Library Technology and Digital Services (LTDS) Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 (October 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022)
This second quarter of fiscal year 2023 was busy for the team but they also had the opportunity to take a break for the holidays. The team was able to complete several projects (tasks requiring more than 40 hours of work) and still resolve an impressive number of INFORM tickets.
A few of the projects that LTDS completed during the past quarter are:
- Completed implementing new campus branding on LTDS managed sites.
- Brings the library into compliance with campus guidelines.
- Performed an additional upgrade of ArchivesSpace and continued work to integrate with other systems.
- Assures that security patches are applied and allows us to continue to work towards a more inclusive discovery environment.
- Completed cleanup of diacritics for the Green Glass process
- This was required for the project to move forward.
- Completed testing of the AWS storage gateway
- The AWS Storage Gateway (ASG) will provide growth opportunities for the library digital collections.
- Completed migration of common area phones
- Created new quarterly report site for ACE
- This new site will enable ACE to publish information about the library.
- Upgraded all Omeka instances
- Created display for Occuspace data
- Provides a tool to determine where study space is available.
- Officially completed Alma-D implementation
- Alma-D allows users to access some items, such as digital scores, directly through Primo.
- Completed automation of BPA record additions to Fedora.
- Completed updates to the staff directory
- This updated to staff information with contact changes that have occurred over the last few years. The form remains available for future changes.
- Implemented new solution for email processing in INFORM
Partnerships:
LTDS continues to work with other groups in the libraries, on campus, and in the broader library community. Selected partnerships during the first quarter are listed below.
- ACE on the web migration project. This project is co-chaired by Jodie Gambill and Kristina Bisbee and will migrate the primary library website from Omni to WordPress.
- SCUA and Digital Preservation to develop improved workflows for assuring that digital collections are preserved and discoverable.
- VUIT Genesis project to complete migration of library application authentication to the new campus system. These changes allow us to continue to use VUNetIDs for authentication.
- PSI and Center for Teaching to maintain LTI integration between Leganto and Brightspace.
- Digital Strategies to utilize the new campus web templates and deploy the new server.
- VUIT Cloud Services team and VUIT Storage team to explore storage options for the growing needs for library digital collections.
- VUIT Desktop Engineering continued collaboration to support library staff and circulating laptops.
LTDS by the numbers:
- Number of Proxy Sessions: 162,713
- Number of Informs Resolved: 452
- Number of servers managed: 35+
- Number of items added to Fedora: 73,482
- Number of sites and applications managed: 150+
During the coming months LTDS will continue to work on several projects including:
- Creating a set of tools for staff to assist in sharing metadata from digital objects between systems
- Continued work to migrate resources from older systems to current technologies.
- Increased transparency concerning storage use
- Migrate additional digital content to the storage gateway
