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LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

December 1, 2008, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

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

Rebecca announced the dates for the workshops for Paideia faculty during J-term. They are January 13th, 15th, and 20th from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Round Table Room. Discussed what would be covered at these workshops.

Jane reviewed and led the discussion on the “Template for Department Self-study”.

Matthew Hammen has accepted the position of User Services Workstation Support Specialist. He comes to us from Grinnell, Iowa and was a Computer Technician at the University of Iowa Hospitals. A member of the User Systems and User Services teams, Matthew will work directly with Larry and Todd to provide workstation support for faculty, staff, labs and classrooms on campus. His start date is tentatively set for December 8th. We look forward to welcoming Matthew to LIS.

The new course evaluation surveys are now available to students. Students in the pilot group of courses will receive an email message with a link to their course evaluation and reminders to complete the evaluations by December 12th. Faculty no longer have access to the faculty information or additional question information for their courses. If students have questions about the survey process they should contact Janine in the Dean’s office at ext. 1005 or email IDEA@luther.edu

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETING

November 24, 2008, 9:15 a.m., Hovde

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

Jane led discussion of draft #8 for the wording for the new mission statement. All agreed to the wording of this draft.

Germano presented reference titles for evaluation. Decisions were made as to whether to purchase or not.

Andi had a handout listing the spring 2009 Paideia sections.

This week the LIS website was transferred to a new server. Users will still access the site at http://lis.luther.edu.

The new server should provide us with increased flexibility as we continue to develop and improve the LIS website.

Tomorrow morning (11-26-08) at 7AM I am planning to work with technicians from Bradford Software to upgrade Campus Manager to the newest version. The actual amount of downtime should be minimal, but users may notice periodic trouble when making a new connection to the wireless network, or when trying to register a previously unregistered computer. I expect this work will be done before noon.

Update The upgrade is complete.

Starting at 10:00 am, Wednesday November 26, 2009, a brief downtime will be scheduled for http://lis.luther.edu (the LIS homepage) while the site is transferred to a new server. Service is expected to be interrupted for 30-60 minutes.

An announcement from EBSCO, provider of America: History & Life, and Historical Abstracts:

CLIO Notes for America: History & Life, and Historical Abstracts will guide you through subjects in United States and world history, by allowing you to browse through chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in modern history. On the main screen, you will find a list of major time periods and events. Each of these is further divided into subtopics that display informative essays and suggestions for further research.

At about 9:30PM tonight (11-24-08) our Internet connection through Mediacom went down. I’ve talked to Mediacom and they confirm that the problem is on their end. They are having some problems with one of their routers. Until our connection to Mediacom comes back up, we will have half of our usual internet bandwidth so users may notice some slowness when using the internet. I will update this blog post as I have more information.

Update As of approximately 1AM 11-25-08 the connection is back up and we again have full internet capacity.

We’re experiencing trouble with the DSL network servicing College Apartments and Prarie Houses. I am working with tech support trying to resolve the problem. I will update this blog post when I have more information.

Update As of 5:30PM 11-24-08 I believe this problem is now resolved.