In order to comply with our rule that ADs are not team members, Mike Lynch has stepped down as leader of the Digital Archives Team. Rachel Manning is the new Team Leader. Mike remains available as a resource for the Team.
Submitted by Mike Lynch
On Wednesday, April 15th Barbara Herzog from Innovtive will be here to give a demo of their Encore product. The demo will take place in LIB 145 at 10:00 a.m. We saw a demo of this product some time ago but it has evolved a good bit since then.
This is just one of several products we are looking at which will enhance discovery of the resources we have to offer.
Submitted by Mike Lynch
If you attended Carol’s budget meeting on Tuesday, you already know there are plans afoot to migrate away from Novell’s Netware to Microsoft Windows DFS (Distributed File System) for networked access to files. Many more details will be available shortly but this post will serve as a heads-up.
To test the new system we will migrate all of the LIS/ITS files from Snowleopard, as well as all personal files for LIS staff from Tigercat (drive U:) to DFS on Thursday night, April 9th. When you log in Friday morning you will be asked if you want to uninstall Novell — you should answer yes to this question.
As noted, more details will be available soon. Meanwhile, please post any questions as comments to this post so everyone can see the answers.
Submitted by Mike Lynch
Stephen Abram has a nice post on his blog Stephen’s Lighthouse called Compare and Contrast. It links to two powerpoint presentations from Lee Rainie at the 2009 CES Consumer Electronics Show. One is Baby Boomers in the Digital Age and the other is Teens and the Internet.
A Powerpoint presentation from the LibrarianInBlack.
Bryan Alexander has an interesting post on the NITLE blog, Liberal Education Today.
Submitted by Mike Lynch
Submitted by Mike Lynch
Just a friendly reminder to please help us test our implementation of Libraryfind. As mentioned in a post on August 30th, we are experimenting with this open source application which allows search across multiple resources.
It’s not ready for public consumption just yet, but we are making it available for testing by LIS staff. You’ll see five choices: Digital & Print Undergraduate Theses, Images & Multimedia, Middlebury College Abernethy Collections, Library Catalogs and TEST Collection Group. The first choice searches all of the NITLE Dspace thesis collections, as well as the Special Collections thesis database on Concerto. The second searches 12 different collections, some in ContentDM and some in Concerto. The third searches the Abernethy Collections on ContentDM. Library Catalogs currently searches Midcat only. We are testing various journal indexes in the TEST Collection Group, although currently none of those work.
Barbara is trying to identify and fix these problems, and Bryan Carson is working on making the interface more Middlebury blue.