LIS News

LIS is now accepting applications for the position of Help Desk Specialist on our User Services and Help Desk teams. A position description and recruiting ad are available online at http://lis.luther.edu/recruiting/helpdeskspecialist2008

LIS is now accepting applications for the position of Programmer Analyst on our Application Development team. A position description and recruiting ad are available online at http://lis.luther.edu/recruiting/programmeranalyst2008.

A list of draft objectives for 2008-09 that was generated from our planning day last week is now available on the LIS website. Some objectives are carried forward from the current year, while the majority of them are new to the list (as they should be :)

Please review, and I’m interested in thoughts and comments.

Two building systems in Preus Library will be replaced by Facilities in the coming months:

1) The lighting control system that controls the main floor lighting will be replaced. The relays for the existing panels are really becoming hard to source. This work will also enable the control of the lights either on a time clock, or from the front desk.

2) The fire alarm system will also be replaced. Facilities will be installing a new addressable system with speaker strobes that will allow better communication for emergencies, and be up to date with current codes.

The Last Faculty member moved to their new office in the Sampson-Hoffland Science Labs. With the exception of an outdoor phone and a hallway phone the building is complete. The next adventure will be the Valders remodel which is underway.

Today the Alumni office is sending the following message to Alumni in Decorah that use Luther email forwarding. Next week the Alumni office will send it to all Alumni that currently use Luther email forwarding.

Greetings from Luther College!

Luther College has partnered with Google to create a new suite of services called Norse Apps. In addition to e-mail service, Norse Apps includes Norse Docs, Norse Chat, Norse Calendar, Norse Sites, and the Norse Start Page. The New Norse Mail service is based on Google’s Gmail service and is available to all alumni.

KATIE will be taken down for scheduled system maintenance from 12:01 – 8:00 AM Thursday, July 10, 2008

LIS and our vendor Innovative Interfaces have now made available Research Pro, a federated search tool allowing multiple source searching across nearly 30 different data sources. A portion of this product is now also available in our new discovery services platform Encore.

Our new discovery services platform Encore is now (mostly) fully functional and is now our preferred and primary tool for access to our library collections. Encore is the default search tool available on our new academic research portal http://lis.luther.edu/research. Our new federated search product Research Pro is also now partially integrated with Encore. Once fully deployed this will allow additional searching within a number of external databases include Google, Google Books, JSTOR, Project Muse, and Academic Search Complete.

This afternoon, we’ve completed cutting over the old library website to the new one that has been growing over the past several months. The new site is available at http://lis.luther.edu/research. Many of the old URLs on the site have been redirected to the new site, though not every single one. The old site has been moved to the following location: http://library.luther.edu/old/ where it will remain visible. There are now many broken links on that old site, but if you squeeze old into the URL at the appropriate place, you should still be able to locate any old content in its previous form.