LIS Websites

At approximately 2:00pm Saturday afternoon adastra.luther.edu stopped functioning. LIS is working to restore service as soon as possible.

The LIS website will be undergoing routine maintenance this Thursday morning. Access should be restored by 7:30 am.

Today, Google gave a preview of it’s “next big thing” for internet communication, named “Wave,” at the Google I/O Developers Conference.

Wave was conceived as “how email would look if it was invented today.” Very simply put, it converges functionality of email, instant messaging, document sharing, blogging (and just about any other communication functionality a creative developer could dream up).

Wave is still in development, planned for release later this fall.

Updates for the week included:

• Updates to core web modules
• Additional control of publication status for content creators
• Relocation of Campus Network Speed Test from Help Desk server
• Relocation of Thunderbird to Norse Mail Address Book converter from old webmail server.

Updates were made to the core system modules, as well as the following modules:

• Date
• Calendar
• Views Alpha Pager

Available now in Magnus are links to content provided by Google Books.

When matching content is found, a “Google Books Preview” button will appear in the right-hand column of an item record. The button will link to one of three types of content, depending on what is provided:

1. Full text – A scanned edition of the text. ex. The History of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties
2. Partial preview – A preview of the text, often about 10-30 pages are available. ex.

• Proxy server moved to new hardware
• Auto-linking to Google Books content in Magnus
• Norlie database access provided via LIS site

Our vendor has announced that Research Pro will be unavailable starting at 7:00 PM for about one hour, as they perform routine maintenance.

Today we are introducing a new interface for the LIS staff directory. Still located at http://lis.luther.edu/about/staff, the new directory allows you to filter the LIS staff according to service team, and also links to individual profile pages for each LIS staff member.

With the recent upgrade to Encore 2.0, new features are available in the LIS’s resource discovery tool.

• Individual logon – Available from the top right corner of any Encore page, this will give you access to your library account information, and will display a notification messages, such as when an item is coming due.
• Community tagging – Sometimes subject headings just aren’t enough! Now, logged-in users can create searchable tags from the bottom of each item record. Community-contributed tags will appear in the tag cloud on the search results page.
• *Yahoo!