LIS Websites

The upgrade to the III software on Magnus completed at about 8:45 am on Sunday, July 18. Users should now be able to search for library materials via the Magnus website.

LIS staff using the Millennium client – you should see no difference in operation; if you do please let me know ASAP.

This Sunday, July 18, Magnus will be unavailable for a period of time before noon to allow for an upgrade to the III system software. The downtime will begin at 8:00am and is expected to last for at least one hour.

Those hoping to search the library’s holdings during this time will still be able to do so using the “Encore” and “WorldCat” tabs found on the Library Research page.

This software update marks the second phase of the project started in late May to bring our III automated system up to date with current hardware and software.

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The LIS Ideas has been updated with a new layout/design (required by the vendor), and also has changed voting styles after feedback from users. Individuals may now vote up or vote down individual ideas. Each individual also now has one vote per idea (to be used positively or negatively).

This week’s TWILIS also introduces the addition of potential collaborative ventures now available on the site for voting and comment.

While the end of the school year may seem like a time to relax and unwind, as students trickle away during finals week, for many of us in LIS commencement literally marks the beginning of our busy time of year.

Magnus and Encore are now available following a successful server migration. Thanks to Adam Forsyth and Dave Huinker for all the help with server/networking setup!

Latest News

Over Spring Break I’ve been able to experiment with a handful of things that have been sitting on my to-do list for some time.

• Feedburner Integration – Google Feedburner allows us to gain some insight into how readers are using the LIS Blog, and which types of content are receiving the most attention.

There are a number of ways for the campus community and the general public to keep up-to-date on news and announcements from LIS. This post highlights our various publications, and how they can be accessed.

This Week in LIS (TWILIS) – A weekly digest of news, events, and updates sent by Christopher Barth, the Executive Director in LIS.

For campus community members who subscribe to the LIS Blog via an RSS reader (e.g. Google Reader or NetNewsWire), this is a reminder that you are eligible to receive “VIP access” to exclusive blog content intended only for the Luther community.

NOTE: Members receiving EMAIL blog updates already are receiving the exclusive content.

Latest News

This week a few modules were added to the LIS website to improve the “findability” of our content. Path_redirect will allow us to redirect 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.

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: