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A representative of the Haines Directory Company will be delivering the 2008 edition of our Chicago Near West directory between November 26 and December 21. If they ask for the old one, do an exchange. Usually, the rep does not ask and we keep the old volume, which may be invaluable for genealogy some day.

I found this article online. For the full article see: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/american_heritage_rises_from_the_
dead_69626.asp

American Heritage Rises From The Dead

Alexander Graham Bell's great-grandson just bought the rights to American Heritage magazine. Edwin S. Grosvenor is Bell's descendant and the founding editor of art magazine Portfolio (nope, not the one you're thinking of) — and he just announced that he purchased the rights to American Heritage from the Forbes family.

Costs were $500,000 in cash and the assumption of over $10 million in subscription liabilities. The Forbes family will keep a 25% stake in Grosvenor's newly formed American Heritage Media and the magazine will relocate from New York to new offices in the DC suburbs. Former Smithsonian senior editor John F. Ross will be in charge of the magazine.

A reminder that exams for proctoring that come in the mail are in the large lower drawer below the printer at the reference desk.

Our In Service Day will be December 7. I think that the plan is to go to see the new LaGrange Public Library. Then we will have lunch. Set the date aside.

You may have heard that SWAN searches are not working on the current website. The reason for this is that when SWAN loaded the e-commerce package onto their computers, they took out the old redirects that sent swan.sls.lib.il.us html command to swan.mls.lib.il.us. Our old website searchbox has the old code. I would fix it if I could find the code. Only Aaron knows where it is, if he remembers.

If someone calls to say they can not search, tell them to enter swan.mls.lib.il.us into their web browser. They will be able to search all of SWAN from this address.

I am working to get the new website, which is working fine, up as quickly as possible.

A Minolta serviceman was here on Wednesday to clean the toner waste cartridge. The cartridge is supposed to be replaced, but the part has been on backorder for a month or longer. I swa how he did it. He just took it out and held it over a garbage can, opened the little door thing at one end over and over again, and shook the cartridge. He shook out as much as he could get. We should not need the new cartridge for weeks or a month.

He also looked at the feed but could not find anything wrong with it. He thinks staff may have set something on the sensors on the feeding tray, making it think it needed bigger paper. If you notice odd paper behavior, let me know.

SWAN finally restored the search boxes and they work again on the current site. The fix is supposed to be temporary, so we still need to get the new website going soon.

After several days of working, the SWAN search boxes on the old website are not working again. I put the message to redirect users back on the main page of the website. We are working hard to get the new website with working search boxes up.