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Library Technology and Digital Services (LTDS) name has changed to Library Technology and Assessment Services (LTAS) to emphasize the addition of library assessment. The team continues to support all library systems and digital initiatives. Over the next few weeks, we will update various websites to reflect the change. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you.

LTAS Team Members:
Dale Poulter – Director
Jamen McGranahan – Associate Director
Matt Dillingham – Web developer
Jodie Gambill – Web Development Lead and Librarian for Digital Projects
Lee Ann Lannom – Assessment Librarian
Seeraj Somla – Associate Cloud Engineer
Scott Walker – Library Web Applications Administrator
Tao You – Librarian for Assessment and Digital Projects

The full organizational chart for the Library is available here.

LTDS  worked with VUIT who have turned on the libcal plug-in for Zoom. This plugin allows the automatic creation, update, management and deletion of Zoom meetings and webinars for libCal events and appointments. Now library staff with a libCal account can begin using Zoom within LibCal to schedule online events and appointments.

To use the Zoom plugin, libCal users will need to do the following:

1. Log into LibCal, click on your email address in the navigation bar.
2. Click the Integrations tab of your Manage Account page.
3. In the Zoom panel, click Authorize with Zoom account button and follow the prompts to finish the authorization.
4. When you receive an email from zoom.us with a subject line of “libCal for Zoom is approved to use”, that means your libCal account is linked to your unique institutional zoom account, and you can start scheduling zoom appointments and events within your libCal account.

Feel free to try out this new feature!  To set up virtual appointment and online events within libCal, please refer to this libguides,  and submit an Inform if you encounter any issues.

In the previous Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) system users were able to limit their search by department.  This search feature was lost when the ETD system moved to the VUIR.  LTDS has deployed a new department facet to VUIR to reenable this functionality.  Since limiting by ETD department is only relevant to ETDs,  this facet is only available in the ETD community (https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/9598) .

Do you have a training video that you want to make available via the web?  We can help!

LTDS has created a tool that allows you to easily link to videos you create and stream them through the campus streaming server. These links can be either limited to users with a VUNetID or open to the public.  Once your directory has been setup,  you can link additional videos when they are ready.

Contact LTDS if you would like to utilize this resource.

We have been getting reports of some people having their computers log in showing only a black screen and the mouse cursor. This is due to firmware updates from Dell. The solution is just to wait a very, very long time.

After the black screen, things will slowly start coming back, first the desktop background, then icons, and windows. Even after it looks like everything is back, often it needs to run longer. This process will most likely take at least several hours, maybe much longer. Letting it run overnight is a good idea.

You will know it needs to keep going if you have apps that won’t open or that misbehave in strange ways. If you shut down the computer too soon, it will start the long process over from the beginning next time you log in.

The computer going to sleep will also stop the update. Here is how to change the sleep settings on your computer to keep it from going to sleep during the update:

1. Click on the start/windows icon at the far left of your toolbar
2. Click on the settings icon, the gear-shaped one
3. Click System, then click Power & sleep
4. Under “When plugged in, PC goes to sleep after”, change the sleep setting to Never.

  As always, feel free to submit an INFORM ticket if you still have problems.