LTDS July 21st – July 28th 2019

All of the team was back from taking vacation!  Several team members spend time catching up on email and outstanding INFORM requests.  The team continued to work on various summer projects and start planning for fall project priorities.

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Preparing for upcoming acquisitions/cataloging hack-a-thon
    • Work on Music library registration form
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Resolved several issues with systems at 21 North
    • Continued renaming project
  • Digital Collections
    • Continued to work on new ETD submission system
    • Answering questions from users concerning the current ETD system
    • Modifications to the current exhibits being displayed on the Central interactive screens
  • Web/Web applications
    • Created new WordPress site
    • Adding additional error checking for the Today’s hours script
  • Other
    • Development work for Wordcloud v.2
    • Continued professional development though web courses.
    • Documenting possible issues with the email Office 365 migration process.

 

 

 

 

LTDS July 14th – July 20th 2019

LTDS team members spend a great deal of time working on professional development opportunities including online courses on web accessibility, rails, and working with the library carpentry sessions. In addition to these items the team working on various issues including:

  • Alma/Primo
    • Fine issues
    • Never ending Alma user issues
    • Reviewing self-check policies in Divinity/Central
  • Desktop/Application support
    • continued to deploy meeScans
    • distributed mouse pads for the public computers
  • Digital Collections
    • ETD questions and assisting students
  • Web/Web applications
    • Completed audit for staff directory/organization chart
    • updated proxy server ssl certificate
  • Other
    • Installed JBOD and UPS for TVNews
    • Converted public website to use new campus calendar

 

LTDS July 7th – July 13th 2019

Another busy week for LTDS.  A couple of team members took well deserved vacations during the week but the rest of the team continued to work through summer projects and INFORMs.  A few of the items the team worked on are listed below.

  • Alma/Primo
    • Prepared for Sandbox refreshed scheduled for August
    • Worked with OCLC to get the Alma/OCLC sync to work as needed.
    • Deployed meeScan stations in Central and Divinity
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Worked on renaming systems and confirming SCCM availability
    • Continued to test AirWatch
    • Prepared for first hardware order in FY20
    • LTDS orientation meeting with LTDS for new staff
  • Digital Collections
    • Added “Forgot Password” feature to TVNews
    • Updated missing thumbnails for several Helguerra documents
  • Web/Web applications
    • Completed wordpress migration to google tag manager
    • Continued work on the staff directory/org chart audit program
  • Other
    • Continued working to convert servers to public key authentication instead of username/password.
    • Updated ArchivesSpace
    • Listserv Lists cleanup

LTDS June 30th – July 6th 2019

The LTDS was closed Thursday and Friday of this week resulting in a short week for the team.    LTDS utilized the first of the week to continue work on summer projects and resolve various INForm requests.  We hope everyone had a great 4th of July.

 

“Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.”

― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

LTDS June 23th – June 29th

LTDS continued to work in various summer projects including the ETD system,  meeScan and various preservation systems related projects.   The team also started closing out various projects for the fiscal year and Jodie presented the final LTDS update session until August.

As we look forward to exciting changes and new opportunities during fiscal year 2020,  we would like know if you have a topic you would like covered during a monthly update sessions, or if you have a project that we can help with during the coming months.

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Created ScholarsTrust report
    • Work on grima configurations
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Troubleshooting and resetting wifi settings for the classroom laptops
    • Airwatch
  • Digital Collections
    • ArchivesSpace User interface changes
    • Started configuring new ETD system
    • Continued work towards the Contini migration
  • Web/Web applications
    • Tag manager setup
    • Completed work on new TVNews loan script
  • Other
    • Attended ALA and several associated meetings, board meetings, and council sessions.
    • Completed several continuing education sessions from Library Juice
    • LTDS June update session.

 

LTDS June 16th – June 22th

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Adjusted settings for meeScan deployment
    • New titles list
    • Scholars Trust reports
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Resolved various issues related to outlook
    • Prepared for surplus computer pickup.
  • Digital Collections
    • Continued to work with XSLT for Contini migration
      • ETD new system migration
  • Web/Web applications
    • GTM for Heard Alert and multisite
  • Other
    • Cleaning up 401 for surplus pickup
    • Various professional development courses

 

 

LTDS June 9th – June 15th

LTDS continued to work on various projects during this week.

 

  • Alma/Primo
    • Scripted course removal
    • EDI EBSCO  setup for  Law
  • Desktop/Application support
    • Prepared laptops for athlete workshop and assisted with setup
  • Digital Collections
    • Continued circulating rare book digitization project
    • Check in Hathitrust for rare books being digitized
    • Continued to scan MZO materials
  • Web/Web applications
    • Troubleshooting an issue with OJS
  • Other
    • Attended eBUG
    • Migrated a couple of databases from mysql to mysql2
    • Configured new dev server for Digital collections

LTDS June 2nd – June 8th

LTDS continued to work on summer projects including documentation.  Even as the current projects move forward the team is reviewing projects to be done in the fall.

  • Alma/Primo (Jamen, Tao)
    • Working with OCLC to update holdings for the 3 sites
    • Continual user access issues resulting for changes in the user load
  • Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Scott, Jamen)
    • Continued work on AirWatch
    • upgraded computers at 21-North used with the book-eye
  • Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
    • Worked to catch up on ETD submissions and maintenance.
    • Starting scanning older items in the circulating collection as determined by Special Collections
  • Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
    • GTM for WordPress
    • Editing WordPress templates
  • Other (all):
    • Library Juice Coursework
    • Professional committee work (LITA/ALA/LLAMA/ExLibris)

 

 

LTDS May 26th – June 1st

LTDS spent the majority of last week working on various summer projects.  The team also corrected additional printing issues .  If you are still encountering issues with printing,  please contact LTDS.

 

  • Alma/Primo (Jamen, Tao)
    • Alma record cleanup
    • Analytics training
  • Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Scott, Jamen)
    • Continued to resolve printer issues
    • AirWatch preparations
    • Preparing old workstations for surplus
  • Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
    • Captured VUSN items for ingestion
    • Tested script for cleaning up digitized images
    • Reviewing options for new ETD system
  • Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
    • Krupp trial website
    • Changes to Management and Fine Arts webpages
  • Other (all):
    • preparing new storage array for deployment
    • ALA/LITA/ELUNA committee work

 

LTDS May 19th – 25th

LTDS began working on summer projects this week as well working on additional issues as the occurred.

 

  • Alma/Primo (Jamen, Tao)
    • Refining fulfillment rules
    • User access issues
  • Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Scott, Jamen)
    • AD Inventory
    • Preparation for Airwatch and SCCM full roll-out
  • Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
    • Krupp Trial website
    • Digitized the House Organ
  • Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
    • Resolving TVNews issues
    • Updated  ArchivesSpace development instance
  • Other (all):
    • ETD discussions
    • Inform upgrade testing
    • Prepared for creating 3-D brains