LTDS Update December 9-15th 2018

LTDS team members spend time this week preparing for shutting down Acorn and SFX servers.  The team also had several conversations about internal workflows and ways to improve the services we offer.

 

  • Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao)
    • Special collection item request and Alma booking form
    • Continued work with Alma accounts and user records
    • Loading records into Alma
    • Prepared for Acorn and SFX final shutdown on Dec. 14th.
  • Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott, Nancy)
    • Continued to utilize new ingestion method and develop processes
    • Assisting students submitting ETDs
    • Taking care of several scanning requests
  • Web/Web applications (Jodie, Scott, Matt)
    • Completed rewrite of TVNews search
    • Worked on setting up/designing 2 wordpress sites
    • Create interface for Music recital requests
  • Other (all):
    • Completed inventory of laptops
    • cleaned up 401 before our students leave for the holidays
    • Met with Joseph in the Fine Arts Gallery to discuss technology needs
    • Consultation with faculty member concerning HathiTrust Data capsules
    • Working with FourWinds
    • Continued work on EzProxy server migration and workflow changes