LIS News

In the coming week, LIS will launch a recruitment for a Web Programmer/Analyst on the Application Development team. Full information regarding the recruitment is available on the LIS Recruiting website. Anyone with questions regarding the recruitment or interest in the position should talk with myself or Marcia Gullickson. Further updates on the recruitment will be shared as they are available.

In lieu of our normal LIS General meeting for November (next Wednesday November 4), we will meet in the Olin Round Table room to participate in a live video event from EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver. The session will be Collaboration Is Strategy led by Brad Wheeler, the Vice President for IT, CIO and Professor at Indiana University.

His talk will begin at 9:15. Refreshments will be available in the 3rd Floor faculty lounge.

The ten Windows PCs outside the SASC office have had their monitors upgraded from 17” CRTs to 19” Widescreen LCDs.

In the upcoming weeks, LIS will be deploying the GoPrint Print Management Client to all faculty/staff Windows based workstations across campus via the KACE KBOX. This process is done remotely and runs in the background. A user will not notice an interruption and no interaction is required on their part. Once deployed to a user’s machine, the GoPrint icon will appear in their system tray. The application will lay dormant until LIS enables GoPrint on their department’s respective printers. LIS will contact all departments before enabling GoPrint.

The database error Katie was displaying has been remedied.

Thank you for your patience.

We are currently experiencing problems with the Katie server. Users have reported an inability to log into any accounts. This is affecting Staff and Students.

Press release regarding grant opportunities:

WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley said today that the Institute of Museum and Library Services is offering grant opportunities through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant program and the 2010 Museums for America Grant program.

“Libraries and museums are building blocks for communities to learn and grow,” Grassley said.

Full text of the proclamation (available here ).

Every day, we are inundated with vast amounts of information. A 24-hour news cycle and thousands of global television and radio networks, coupled with an immense array of online resources, have challenged our long-held perceptions of information management. Rather than merely possessing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation.

LexisNexis Academic is now available to our users. This database provides full-text access to over 6,000 business, legal and news sources from around the world.

You can find LNA at this link:
http://proxy.luther.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnac... or by searching Encore and Magnus. It is also listed on the Library Research page in the “by Resource Type” pulldown menu under Newspapers and Current News.

As a result of this new subscription we have retired our subscription to Westlaw Campus Research.

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