In September 2019, Digital Strategies implemented a typography refresh for all Vanderbilt websites, introducing improvements such as larger, simpler fonts and increased content area width in order to stay current with modern web trends. On Tuesday, January 21 LTDS will apply these changes to the Libraries’ public website. In addition to the changes provided by this refresh, we’ve taken the opportunity to refine certain page elements, such as the right sidebar you see on the Heard and division homepages. Here are a couple of preview shots: As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
LTDS January 5th – 11th 2020
Happy New Year! The LTDS team were all back this week and eager to resume working on current projects as well as looking forward to new opportunities in 2020. It was also great to have our students return from winter break! LTDS worked on several projects and issues during the week including: Alma/Primo Created course reserve work order Revising metadata normalization rules Pulling vendor data from Alma Working on enumeration cleanup project Desktop/Application support Ordered new equipment Setup computers and videos for Fine Arts Gallery Moved forward with the deepfreeze project (this will update the clients on all of the…Read more LTDS January 5th – 11th 2020
LTDS December 8th – 14th 2019
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…Read more LTDS December 8th – 14th 2019
LTDS December 2nd – 7th 2019
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…Read more LTDS December 2nd – 7th 2019
Happy Thanksgiving
Many in LTDS took time off this week to spend with family, friends, and stand in line for Friday. LTDS wishes everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving Day and abundance of joy )and projects) in the coming year!
LTDS November 17th 2019 – November 23rd 2019
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…Read more LTDS November 17th 2019 – November 23rd 2019
LTDS November 10th 2019 – November 16th 2019
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…Read more LTDS November 10th 2019 – November 16th 2019
LTDS November 3rd 2019 – November 10th 2019
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…Read more LTDS November 3rd 2019 – November 10th 2019
LTDS October 27th – November 2nd 2019
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 October 20th -26th 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.