send a message to the ILL listserv (nhais-ill@maillist2.nh.gov), is there a way for me, as the sender of the post, to confirm that it actually showed up on the listserv? ...since I don't get a copy of my own message in my own inbox. Sometimes a post is greeted with mossy silence and I don't know if it's because it didn't actually get posted or because no-one has anything to say about it

The default for all e-mail lists maintained by NHAIS Services is for subscribers to receive their own posts to the list but it's possible to change that. You can check the settings for your list subscription by logging into your account and looking under Your [Listname] Subscription Options for "Receive your own posts to the list?" If it's already set to Yes, check your own inbox to see if there's a rule that’s routing your messages elsewhere.

But wait...how do you log into your account? Go to the "Listinfo" page and enter your subscribed address and password. What's the "Listinfo" page? It's different for each list:
NHAIS-L: https://maillist2.nh.gov/mailman/listinfo/nhais-l
NHAIS-ILL: https://maillist2.nh.gov/mailman/listinfo/NHAIS-ILL
yardsaleNHAIS: https://maillist2.nh.gov/mailman/listinfo/YardsaleNHAIS

How do you find your password? Near the bottom of the "Listinfo" page, enter your subscribed address next to the Unsubscribe or edit options button, then click the button.

On the next page, find the Password reminder section and click the Remind button to have a password sent to your subscribed address.

No matter what the settings, one way you can confirm that your message was posted is to check that it appears in the list archives. This also involves going to the "Listinfo" page, at the top of which is an About [Listname] section which ends with a link to the archives. Click the link and log in.

Still need help? Contact the NHAIS Help Desk via e-mail or phone 603-271-2141.

SW van route truncated Mon 5/18

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:07:15 +0000

The SW ILL van route had to be shortened for today [Monday, May 18]. The only libraries receiving ILL deliveries today are:

Temple
Greenfield
Francestown
Goffstown

Thank you for your understanding.
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

Linked data and URIs -- #3 Data Provenance Subfields

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Russell) — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Data provenance subfields ($0 and $1) provide information about metadata/cataloging data in other subfields within the same MARC field.

Codes in parentheses at the beginning of these subfields refer to the category of information given and the subfield within the MARC field to which they apply (if they don’t apply to all of the subfields). The meaning of these codes is given in MARC documentation (Ex. https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/controlsubfields.html#subfielddp))

We’ve always provided information about our metadata within catalog records, but these subfields allow us to provide this information in a more structured way than we have in the past.

For example, here’s the same note without and with information about the source/ provenance of the cataloging data given in a separate subfield. The code in parentheses tells you that the text in the subfield $7 is a “note on metadata work,” i.e. a note about the cataloging data. In this example, there’s no need to also include an indication of the subfield to which this text applies because there’s only one other subfield in the 520 field:

520__”Everybody has needs. This nonfiction book explores the basic needs of people and how we get our needs met”—Publisher’s website.

520__”Everybody has needs. This nonfiction book explores the basic needs of people and how we get our needs met”$7(dpenmw)Publisher’s website.

Here’s an example with the source consulted for the metadata in the 264 subfield $a given in both textual and URI forms in separate subfield $7s. The first code in parentheses tells you that the category of information provided about the metadata is “source consulted” and the second code tells you that the information applies to the subfield “a” of the 264 field:

264 #1 [Helsinki] : $b Dionysos Films, $c [2019] $7 (dpesc/dpsfa)Dionysos Films website $7 (dpesc/dpsfa)https://www.dionysosfilms.fi/

Subfield $0 vs. Subfield $1

As explained in the last post, subfield $0 carries the “Authority record control number or standard number.” A URI used in $0 will link to a description of the name or label used in the MARC field. The subfield $1 carries a “Real World Object (RWO) URI,” linking to a description of an entity.

The descriptions that these two types of URIs link to might look identical at first glance. So, what’s the difference?

Remember that the purpose of linked data is to make it easier for computers to find and interpret information. In linked data world, it’s important for computers to be able to distinguish between a name used for an entity and the entity that’s being named. The subfields used for URIs signal this distinction. URIs entered in subfield $0 link to authority records for names or terms used for entities (people, places, corporate bodies, etc.), while Real World Object (RWO) URIs entered in subfield $1 link to descriptions of the entities themselves (the actual people, places, corporate bodies, etc. behind these names or terms). My personal mnemonic device for this is that “0” comes before “1,” and we had authority records in the library world long before records for “real world objects.”

