LTDS August 26 – August 30

LTDS continued to work on cleanup projects in Alma and finalize (for now) various configurations.  The team is also reviewing projects that have been tabled — including deploying additional laptops to staff and for circulation.

This week we also had our students return!!   Please welcome Jonah, Sam, Gabriel, Maya, and  Cindy!

A few of the items this week were:

Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)

  • Revised several notices including Acquisitions notices
  • Removed XXX users (old staff accounts from Sirsi)
  • Continued to work on clean-up projects including the duplicate charges
  • Suppresses more that 65,000 items from display that were in the withdrawn location.

Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt)

  • Deployed a few new workstations

Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)

  • DIL got up to full speed with a working plan for scanning
  • Continued to upload items into the system

 

Web/Web applications  (Jodie, Matt)

  • Added error checking on the web site to prevent issues caused by other servers crashing
  • Started discussions and plans for the adopt-a-book site
  • Continued accessibility improvements.
  • Launch of the news desk

Other (all):

  • Students returned!  Work with them to alert them of changes,
  • triage inform tickets and feedback form
  • Alumni access issues

Inform tickets resolved through Thursday.