LIS News

This fall, administrative management of the Round Table Room will move to LIS. This has formerly been coordinated out of the President’s Office by Karen Martin-Schramm. LIS has already partnered to provide technical support for the room, and recently Rebecca Sullivan and Diane Gossman have received facilitator training. The room coordinator Ann Mansfield will continue to provide assistance with outside groups using the space. LIS will continue supporting other needs for the facility as they arise.

The library will close for a brief period at 5:00pm this afternoon for a planned power outage related to yesterday’s outage. The facility will reopen as soon as power is again restored. Thank you for your patience as we work to ensure power to the facility.

Temporary power has been restored to the library facility. Normal hours have resumed and the building is open for use.

We are awaiting delivery of power cables to connect a generator to the building wiring to temporarily power the library. Provided cables are delivered and installed on time, we will attempt to open the facility at 7:00pm this evening.

A temporary transformer has also been located and will be delivered to campus very soon. Our time on the generator should therefore be relatively short.

We will update with additional information as it is available.

The power went out in the library at around 7:30 am. Until temporary power can be restored, the library facility is closed. Individuals needing access to the collection can come to the main door and request assistance. The Help Desk remains open via telephone at extension 1000. The facility will reopen once power is restored.

A new issue of Academic Commons (published in partnership with NITLE) includes a profile of CLAMP (The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project), a team which Bob Puffer has been active with (he’s even listed as a co-author of this article).

On the web: http://www.academiccommons.org/issue/september-2009

Articles featured in this issue of Academic Commons include:

• “War News Radio” by Abdulla A. Mizead.

Decorah Mobile Glass will be working on the windows on the east side of the tower starting August 17, 2009. They will be on campus setting up scaffolding on Thursday, August 13th and Friday, August 14th.

Applications are already being received for the 2010 academic year from students using CommonApp.org Luther College will be using the Common Application online for next year’s class. Ben Wilbur and Cindy Goede created the import process for Admissions staff to process files from CommonApp.org and update the information into the Colleague Admissions system. Luther College will start admitting students on September 1st.

The Google Search Appliance (find.luther.edu) is now configured to index documents and sites in Norse Apps that are shared with the public. For instance, if you search for “kiva” you now receive results from https://sites.google.com/a/luther.edu/kiva/.

On Friday, February 20th LIS configured Sophos Enterprise Console to monitor all Campus Workstations Sophos status. This will give LIS the capability to keep our Network free from Viruses and Trojans. The Sophos Enterprise Console will give us a new Tool for Network Virus Protection.
On Monday, March 17 LIS included all Faculty Workstations by a Sophos batch file being run on Faculty computers at login time. This will not affect Macs at this time.