This Week in LIS - 25 May 2007
Upcoming Dates
- May 30: LIS Forum: 2007-08 Software Load (Mott @ 9:00am)
- May 31: Annual Report Deadline
- July 25: Summer Planning Day
- August 13: Staff Day
LIS Forum: 2007-08 Software Load
On Wednesday, we’ll gather to discuss software for 2007-08 … more specifically what versions of what software we’ll be installing where. This will be most approrpriate for Academic Technology, Help Desk, Training and User Systems, though others are welcome to attend as well. Conversation may also include how best to consolidate lists of supported software and how to determine across the organization supported versions and upgrade schedules.
8:45s for Next Week
We’ll hold virtual meetings Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday due to the change in our Forum date to Tuesday. I will be out Thursday and Friday next week, so if User Systems can lead Thursday’s meeting and Academic Tech/Library lead Friday’s meeting, I’d appreciate it.
Google Search Appliance – find.luther.edu
Our new search appliance has arrived and is now crawling and serving search results for the Luther web as available from on-campus. You can search the engine at find.luther.edu. In just a few hours, the crawler indexed more than 65,000 pages, and the collection continues to be trimmed and pruned to eliminate duplicate content. Indexing of KATIE was stopped because of how the URL structures are designed to include PHP session ids, which cause crawlers to index the same content multiple times. The next step for us will be to consider how to index and make available more secure content and to work with publications to integrate it into the upcoming ActiveCampus rollout. We have quite a bit of flexibility in how we manage and serve results. But for now, if you’re looking for something on the Luther web, find.luther.edu is a speedy way to find it.
MISO Data
I’ve created a new Basecamp project called MISO (available to everyone this weekend) where I’ll publish out some of the compiled data from our survey. This includes the overall percentages I’ve shared earlier, but also the comparative data with 29 other schools who have taken the survey. I encourage you to review this data and think about what it means and how we should act on it. We’ll discuss that in more detail this summer at our planning meeting. For “overall computing service,” Luther ranks 4th (faculty), 12th (students), and 5th (staff). For “overall library services,” Luther ranks 2nd (faculty), 10th (students), and 8th (staff).
Join the LIS Planning Discussions on KATIE
Access the KATIE LIS Strategic Planning site by clicking http://katie.luther.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=3069
Subscribe to all forums (receive emails for each posting) that interest you by:
- Clicking “Forums” under the Activities block – all forums will be listed
- Under the “Subscribed” column header, click the “No” link for any forums to which you wish to be subscribed. Alternatively, click the “Yes” link to unsubscribe to that forum.
- Click the “TWILIS” portion of the breadcrumbs link in the page header to return to the LIS Strategic Planning KATIE site
To receive all the day’s forum posts in one, digest-type email (rather than a separate email for each posting):
- Scroll the bottom of any KATIE page – you’ll see “Logged in as” followed by your login name.
- Click on your login name link (not the “Logout” link) – you’ll be taken to your KATIE profile page
- Click the “Edit Profile” tab link – your profile settings will be displayed
- Select your desired “Email Digest Type” (the 9th item down in the Profile list).
- Scroll to the bottom and click the “Update Profile” button.
No TWILIS on June 1
I will be out of the office next Wednesday afternoon through Friday. TWILIS will resume publication on June 8th.
Cool Resource of the Week: Senduit
If you’ve got a big file to send to/share with others and don’t want to clog email inboxes, there are several web-based solutions that offer solutions. Senduit.com is probably one of the easiest, evidenced by their two step process — upload your file, and share your link. No accounts need to be created, and no one needs to know who you are or what you’re sharing. You simply choose the file to upload and the length of time you want it to live on their server. It will deliver you a private URL where the file can be downloaded for the specified period of time (30 minutes to a week). Can’t get much easier than that.
Around the Web
Here are a few links to interesting developments over the past week:
SEC Suspends Trading for 35 Companies Due to Spam [PC World]
http://tinyurl.com/yw5ykt
Reaping Results: Data-Mining Goes Mainstream [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/289k3o
Firefox and the Anxiety of Growing Pains [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/yoma36
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? [New York Times]
http://tinyurl.com/3cvbre
Google Reach Deals with News Websites [Sunday Herald]
http://tinyurl.com/3637y8
Google Denies New UK News Search Deal [Search Engine Land]
http://tinyurl.com/ynqslv
What the Copyright Office Thinks is Fair Use [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/2hcblt
Sustainability is the New Driver of Innovation [BusinessWeek]
http://tinyurl.com/yo8umd
ARIN: It’s Time to Migrate to IPv6 [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/2×594e
Expert: IT Industry has Failed in IT Security [c|net News]
http://tinyurl.com/2vfue6
The Four Habits of Highly Effective Academic Librarians [Chronicle of Higher Education]
http://tinyurl.com/23hpkv
A Professor Pokes Fun at Copyright [Chronicle of Higher Education]
http://tinyurl.com/yvxdlx
Looking for Male Students [Inside Higher Ed]
http://tinyurl.com/yt8ysv
The Graduates [Comment] [The New Yorker]
http://tinyurl.com/2eqqbj
Study: More Spam but Fewer Complaints [Yahoo! News]
http://tinyurl.com/yvfx2h
RIAA: Radio Needs to Pay Up [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/ynnfhj
$100 Million Payday for Feedburner [TechCrunch]
http://tinyurl.com/2fopyv
I-SPY With My Little Eye … A New Spyware Act [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/2gnauh
Proof-of-Concept Virus Gives Insight into OpenOffice.org Security Failings [ars technica]
http://tinyurl.com/yowyeq
Google Bans Essay Writing Adverts [BBC News]
http://tinyurl.com/ywloyj
More Questions Than Answers: Decades of Problems Culminate in Exposed Personal Information (Ohio University IT Failings) [The Post Online]
http://tinyurl.com/yoaosb
Google’s Relentless Rise [ValleyWag]
http://tinyurl.com/yw9bpk
Google Gets Trendy [Read/WriteWeb]
http://tinyurl.com/3dqssx
Another Cost for Students Accused of Internet Piracy: Fees to Reconnect to Campus Networks [Chronicle of Higher Education]
http://tinyurl.com/28f2lz
Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections [D-Lib]
http://tinyurl.com/25qzxf
RSS in Plain English [blip.tv]
http://tinyurl.com/3cmc7a
Cheating Across Cultures [Inside Higher Ed]
http://tinyurl.com/3y68lr
Time For Academic Librarians to Tune In to the Semantic Web [ACRLog]
http://tinyurl.com/ypp5hp
Dell to Sell Computers at Wal-Mart [Yahoo! News]
http://tinyurl.com/2bauxd
Free Computer Virus Finds Willing Victims [Yahoo! News]
http://tinyurl.com/2xp4t6
Feature Presentation (on feature creep and simplicity) [The New Yorker]
http://tinyurl.com/25ojjt
New Tool Screens Spam, Digitizes Books [ZDnet]
http://tinyurl.com/2d6xyc
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