Author: Dale Poulter

LTDS October 27th – November 2nd 2019

Several team members were out of the office during the week for meetings or PTO, but the group continued to review INFORM tickets and responded as quickly as possible.    The team also reviewed progress of projects related to systems with older operating systems and began discussing communication needs around the migrations.

 

  • Systems
    • Airwatch changes
    • Migrated several VMs to new cluster
    • Continued work on VUMC user issues
  • Digital Collections and Preservation
    • Worked to resolve a couple of proposed changes to OJS including setting up double blind review
    • Continued testing new version of DSpace
    • Attended final ALCTS Digital Preservation webinar
    • Prepared for World Digital Preservation day
  • Web Management
    • Added additional wordpress site
    • Setup survey box for public web
    • LAC Ballot
    • Reviewed and updated LTDS blog content
  • Other
    • 3D Brains project
    • Committee meetings
    • Training courses
    • Updated Alma related project list

LTDS October 13th -19th 2019

VUIT migrated the majority of the library staff outlook mailboxes on Monday evening.  This generated several issues which all of LTDS work to resolve the remainder of the week.  As of Friday we believe that all email related issues were resolved.

  • Alma/Primo
    • Cleaned up MARC leader for a large group of records in Alma
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Moved ILL back to their offices, set up computers and printers, lots of troubleshooting.
    • Office 365 and various software installs, pick up old equipment at Management Library.
    • Set up new laptop at 21N and installed Office 365 for staff
  • Digital Collections/Digital Preservation
    • Updated ArchivesSpace on development
    • Setup a new exhibit web site
    • Meet with SSDA to discuss next steps for the collection
  • Web/Web applications
    • Corrected issue with EzProxy
    • ERES canonical subjects discussions/work
  • Other
    • Patched Microsoft Window servers
    • Committee work (LITA/ALA/eBUG/ELUNA)
    • Webinar:  Field Guide to Digital Preservation

 

 

LTDS October 6th -12th 2019

Several in LTDS took much of the week off to rejuvenate.  The remainder of the team worked to keep several projects moving forward and respond to issues.

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Completed Sewanee user load process.
    • Tested holding updates for select collections
    • Automated EDI processing with YBP
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Continued to install/upgrade  staff computers to Office 365
    • Worked with Dell support to replace a failed mother board
  • Digital Collections
    • Resolved MySQL issue that affected several digital collections and the public website for a brief period of time
    • refreshed the development DSpace instance and began testing new version
  • Web/Web applications
    • Public web typography changes
    • Corrected a newly discovered issue with ACT.
  • Other
    • Prepared for mailbox migration planned for the 15th.
    • Continued to learn the laravel  framework and started to plan for implementation
    • Participated in LTDS office hours

 

LTDS September 15th – 21st 2019

LTDS continued to work on several projects and prepare for the upcoming Office 365 mailbox migrations and the switch to the Office 365 suite by staff.

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Analytics lab
    • Inventory tool for circulation
    • Moving 856 40 to 956
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Training new student
    • Deploying new desktops
    • Updating Macs in classroom
  • Digital Collections
    • ArchivesSpace interface and plugin work
    • VURJ reboot discussions
    • Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition
  • Web/Web applications
    • Clickable room maps
    • staff purchase request form
    • TVNews
    • Preparing for campus typography web changes
  • Other
    • wordpress and Islandora/Drupal updates

 

LTDS September 8th – 14th 2019

The team continued to work on various projects,  resolve issues and plan for the upcoming 365 migration.

  • Alma/Primo
    • Fisk user load
    • API work for a couple of projects
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Move ILL equipment to new temporary locations
    • New large order for replacing computers
  • Digital Collections
    • Migrating TVnews classic sight to force https using a l.v.e url
    • Review of old exhibit website
  • Web/Web applications
    • Work on clickable maps
    • Revised several web pages including by the numbers
  • Other
    • Library committee work
    • Association committee work

 

 

 

LTDS August 18th – August 24th 2019

LTDS continued to work on various project and resolve INFORMS.

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Large influx of new student works and the need to Alma accounts
    • Reviewing requests and work order priorities in Alma
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Deploying new desktops
    • Continued renaming project
  • Digital Collections
    • Posted new library maps for the Central and Divinity libraries to Fourwinds (wayfinding)
  • Web/Web applications
    • Deployed Survicate (pop-up survey tool) for the public web
    • New homepage for DiSC
  • Other
    • committee and online course work
    • Hiring/re-hiring student workers
    • Gargoyle scanning project

LTDS August 11th – August 17th 2019

WOW!  Classes start on the 21st.  The team utilized a portion of the week confirming that user facing items were working as expected and making a few tweaks.  In addition,  the team starting planning training sessions and topics for LTDS update session during the fall.  If you have a topic you would like to have discussed,  please let us know!

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • New full display deplo4yed
    • Adding LibGuides to VE
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Resolving issues related to AirWatch deployment
    • AD renaming project
  • Digital Collections
    • Vireo development for ETDs
    • Gargoyle scanning
  • Web/Web applications
    • Pop-up survey evaluation/testing
  • Other
    • Scripting OCLC reports
    • Work with SSO for Vireo
    • work on/with various committees

 

LTDS August 4th – August 10th 2019

Another busy week for the team.  Everyone work towards wrapping up projects before students return in 2 weeks!

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Alma analytics lab sessions
    • 21North Re-barcoding project
    • Copying rules from the sandbox (sandbox was refreshed this weekend)
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Continued renaming project
    • deploy new laptops/desktops
  • Digital Collections
    • Catch up on ETDs
    • Continued work on new ETD system
  • Web/Web applications
    • ETANA Broken link checker
    • TVNews forgot password project
  • Other
    • Continued work on SSO/Ping
    • Continued to prepare for l.v.e. MX entry move

 

LTDS July 29th – August 3rd 2019

LTDS continued to work on various projects and resolving INFORM tickets.  The team also started to plan for upcoming monthly update sessions starting this month.  If you have a topic you would like to have covered during an upcoming session,  please let me know.

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Hack-a-thon to split Acquisitions and Cataloging in Alma
    • Normalization rules for VE
    • Government Documents Work Order
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Started wide deployment of AirWatch /Workspace One
    • Processing orders for new machines — regular replacements
  • Digital Collections
    • WordCloud changes and improvements
    • Continued work on Vireo — the new ETD systems
    • working with the 3D camera
  • Web/Web applications
    • Converting web apps to mysqli
    • TVNews Password change form
  • Other
    • Learning Ruby and Rails
    • Planing for fall projects
    • Troubleshooting