TWILIS

Headline of the Week: Over ⅓ of Luther-owned Computers now have Windows 7

One of our LIS team members, Matt Hammen, logged onto the KBOX Administrative console recently and viewed a statistic that really stuck out—- over one third of all Luther owned computers are now running Windows 7 (see graph below). A month and a half ago, Windows 7 usage was limited to the select few users in our testing group.

Headline of the Week: Datatel and SunGard Higher Education sign agreement to combine businesses

Datatel and SunGard Higher Education have signed definitive agreements to combine businesses under a new holding company and operate as one company focused exclusively on serving global education. Together, with 3,000 employees collectively serving more than 2,300 colleges, universities, institutions and foundations in 40 countries around the world, the combined companies will be able to better serve customers.

Which administrative systems will the combined company continue to support?

Headline of the Week: First LIS Information Literacy & Technology Workshop A Success!

During the week of July 11, LIS hosted the faculty development workshop “Enhancing Student Learning Through Information Literacy and Technology”. Led by Andi Beckendorf and Diane Gossman, eleven participants from the Art, Economics, Education, Music, Nursing, Social Work and Theatre/Dance departments and eight members of LIS took part in three half-day sessions and additional team-based project time.

Headline of the Week: First Reason Conference was a Success!

Web designers and developers from Beloit College, Kalamazoo College, Carleton College and Luther College gathered at Loyalty Hall on July 7 and 8, 2011 sharing innovations and ideas on how they are using Reason on their campuses.

Headline of the Week: TWILIS in Transition

TWILIS began 198 iterations ago as a short email edition for LIS staff as a way to improve and enhance communication. It also was designed to help continue building a cross-disciplinary team and broaden awareness of the issues facing libraries and technology organizations. In many management and leadership structures, it is the leader who retains responsibility for thinking about the big picture. I tend to think that the big picture becomes clearer when more people have windows to see how their work integrates with a larger mission.

Headline of the Week: LIS 2011-12: A First Look at the Road Ahead

It is that time of year again as we look back at all we in LIS set out to accomplish for the 2010-11 academic year and also spend some time thinking about what the future holds for us in 2011-12. The answers to all these questions have been carefully gathered by LIS and published in our 2010-11 Annual Report, published today.

Headline of the Week: Looking for a Book? We Just Added 52,000 Of Them

The academic resources provided by a college library are without a doubt one of the most important strategic academic assets in which a college can invest. Here at Luther (and in most other places), the library collection has outlived nearly everything else around it including the library building and even some of our long-standing faculty :) Historically the collection has been painstakingly curated with additions of new titles one-by-one, and removal of obsolete or superseded titles in the same fashion.

Headline of the Week: Summer Planning 2011: Valuing Information Service

This week, LIS held our annual summer planning day to spend some time thinking about the bigger picture of where we are and where we are headed for next year.

Headline of the Week: Predictive and Guiding Vision, 2011 Edition

Last year, LIS introduced our Predictive and Guiding Vision for Library and Information Service that provides a visual overview of the forces we see as having the most impact on future development and delivery of our services.

Headline of the Week: How High Can They Fly?

Sometime in the next day or two (most likely), several Decorah area residents will accomplish something never done before – star in an live Internet broadcast with more than 100,000,000 viewers. The Decorah Eagles hosted by USTREAM have gone viral this year with widespread media coverage resulting in an unprecedented audience for an online Internet broadcast (the recent Royal wedding topped out around 72 million on YouTube).