Category: Weekly Updates

Another busy week as LTDS continued to work on various projects and attempt to finish up a few items before the holidays.

 

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • Continued working on user account processes
  • Creating several reports in preparation of shutting down Acorn permanently on Friday.
  • Various discussions around Alma request forms
  • Autoloading of leisure reading materials
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Preparing Macs for roll-out and correct a few minor issues.
  • Updating inventory
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Scanning several requests
  • Completing the Nashville Voter
  • Continued to complete ingestion of the the last of ESSSS project and working towards migrating the system to different systems.
  • Reviewing Photo archive metadata
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Web day 2 items
  • ETANA export and cleanup
  • Completed first pass at  changing the TVNews search method on the TVNews website.
• Other (all):
  • Preparing for January Brown bag session
  • Various Informs
  • continued planning and testing for migrating ezproxy to new server
  • OJS Iris Journal of Scholarship went live

 

LTDS returned from the holidays and resumed work on various projects as well as reviewing inform requests.  Please let me know if you have any questions about open INFORM requests.

 

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • Work on recall requests in Alma and the notices
  • Continued work on Alma accounts and various issues related to the data feeds and external users (friends, alumni, etc.)
  • Discussions concerning normalization rules for external resources
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Replaced older hardware
  • Continued work on deploying new macbooks and creating the new image.
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Continued working on Nashville Voters and ingesting
  • Review of the new systems and methods for ingest
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Continued working on forms and changes to existing forms
• Other (all):
  • SEM migration
  • Fourwinds development
  • Ezproxy configuration file consolidation

 

LTDS team members took time off to be with family during the Thanksgiving week.    Although the team responded to urgent requests,  all team members were out of the office Thursday and Friday

 

 

The team continues to work  on various projects.   Take a moment and ask a LTDS team member about their current projects!

 

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • Continued to localize outward facing notification letters
  • Technical Migration cleanup
  • Working to add additional local collections
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Preparing new laptops
  • Working to deploy new version of deep freeze for the Mac
  • Ordered additional new equipment
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Started reorganizing scanned assets in order to allow streamlined ingestion of materials
  • Continued to migrate data to new system.
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Worked on several new forms and changes to existing forms
  • WordPress updates
  • Corrected several issues with the Bandy website
• Other (all):
  • Team members continued to work on various professional development tasks including local and national committees
  • Continued ezproxy migration
  • SEM Migration

 

LTDS continues to work towards reducing turn-around time for resolving issues.  Although each person in LTDS has areas that they are the go to person for,  we strive to have several people able to address most general issues.  This is one of the main reason we utilize INFORM, so that more staff members can see and address issues.

A few of the areas that LTDS worked on last week are:

 

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • Alma fulfillment issues
  • Accounts and discussion of procedures
  • cataloging/metadata support
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Resolving various mac and pc changes
  • Deploying new equipment
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Continued ingesting resources
  • Testing new Islandora install
  • ETD issues
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Adopt-a-book website going live
  • Working on purchase request form
• Other (all):
  • Re-branding of Discover Archive
  • Coordinating new phone lines
  • working on 401 organization

LTDS continued working on various projects  but also took some time for professional development.

 

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • Continued to update accounts
  • Tweaking of Law circulation policies
  • completing the documentation website for release
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Resolved various desktop issues and INFORMs
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Worked with vendor to continue with the modify the
  • Continued to ingest Nashville voters
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Adopt-a-book website
  • ETD assistance and accounts
  • MZO update
• Other (all):
  • LITA Committee work
  • Plurasight course
  • Updated several plugins and modules

 

Another busy week for the team.

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • implemented Laptop repair work order
  • Prepared for analytics training
  • review pseudo patron billing
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Resolved several workstation issues
  • Reviewed inventory
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • continued scanning Nashville Voter
  • Reorganized Helguera images
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Revised new user setup form in INFORM
  • Finalized Alma documentation site
• Other (all):
  • Attended Open Access Week sessions
  • Resolved several server related issues

LTDS continued work on various  projects including Alma.

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • Fulfillment policy adjustments
  • Laptop availability
  • Corrections of diacritics
  • Corrected OCLC numbers in the 035
  • Alma documentation site
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Resolved various desktop related INFORMS
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Created replacement PDFs
  • Working on methods to collect statistics for the lab
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Adopt a book website
  • Documentations site development
• Other (all):
  • Attending several meetings
  • LAC ballot
  • SEM migration project

 

INFORMS

LTDS continued turn more attention towards various digital collections while still working to maintain Alma and make additional adjustments.  The team also spent time reviewing and planning to move forward on many projects that had been put on hold for the ILS migration.  The team also had a chance to hold an upgrade session to answer questions concerning recent activities.

• Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
  • OCLC Holdings
  • Configuring automated invoicing
  • Alma user documentation
  • Work on the documentation website
• Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy)
  • Developing an automated windows provisioning script
  • Resolving various desktop issues
  • Deployed new hardware
  • Added software to EBL laptops
• Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
  • Setting up a new Exhibitions website
  • Continued to ingest items
  • Presented session on ingesting into Islandora
  • Scanning and ingesting  Nashville Voters
  • Changing MZO sort order
  • Working on issues with the ETDs
  • Working to re-brand DiscoverArchive
  • Continued to create Helguera pdfs
• Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
  • Adopt-a-book website
  • Applying patches to
• Other (all):
  • ALA Committee work
  • Working on libchat
  • Resolving various inform issues

LTDS continued to work on various issues in Alma but also prepared for the upgrade to Islandora and an informational session planned for October 9th.

 

Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)

• Revising letters and troubleshooting related issues
• Documentation website
• User management including Alumni

 

Desktop/Application support (Judy, All)

• resolving various desktop related issues
• preparing equipment for new staff
• reviewing

 

Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)

• Working on methods to collect publish metrics from the lab
• Continued scanning Owen Manager and Nashville Voter

Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)

• Adobt a book website development
• Documentation website
• Touchscreen changes

Other (all):

• SEM project work
• Adding additional quality checks the the image lab scanners
• updates to wordpress and drupal
• Various INFORM tickets and INFORM cleanup