Library Technology and Assessment Services
Vanderbilt University Libraries
LTDS utilized the week to catch-up on several items from the previous week. The team also spent time correcting various web related issues and discovering a new “feature” in Omni! The team also continued to refine the AirWatch deployment and enhance the staff administrative interface.
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.
Over the past week, your LTDS staff have been putting in a lot of time towards out-facing services. For instance, our first LTDS Office Hours was hosted on Friday, with 5 attendees with a variety of questions. Thank you for all who came and participated. This will be a weekly pilot so come and join us this Friday at 10am! Other out-facing services include website work, a lot of Informs, and committee work. Internally, we continue load user records into Alma, and support staff with various desktop issues. LTDS Staff continue to increase their skills by participating in various trainings, webinars, courses, and preparing to assist and/or teach.
Web work:
* WordPress updates
* Islandora updates
* Clickable study room map
* New titles page interface improvements
* Public web typography refresh
* TVNews forgot password project
Staff supporting:
* LTDS Office Hours
* OCLC publishing project
* Library GitHub support/documentation
* Office 365 installation
Courses:
* Python
* Laravel
* Unix
* Library Juice Academy courses
Committees:
* LAC
* Alma Systems Committee
* Wayfinding Task Force
* eBUG
* Leganto Working Group
Other:
* Archivematica
LTDS continued to work on various project and resolve INFORMS.
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.
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.
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
One of the benefits of using the same authentication system for both Alma and EZProxy is that we can offer true Single-Sign-On services. This is why we strongly encourage users to log into “My Account” first (“Sign In” on https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/).
This does assume the users have accounts in Alma – accounts that are using VUNet ID as their Primary Identifier and are set as External. By doing this, when users log into “My Account”, their information will automatically pass them through to other resources that they are authorized for.
If you have even used the web Outlook client, you might have noticed that it does not maintain the signature you might have set in your Outlook client on your desktop. This brief tutorial will help alleviate this.
First, log into https://email.vanderbilt.edu/ using your VUNet ID and password.
Look in the right-hand corner for “See all options” and click it.
This results in the following screen:
Now, click on “Settings”
The first box you see is the E-Mail Signature box. Put in here whatever you would like. What this does is that anytime you use the web client and you send out an email, it will add your signature to the bottom. It allows you to present yourself in a consistent manner.
LTDS began working on summer projects this week as well working on additional issues as the occurred.
Many in LTDS attended training and sessions at the ELUNA conference during the week. In addition, several from Vanderbilt took time to share our experience with colleagues from other libraries. Many thanks to the other team members that held down the fort.