For example, a URI in the subfield $0 of a 100 field for the author Charles Dickens would refer to his name, the alphanumeric string that is used to identify him (Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870), while a URI entered in a subfield $1 of the 100 field for this author would refer to the human being who wrote “Bleak house” and is identified by this name.

Even though they might appear similar at first glance, records linked to by URIs in subfields $0 or $1 may contain different types of data. In the next few posts, we’ll look at an example of three types of links in a catalog record with URIs that link to three different types of descriptions.

This is the third in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.

No SE-B van Thu 5/14

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:38:23 +0000

The SE-B ILL van route is canceled today [Thursday, May 14] due to illness. The affected libraries are:

Auburn
Windham
Pelham
Salem
Derry
Londonderry
Hudson
Nashua
Milford
Amherst
Merrimack
Bedford
Manchester

Thank you for your understanding.

Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

School vacations

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:14:09 +0000

School librarians please take note: as the academic year winds down, please remember to tell NHAIS Services if you will not be responding to requests in the NHAIS ILL System during the summer. We'll set your account so new requests won't be routed to your location during your vacation. This helps move requests along to active libraries, rather than letting them sit around waiting and waiting for a closed library to respond.

Contact the NHAIS Help Desk with your vacation information (library name, first and last dates you won't be responding to ILL) via e-mail or call 603-271-2141.

If your school's calendar for 2026-27 is already fixed, you can submit vacation dates for the entire school year now--there's no need to wait. Fill out the School Closed Dates form and send it to NHAIS Services.

To check whether you've already submitted vacation dates, go to Staff Dashboard > ILL Admin > Participant Record > Holiday List. If you see appropriate start and end dates listed there, you need do nothing more.

You may get curious about other things in the Participant Record while you're on that page. For an explanation of what it all means, see a 2022 NHAIS Notes post.

Brief ILL outage Tue 5/12 10pm

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:28:25 +0000

The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly starting at 10 o'clock tonight (Tuesday, May 12) to install a software update. The blog message you see above the Staff Dashboard page will now also appear on the Request Manager page.

Linked data and URIs #2-- Where are They?

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Russell) — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Nowadays, URIs are found in numerous MARC fields. Consult a version of MARC documentation (Ex. https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/home.html or https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ ) to verify that a particular MARC field contains a subfield for URIs.

URIs may sometimes be added to MARC fields without subfield coding (for example, in parentheses or after a dash to indicate a source of data in a note field). However, when URIs are separately coded, they are used in only a few subfields (For a fuller explanation, see https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/controlsubfields.html):

$u Uniform Resource Identifier: The URI in this subfield may link to an electronic version of the resource described in the record or to any electronic resource that’s related in some way to what’s described in the record.

$0 Authority record control number or standard number: This subfield may contain numbers or text, in addition to URIs. A URI used in $0 will link to a description (like an authority record) of the name or label used in the MARC field.

$1 Real World Object URI: The idea of “Real World Object” (RWO) is new in the library world. Despite the use of the word “object” in this phrase, it also refers to entities that we wouldn’t typically think of as objects, such as people or concepts. A URI used in this subfield points to a description of an entity, rather than a description of a name or label (as a URI used in a $0 would).

$4 Relationship: The subfield $4 has been used for a while in cataloging to carry relationship/relator codes that indicate the relationship of the entity entered in a MARC field to what is being described by the MARC record (Ex. “aut” for “author”). Now, URIs may also be entered in the subfield $4, linking to records that provide further information about these codes.

URIs may also be used to describe “data provenance” in the following subfields: $e, $l, $y, $7. The MARC field being used will determine which subfield is used for data provenance (Remember to consult MARC documentation when choosing a subfield to use). Text may be used in these fields in addition to or instead of URIs. If both text and URIs are used, they are entered in separate subfields (Ex. text in one $7, URI in a separate $7).

Since $0 and $1 and subfields used for data provenance ($e, $l, $y $7) are relatively new (or being used in new ways), a little more explanation of these subfields is in order. This will be the subject of the next post.

This is the second in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.

No LR van Fri 5/1

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:05:00 +0000

The Lakes Region (LR) ILL van delivery is cancelled for Friday, May 1. Affected libraries are as follows:

NH State Prison, Concord
Hill
Bristol
Meredith
Center Harbor
Moultonborough
Wolfeboro
Alton
Gilford
Laconia
Sanbornton

Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

Linked data and URIs #1-- What are They?

noreply@blogger.com (Mary Russell) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000

This is the first in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in the subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.

