LIS Council

FREE Web Conferencing to take the place of Elluminate, Webex, GoToMeeting, etc. We've been looking at DimDim for a while since there's a loose integration with Moodle out there. Its a solid product, easy to use with lots of features: http://www.dimdim.com.

Report from the Datatel Users Group conference held March 8-12, 2008 in Washington, D.C.

I attended a number of sessions that provided valuable information that we can put to use in the next year.

* Performance tuning – I attended several tuning sessions covering Datatel Colleague Release 18 (R18), Web Advisor, DMI listeners (used in R18) and web load performance testing. I gathered lots of information that should help us understand more about the database administration functions that need to occur on the Datatel and Web Advisor servers to help improve performance.

This fall, the LIS Council has begun meeting regularly each week to
share information and discuss topics pertinant to LIS and the
individual parts thereof. Our meetings have mostly been sharing news
updates from around LIS with each other that can then be shared and
carried back to other parts of the organization. This will be an
important ongoing function of the Council, but is also a task that I
hope to accomplish more regularly via asynchronous communication tools
like the LIS Blog.