Category: Weekly Updates

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 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.

 

 

• 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 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 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 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

 

Welcome to summer, when changes happen even faster than normal!  This past week,  many in LTDS spent time working to reconfigure printers for all staff in the libraries.  In the majority of the cases,  this was a quick change but in other cases (such as when a card swipe is not needed) this continues to require work.  We still have a few printers in which we are waiting for a new printer package to be created by the card office.  Once the package is delivered,  we will quickly get it installed.  Let LTDS know if you continue to encounter printer issues.

 

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Tao)
  • User fines and new notification letter
  • New titles development
  • Alumni user issues
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Scott, Jamen)
  • Various printer issues
  • Updating public laptops
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Ingest MEDCOM
  • Housekeeping in the lab
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Created portable header/footer to be used for other websites
  • Launched new Gallery website
• Other (all):
  • Documentation for Divinity A/V Cart
  • Started prioritizing summer projects
  • Continued to review AD and SCCM device inventories

Do you regularly read the LTDS activities and/or blog posts?  Do you find the information helpful?  Is there other information you would like to see posted?  Please let us know!

 

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Tao)
  • Continued work and troubleshooting of user access issues
  • Reviewing procedures and possible summer changes
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Scott, Jamen)
  • New Gallery printer
  • various informs
  • Planning for support projects
  • AirWatch
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Trained new student in the lab
  • Captured Helguera documents
  • Continued with the VUMC Reporter
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • New technology web page
  • Additional changes to the staff directory
  • Preparing for the Gallery website migration
• Other (all):
  • Changes to four winds display to cleanup display
  • Hiring new students
  • Placing final order for equipment this fiscal year
  • Applying wordpress and drupal updates.

Many in LTDS spent significant time planning for presentations and training the week of April 28th.  The also continued discussions concerning summer projects. Other activities include:

 

• Alma/Primo
  • users issues in Alma
  • Analytics work
• Desktop/Application support
  • Various laptop issues
  • New employee setup
• Digital Collections
  • Ingested French Tarot cards
  • Discussions surrounding Islandora 8
• Web/Web applications
  • Fine Arts website
  • Reviewing resolving random errors on the public website.
• Other
  • Carpentries workshop
  • VSA training
  • Resolving LDAP issues in Islandora
  • AirWatch testing

 

LTDS resolved several INFORM requests and hope to be able to migrated INFORM to a new sever soon.

We are also reviewing current project proposals to determine if any can be resolved before summer.  Please contact us if you have questions for for the team or projects for the summer.

 

• Alma/Primo
  • Reviewing metadata schemas and possible ingest into Primo
  • NCIP/ILLiad development work
  • Final review for NERS enhancements
• Desktop/Application support
  • AirWatch testing
  • Ordering additional equipment
  • Troubleshooting phone issues
  • CrashPlan Testing
• Digital Collections
  • Review of Islandora 8 and determining our next steps
  • Cropping and capturing Helguera and Medical Center Reports
  • New workpress site for upcoming exhibit
• Web/Web applications
  • Organizational chart tweaks
  • Form-manager (new way to develop forms) development work.
• Other (all):
  • Preparing for several upcoming sessions (Town Hall, ELUNA, eBUG, LTDS Update session)
  • Attending demo for a possible replacement to both FourWinds and WordPress for exhibits and wayfinding