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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…Read more LTDS October 27th – November 2nd 2019

  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. 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…Read more LTDS October 13th -19th 2019

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,…Read more LTDS September 29nd – October 5th 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

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…Read more LTDS July 7th – July 13th 2019

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…Read more How to add your signature in Web Outlook

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