Category: Updates

LTDS utilized the week to work on various projects that are projected to be for the spring semester.  The team also responded to several desktop issues due to illness and the students being out for the holiday. In addition,  the team spent time preparing systems for the holiday break and maximizing availability of resources to users.

 

• Alma/Primo
  • OCLC holding discussions
  • Troubleshooting process jobs in the sandbox (very slow)
  • Configuring the Primo Sandbox to correctly utilize SSO
• Desktop/Application support
  • Updated old MondoPad to Windows 10
  • Deploy new equipment
  • Updating deepfreeze on systems
• Digital Collections/Digital Preservation
  • Working on new theme for VUIR with the upgrade
  • Testing features of vireo
  • Assisting student OJS submissions
  • testing sword vs file deposits into Dspace
• Web/Web applications
  • typography refresh work
  • Continued Sharepoint cleanup
  • updates for wordpress and islandora (they never stop)
  • ILLiad work for SSO
• Other
  • several committee meetings
  • Meetings with A21

 

 

LTDS spent much of the week working on digital projects and preparing for the winter break including potential upgrades.  The team worked with VUIT to migrate an Oracle database to a new system.  This was the last item that needed to occur for us to completely delete the old Acorn server!

• Alma/Primo
  • Work order discussions and documentation
  • Presenting Leganto Webinars
  • OCLC publishing issues
  • Working to configure SSO in Primo Sandbox
• Desktop/Application support
  • AirWatch organization
  • Reviewing next refresh order
• Digital Collections/Digital Preservation
  • Responding to ETD questions
  • Revising development DSpace templates
  • Archivematica discussions
  • Fedora/islandora updates
• Web/Web applications
  • Typeography refresh
  • Continued cleanup of SharePoint permissions
• Other
  • Google Analytics extraction using python
  • Committee work (both internal and external committees)
  • Updated drupal sites
  • Update wordpress sites
  • Configure new server for ILLiad development
  • Review of LIBRO

 

 

 

 

The team was able to complete a few projects this week as well as prepare for an abbreviated work week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

REMINDER:  LTDS will be on-call during the holiday for emergencies.

• Alma/Primo
  • Analytics lab
  • Reviewing options for testing SSO in ILLiad
• Desktop/Application support
  • Prepared proposal for next round of replacements
  • Cleaned up the workstation OU in preparation for the new AD
  • Migrated all security groups to the new AD
• Digital Collections/Digital Preservation
  • Investigated how to best link into an Fedora audio object at a specific time.
  • Continued work on Archivematica
  • Made significant progress with needed ArchivesSpace changes after determining an issue with the online documentation.
• Web/Web applications
  • Migrated Heard Alert to mailpoet 3
  • Worked on Researchguides design
  • Continued to work on the SharePoint cleanup project
  • Dev2 setup and troubleshooting
• Other
  • Assist with LAC voting including setting up the computers
  • Various committees

 

LTDS spend time during the week to migrate it’s internal communication from Slack to Microsoft Teams.  This included significant with with Flow to provide access to the RSS feeds and changing habits as far as communication.    In addition,  the team was able to continue work on various projects including the items below.

 

• Alma/Primo
  • Alumni Access issues
  • Continue troubleshooting OCLC holding issues
• Desktop/Application support
  • Moving applications from libvm11 to libvm15
  • Developed list of needed upgrades for the next round of replacements
• Digital Collections/Digital Preservation
  • ArchivesSpace changes and corrections
• Web/Web applications
  • WordPress updates
  • Reviewing issues with Mailpoet 3 and proposing upgrading
  • Setup new development environment for Omni
• Other
  • 3D Brain update
  • Deep dive into Microsoft Flow
  • Migrated ArcGIS to new server

The team enjoyed another week of catching up on various issues and planning for retiring older VMs.  This week, among other items the team worked on setting up two new VMs as future hosts for migrated library applications.

 

• Alma/Primo
  • Working with VUMC on potential issues with email accounts in December
  • User access issues  (Alma and EZProxy)
  • Issues with Japanese holding updates
• Desktop/Application support
  • Prepare DVRs for TVNews
  • Setup MS Surface for evaluation
• Digital Collections/Digital Preservation
  • Prepared and presented session to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day
  • Starting migrating changes in DSpace to new DSpace instance for testing
• Web/Web applications
  • Mail Poet plugin issues
  • Staff Purchase request
  • Updated lectionary
• Other
  • Evaluate proposal for LTDS to move conversations from Slack to Team
  • Migrating ArcGIS to new server and upgrading OS
  • Various training and committee sessions.

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 personnel have been diligently working on various projects from across various areas. To name a few:

• • Desktop:
    • Office 365 installation
    • Laptop/Desktop deployments
  • Alma/Primo VE:
    • Testing Fisk user loads
    • Cleaning up user records
    • Circulation/Reserve Desk
  • Digital Collections:
    • TVNews – Accessibility issues
    • TVNews – Forgotten password project
    • Fine arts exhibits
  • Web/Web applications:
    • Clickable room maps
  • Committees:
    • LITA
    • ELUNA Developers Day
    • Exhibits System Task Force
  • Training:
    • Bootstrap 4
    • XSLT/XQuery

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

 

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

 

 

 

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