Category: Weekly Updates

LTDS September 23-29 2018

The team continued to work on various issues related to systems including Alma.  In addition,  LTDS began planning for informational session in a couple of week.

 

Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)

  • Continued work on documentation site
  • revising letters and troubleshooting
  • User management

Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy, Jamen)

  • Ordering new equipment
  • Updating/cleaning up the inventory.

 

Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)

  • Continued to ingest  collections
  • Preparing servers for Islandora upgrade/migration

Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)

  • Work on the Adopt-a-book site
  • Updating wordpress

Other (all):

  • Troubleshooting bitmovin and filesystem issues
  • 3-D printing
  • Resolving various reported issues.

 

 

LTDS Sept16.-22nd

LTDS continues to work on known issues in Alma as well as new issues as they are discovered.  In addition,  LTDS worked on other projects and issues related to future migrations and current digital collections.

 

Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)

  • Configured requests for Alma
  • Cleanup projects
  • Continued to work on documentation
  • Worked on access issues with some accounts

Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy, Jamen)

  • Beta testing new version of DeepFreeze on the Mac  (this will allow us to update the MacOS to the newest
  • Deployed new laptops to some staff

Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)

  • Continued uploading items
  • Prepared several scanning requests for ingest
  • Reviewed needed changes for Islandora and started the process
  • Added images for the collection level folders

Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)

  • Meetings and continued work on the Adopt-a-book project
  • Working on placing events calendar into the library template.
  • Worked on Divinity exhibit

Other (all):

  • Started work on the SEM project
  • Continued review various projects  that have been delayed
  • Worked on various informs.

 

INFORMs resolved during the week

 

LTDS the September 9-14, 2018

This week LTDS spent a great deal of time working on Alma projects  and web cleanup projects.  In addition the team started to review non-Alma related projects and organizing a list of current Alma cleanup projects.

 

Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)

  • Working on documentation and training materials for Analytics
  • Continue to work on cleanup projects,  since the sandbox is partially available additional tests are possible
  • Ongoing work to setup roles in Alma and standardize the workflow.

Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy, Jamen)

  • Deploy several new machines and reviewed hardware needs
  • Updated Mac OS in the Central Lobby
  • Investigated using the beta Mac deep freeze client

Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)

  • Continued to add materials to both Digital Collections and Slave Societies
  • Work on the Adopt-a-book project
  • Added new Silas Clack collection.
  • Met with DGI to discuss next steps in the Islandora Audit

Web/Web applications (Jodie, Jamen, Matt)

  • Work on the Adopt-a-book project
  • Continued to work on interface accessibility improvements for the public site.
  • Worked on requested changes to the ArchivesSpace user interface,

Other (all):

  • Resolving various issues reported through INFORM
  • Reviewing outstanding projects

 

INFORMs resolved during the week

LTDS August 26 – August 30

LTDS continued to work on cleanup projects in Alma and finalize (for now) various configurations.  The team is also reviewing projects that have been tabled — including deploying additional laptops to staff and for circulation.

This week we also had our students return!!   Please welcome Jonah, Sam, Gabriel, Maya, and  Cindy!

A few of the items this week were:

Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)

  • Revised several notices including Acquisitions notices
  • Removed XXX users (old staff accounts from Sirsi)
  • Continued to work on clean-up projects including the duplicate charges
  • Suppresses more that 65,000 items from display that were in the withdrawn location.

Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt)

  • Deployed a few new workstations

Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)

  • DIL got up to full speed with a working plan for scanning
  • Continued to upload items into the system

 

Web/Web applications  (Jodie, Matt)

  • Added error checking on the web site to prevent issues caused by other servers crashing
  • Started discussions and plans for the adopt-a-book site
  • Continued accessibility improvements.
  • Launch of the news desk

Other (all):

  • Students returned!  Work with them to alert them of changes,
  • triage inform tickets and feedback form
  • Alumni access issues

Inform tickets resolved through Thursday.

 

 

LTDS August 19 – 25, 2018

Although work on Alma issues continue in LTDS, the team was able to address a few other areas last week.  Please let us know if you have questions about other LTDS activities.

Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)

  • Continued to address issues from migration including clean-up projects
  • Revised user letters/notices
  • Correct circulation transactions
  • Worked on EDI ordering/invoiceing

 

Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt)

  • Setup Macs
  • Imaged and deployed additional machines

Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)

  • Ingested ESSS and Commodore  collections
  • Worked on issues associated with displaying PDFS
  • Started rebuilding solr index
  • Shifted DIL workflow to Adobe
  • Scanned items for exhibit

Web/Web applications  (Jodie, Matt)

  • edited javascript
  • Addresses issues from the feedback form
  • Added to documentation

Other:

  • Upgraded archivesspace
  • continued work on AD cleanup
  • Worked with VUIT to hand-off A/V Support
  • Worked to revised the VURJ

 

LTDS August 6th – 10th 2018

The team continued to review  INFORM requests and prioritize various tickets and began to work on reducing some of the back-log.  Beyond working on INFORM tickets and communicating various project status, the team also worked on many items including:

  • Alma/Primo (Nancy, Jamen, Tao)
    • Completed loading missing items
    • Started configuration of Proquest EDI
    • Continued to create/modify user roles as needed
  • Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott)
    • Continued to load ESSSS and Commodores to reduce back-log
    • Reviewing display changes in Archives Space
    • Scanned materials for Curator talk
  • Web (Jodie and Matt)
    • Continued to work on reported issues with areas of the new website
    • Adjust some text on the TVNews  website
    • Worked on Google Tag Manager configuration
  • Other items (All)
    • Caught up on ETDs
    • Met with Discover Garden to discuss audit process
    • Re-image and replace several older computers
    • Attended several meetings with others in the library and on campus.
    • Began preparing for migrating the library SharePoint environment to the new version
    • Started review of the Library Active Directory (AD) Organizational Unit (OU) in preparation for the new directory services (project Genesis)