LIS News / Blog

Although we have said good-bye to the month of March, our book competition continues. This morning I posted our most recent winners on the bracket by Research Help. They are as follows:

1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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This morning the Jenson Lab was upgraded to gigabit ethernet connections.

For those of you following the March Book Madness competition, our Sweet Sixteen have been selected and are now going head to head in Round 4 of voting. To log your favorites in Round 4, visit the Google Form here by Saturday, March 30th at Midnight.

We are hosting a finalist on-campus interview for the LIS Help Desk Lead position on Wednesday, March 27th. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend the group presentation for Carsten Earl which is scheduled for 10:00-10:45am Wednesday, March 27, in Hovde Lounge.

The literary voting continues this week with a very quick Round 3 in our March Book Madness competition here in Preus. Stop by the Research Help Desk to see the current status of our brackets and log your choices for Round 3 here.

Note: Deadline for voting in this round is short (just over 24 hours), you must log your votes by tomorrow (Tuesday, March 26th) at Noon to be counted!

Headline of the Week: Digital Technology Helping the Liberal Arts?

The Midwest Regional Educause conference was held in Chicago Monday through Wednesday (March 18-20, 2013) this week. The ACM IT and Library Leaders meeting was scheduled to leverage those attending Educause for a meeting Wednesday afternoon.

It is always encouraging and inspiring to get to know others with similar concerns and additional ideas and points of view and alternative perspectives.

Present: Matt H, Matt B, Bob E, Matt H, Eddy, Jennifer S, Jennifer R, Diane

• LIS Summer Faculty Workshop – We are accepting applications for the Summer Faculty Workshop entitled, “Enhancing Student Learning Through Information Literacy and Technology” which is scheduled for June 3 through June 6 this summer (Monday through Thursday).

This morning network connections for the library computer lab on 2nd floor were upgraded to 10/100/1000Mbps (gigabit) connections. Many of the other ethernet ports in the building were moved to being served by a newer model of 10/100Mbps network switch.

On Friday, March 29th (Good Friday), LIS will be upgrading our Network Access Control System. This work will begin at 7:00 am and is expected to be completed before noon. During this time, users may be unable to connect to the LCWireless and LCWireless5G networks. The LCGuest wireless network and the Wired network will remain available during the upgrade. Check http://lis.luther.edu/blog for updates on the upgrade’s progress.