LIS News / Blog

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.

LIS and the Dean’s Office are again partnering to offer “Enhancing Student Learning Through Information Literacy and Technology” for faculty June 3-6, 2013.

For those of you who have been following our March Book Madness competition, I am happy to announce that we have our top 64 titles selected thanks to Round 1 voting. These titles represent the top vote getters in the competition, where ties were broken using number of holdings in WorldCat as the deciding vote.

Curious to see what the 64 titles are? Visit our Facebook page.

Google is aware that many users are experiencing slowness when accessing their Google Drives. They are working to resolve the problem. You can check the Apps Status Dashboard for updates on their progress in resolving this issue.

Headline of the Week: MOOCs as On-Ramp/Demand Relief for Students (that start in California)

A very interesting leap occurred this week along the MOOC maturity vector. Proposed legislation in California (Senate Bill 520) would require California’s state colleges and universities (University of California, California State University and California’s community colleges) to accept credits earned via a subset of MOOCs. Presumably they would be a set of MOOCs whose quality had been vetted a priori by a faculty council, targeting current scarce general-education courses.

GoPrint stats for Fall 2012 and J-Term 2013 are now available. PDF copies of the reports can be found at http://lis.luther.edu/goprint and clicking on the GoPrint Semester and Yearly Reports.

Highlights

• Student Printing Usage: 404,441 (Fall), 62,786 (J-Term)
• Average Quota Used: 45.5% (Fall), 44.4% (J-Term)
• Overall Campus Printing Usage: 1,486,759 pages (Fall), 284,889 pages (J-Term)

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the Technology Help Desk at helpdesk@luther.edu.

We began a more focused discussion regarding liaison relationships with college programs and centers. For many years we have had liaison relationships with academic departments. Some liaison work is already underway with some of the centers and programs. Additional centers and programs were identified to explore a more intentional liaison relationship.

The student registration dates for Fall 2013 term will start Tuesday through Thursday, April 16 – 18 and the following Tuesday and Wednesday, April 23, 24 from 5:30 to 9:30 each evening.

Students will be getting their registration time from their adviser.

Students can check their registration clearance prior to their registration time on my.luther.edu

Last night at about 10:45PM a power supply failed in one of our internet routers. This disconnected us from one of our three Internet connecations and immediately caused a brief interruption for some users as the Internet traffic was routed to our other connections. For the remainder of the evening Internet service may have been slower than usual because we did not have all of our usual capacity available. Our service is now restored to full capacity.