Blogs

We swapped vacant channels with Decorah’s Mediacom so that additional digital channels can viewed with TVs equipped with digital converters here on the campus (good for the students in the dorms). We gave them Channel 52 and they gave us Channel 42 for our use.

With a new app from Crestron, today’s iPhones can control almost anything, below is an except from Crestron eNews.

Now available for download from the iTunes® App Store, Crestron Mobile Pro™ combines the capabilities of Crestron Mobile™ – to view home or office alarm status and adjust lights and room temperatures – with even greater power and flexibility for whole house control, including pre-set audio and lighting scenes, home entertainment, pool/spa and more.

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

September 21, 2009, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

Present: Chris, Andi, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca.

Andi reported on her sabbatical projects, which included the following: investigate indexing and digitization for Bass World, the magazine of the International Society of Bassists; attend the Music Library Association annual meeting (Feb.

Join us for an artist reception for David Esslemont, award-winning British artist, on Wednesday, September 30th from 3:30-5:30pm in Hovde Lounge.

Esslemont now lives in Iowa and works from his studio north of Decorah. “I am passionate about books – my aim is to make books that are not only a pleasure to read, but a delight to all the senses.”

The exhibit, “David Esslemont: Artist, Designer, Printer, Bookbinder” can be viewed on the third floor of Preus Library until October 16th.

The two podium computers in Mott and Borlaug have been upgraded from Dell Optiplex GX280s to Dell Optiplex 760s. The network connections the two computers use have also been switched from wireless to wired.

Headline of the Week: The Future: What Google Is Really Up To

Each summer LIS spends a day discussing, planning, and visioning our work for the coming year. The tangible results of this work take their form in our objectives which spell out specific initiatives we plan to focus on for the coming academic year.

The follow system updates occurred over the past week:

• Patches applied to Illiad OS.
• Created an instance of Omeka for testing by LIS staff.

NITLE offers the following sessions on Moodle:

“Moving Faculty to the Moodle Big Leagues with All-Star Training,” Friday, October 2, 2009, at 12 noon Eastern time/11 Central time/10 Mountain time/9 Pacific time. An online program via MIV in NITLE’s series “Special Topics for Instructional Technologists and their Colleagues”. Early registration deadline is Friday, September 18, 2009. This program is intended for instructional technologists or other staff who support Moodle use on campus.

We manage our internet connection with a piece of equipment called a NetEqualizer. The NetEqualizer’s job is to ensure that all of our internet users share the available bandwidth in a fair manner. One way it does this is to limit the number of simultaneous network connections that each computer can make.

Present: Matt H, Matt B, Lynnette, Ryan, Rebecca, Bob P, Larry, Matt H, Diane

• Insight Demo – Demonstration of Faronics Insight classroom control system (http://www.faronics.com/html/Insight.asp) is scheduled for Tuesday, September 22nd at 1 p.m for faculty who use M113 and M114.
• LIS Mixer – Reviewed plans for the October 1st gathering intended to introduce LIS student workers and staff to each other.
• LIS Website Upgrade – Ready for testing of Drupal 6, the new version of the software running the LIS website. More information regarding the URL for testing will be forthcoming.