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Over the past weekend (Nov 14-15) the LIS website was upgraded, and now uses Drupal 6 to serve content. As was noted last week, most of the site’s appearance and functionality remain the same, however a few changes should be highlighted:

• Blog notifications – the system used to send out email updates from the LIS Blog has been modestly changed. Existing subscriptions have been migrated to the new system with the most comparable settings applied for each user.

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been laying the groundwork for an upgrade to our website’s content management system. Now – with most of the issues ironed out, I will be upgrading the LIS site to Drupal 6 this weekend, Nov. 14-15. The LIS site will remain available for normal use throughout the weekend, however a brief downtime will occur on Sunday afternoon when I “throw the switch” from the old version to the new.

On Saturday, Oct. 24, Serials Solutions will be performing routine maintenance on their servers from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This may result in some downtime for the Full Text E-Journals link on the Library Research page. During this time, an alternative will be to search Encore for the title you seek, looking for results with “[Electronic Resource]” in their titles.

The Encore library resource discovery tool will be upgraded Tuesday, Oct. 20. The upgrade procedure will require about 30 minutes of downtime at some point of the day. If you need to search the library collection while Encore is unavailable, please try the “Magnus” tab on the Library Research page, or visit Magnus directly at http://books.luther.edu.

Updates to the LIS website this week included:

• Update to III Millennium 2007 1.3
• Standardization of CSS themes across browsers on LIS development site.

A concern highlighted in our most recent round of usability testing was the disruption of having to search for the LIS site’s login option when trying to access protected content from a link elsewhere on the site or in an email.

Now, when users attempt to access protected content without already being logged in, they will be directly prompted for their Norse Key login. New visitors to the site who have a valid Norse Key will also be able to login at this point.

Thanks again to all of our usability testing participants for their insightful observations!

The following updates were made to the LIS website over the past week:

• Patches applied to Illiad server OS.
• Upgrades to core and supplementary Drupal modules.
• Added ability to stream local audio (see 40 years ago for an example)

The follow system updates occurred over the past week:

• Patches applied to Illiad OS.
• Created an instance of Omeka for testing by LIS staff.

The following updates occurred during this week’s maintenance window:

• Upgrade of Archon to version 2.23
• Upgrade of LIS Auction site’s core and supplementary modules.
• Patches to Illiad server OS.

AdAstra stopped working around 2pm on Saturday afternoon due to a hardware failure. AdAstra’s support provided instruction on restoring service. The AdAstra service has now been restored. We are sorry for any inconveniences this outage has caused.