There’s been a lot of talk in the library community (especially the library cataloging community) lately about “linked data.” Linked data is “a set of best practices for publishing structured data on the Web” (https://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkedData). Simply put, linked data uses links to structure information in a way that makes it more readable by computers.

Why is this important to libraries? The idea is that using links to make library data more readable by computers will make it findable by automated tools outside of the library catalog and connect it to other sources of information outside of the catalog. So, people searching outside of the catalog can find our resources more easily, and we can more easily find further information about our resources that’s located elsewhere.

In catalog records, these links take the form of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), defined as “unique sequences of characters that identify abstract or physical resources” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier). The Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that we’ve added to our records for years (often in subfield $u of MARC field 856) are a type of URI.

URIs are increasingly being added to fields and subfields in MARC records and are just a preliminary step in turning library data into linked data. Eventually, the idea is that MARC will be replaced by tools and models such as BIBFRAME that allow library data to be entirely created and edited according to linked data principles.

The next post will discuss where these URIs show up in MARC records and what they mean.

Zahra Gordon is the Cataloger at the New Hampshire State Library. Before coming to the State Library, she worked as a cataloger for a contract cataloging agency serving government libraries in the Washington Metropolitan Area and then for YBP Library Services (now GOBI Library Solutions) in Contoocook, New Hampshire.

2025 Public Library Survey DUE TOMORROW

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:48:00 +0000

As of 11:30am today [Wednesday, Apr. 29], approximately 75% of NH public libraries have submitted their annual reports. Well done! However, I’m still expecting surveys from a little over 50 libraries. Let’s go, folks!

I’ve sent emails to the directors of those 50+ libraries requesting a status update. If someone other than the director in your ‘brary does the survey, forward this message to them and ask them to contact me, pretty please with data on top.

The end (of the survey) is nigh!

Thanks all,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
N.H. Department of Natural & Cultural Resources
20 Park St.
Concord, NH 03301
Office: 603-271-2060
Ref Desk: 603-271-2144
Jennifer.M.Finch@dncr.nh.gov

No NC van Wed 4/29

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:26:54 +0000

Due to illness, today’s North Country (NC) ILL van route cancelled [Wednesday, Apr. 28]. The affected libraries are:

Twin Mountain
Plymouth
Rumney
Wentworth
Warren
Lyme
Orford
Piermont
Haverhill
North Haverhill
Monroe
Woodsville
Bath
Lisbon
Littleton
Bethlehem

Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

No SW-A van Wed 4/29

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:44:17 +0000

There will be no SW-A ILL van deliveries on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. The affected libraries are:

Dartmouth College
Hanover - Howe
Lebanon
Meriden
River Valley CC - Claremont
Claremont
Walpole
Keene
Peterborough
Wilton

Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

Brief ILL outage Tue 4/28 10pm

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:10:00 +0000

The NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly starting at 10 o'clock tonight (Tuesday, Apr. 28) to install software updates, including two fixes.

-After going from a List view of search results to the Full Record Display, the back arrow is supposed to bring users back to where they clicked on the list but, under certain circumstances, users could be returned to the top of the results page. This has been corrected.

-Some users have been unable to set the Request Manager as their default opening page since that feature was introduced four weeks ago. Following tonight's update, all staffers logged in with a username ending with "ill" or "all" should see Request Manager as an option at Your Account > Your Preferences > Default Opening Page.

No NC, SW vans Tue 4/28

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:23:00 +0000

The North Country (NC) ILL van delivery route is cancelled for Tuesday, April 28. The affected libraries are:

Whitefield
Dalton
Lancaster
Groveton
Stratford
Colebrook
Errol
WMCC - Berlin
Berlin
Gorham
Jefferson
Randolph
Jackson
Bartlett
North Conway
Conway

The Southwest (SW) ILL van route has been cancelled for Tuesday, 4/28. Affected libraries are as follows:

Webster
Salisbury
Andover
Wilmot
New London
Colby Sawyer
Sutton
Warner
Bradford
Newbury
Sunapee
Newport
Hillsborough
Henniker

Your patience and understanding are appreciated.

Thank you,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library

No LR van Mon 4/27

noreply@blogger.com (David Harris) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:11:00 +0000

There will be no Lakes Region (LR) ILL van deliveries on Monday, April 27. Affected libraries are:

Tilton
Franklin
Bristol
Meredith
Moultonborough
Wolfeboro
Gilford
Laconia
Belmont
Bow
Concord Public

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Best,
Jennifer M. Finch (she/her)
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library