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

Andi led our ongoing discussion of Information Literacy planning and we talked about developing a possible in-house summer workshop. We also discussed the idea of offering faculty course planning grants.

Jane reported on her trip to Norway (arranged by the Art in Embassies division of the U.S. State Department) to attend the reception at the U.S.

Did you know that a graduate of Luther College helped to create the Library of Congress Classification system? Otherwise fondly known as “call numbers”, a classification system consists of the numbers and letters that organize materials by topic area. The Dewey Decimal system is used primarily in school and public libraries, while the LC system is typically used in college and university libraries. Our connection is J.C.M. Hanson, an 1882 graduate of Luther, who was invited to become head of the Catalog Division of the Library of Congress in 1897.

For Twitter aficionados, LIS has activated an organizational account at @lutherlis that will post short, timely notices on news and events from LIS. As this account is new, it will likely take us some time to settle in to how to use it, and we’ll consider it experimental for the time being. We’ll run a block containing the Twitter feed on our blog page, so content appearing in both streams will be centrally located.

The LIS Blog will remain the primary announcement tool, and there are no changes in what content is appropriate for publishing there.

Headline of the Week: The Unquenchable Thirst: Bandwidth

It is a story of two curves: one rapidly climbing and a second shallowing out, but both showing remarkable change over the last several years and the ride has only begun. Much of the fabric of our now commonplace digital lives is younger than my second-grade daughter.

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This week a few modules were added to the LIS website to improve the “findability” of our content. Path_redirect will allow us to orphaned links, and Global_redirect will help to reduce the occurrence of duplicate results in web searches.

LIS has recently created a department-wide Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/lutherlis) which will also soon be visible from the LIS Blog page.

LIS staff and Librarians have been meeting to discuss Digital Signage within the Library Building. A flat panel will be wall mounted near the front main entrance sometime soon. The project will display the Luther community channel #17 in the beginning, with a move towards a more LIS and Library focused channel as time goes on. This is for information distribution and marketing of services to our patrons and campus visitors. The next Blog will be when the Flat panel has been installed.

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Our Cable TV headend equipment has moved recently to it’s new location. The electronic equipment and racking was in the old Help Desk location until this past J-Term, but is now in the 1st floor wiring closet.

A sampling of diverse IP address subnets from which viewers originate is plotted out on the attached map. The sample shows 99 spots out of the over 6,000 different IP addresses that have successfully viewed the Eaglecam from Luther College’s website over the last six days:

Administrative Interface changes

This morning I’ve put in place some administrative interface changes in Reason. You will notice icons and, more significantly, a change in the layout for Add/Editing and Borrowing of content types. The change results on saved screen real estate. Instead of vertically listing the content types twice — once for Add/Edit, once for Borrow. The list of content types is listed once and the Add/Edit and Borrow functions are split into tabs.

Credit goes to Matt Ryan at Carleton College for the changes.