The LIT Tech talk for March starts Wednesday from 3-4:15pm in Bass L01.
The agenda is a follows:
For those who cannot join us in person, the session will be streamed via Adobe Connect here:
http://greet.yale.edu/littechtalk/ [sign in as a guest]
Slides and recordings of the Tech Talk sessions will be archived here:
https://yale.box.com/LITTechTalkArchives
Questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics should be sent to Jenn Nolte (jennifer.nolte@yale.edu).
There will be a service outage this Saturday February 20th at 10am for approximately 2 hours. This outage is necessary to do perform routine maintenance on one of our servers. During the outage, the following services will be affected:
BorrowDirect (resources.library.yale.edu/cas/borrowdirect.aspx)
Ductus (resources.library.yale.edu/ductus/)
VRC Finding Aids (resources.library.yale.edu/VRCFindingAids/)
The World War I Experience (resources.library.yale.edu/WWI/)
YUL Staff Directory (resources.library.yale.edu/StaffDirectory/)
Library IT will send another reminder on Saturday morning at 9am. We will also send an “all clear” when the services have been restored successfully.
To report problems or ask a question about this or any of our other services, please fill out a problem report, or send email to libraryit@yale.edu.
Thanks as always, for your patience and cooperation!
Library IT is pleased to host two events for library staff on November 17th, 2015. Read on for more information!
November LIT Tech Talk:
The Tech Talk for November will be held at 11am on Tuesday November 17th in Bass L01.
Continuing to follow up on a request for more information on who does what in LIT, this month we will turn the spotlight on the Digital Library & Programming Group.
The tentative agenda is:
SearchFest:
The last SearchFest! session before Quicksearch’s public debut on the Library front door in January will be held on November 17th at 12:30pm in Bass L06.
The goals of SearchFest!:
As with the first SearchFest!, there will also be pizza served at the beginning of each session.
To register for the November 17th session, click here – 8 spots left!
There will be two more SearchFest! sessions scheduled for the fall semester.
The goals of SearchFest!:
As with the first SearchFest!, there will also be pizza served at the beginning of each session.
To register for the October 8th session, click here.
To register for the November 17th session, click here.
See you at SearchFest!
On Monday 9/21/2015, YUL’s digital collection discovery interface (findit.library.yale.edu) will go live with a new design modeled on the Quicksearch interface design. These coordinating designs let our users know that they are in the same Yale University Library web space and should expect similar functionality.
The new look and feel of digital collections search at YUL- main page (click the image to get a larger view):
Search results in the new design:
There will also be a few new features in the digital collections search added on Monday. These include:
Another feature coming soon (but not on Monday) is a date slider with a histogram visualization, which gives users the ability to limit by date range and see the frequency of hits in a given year. To see an example of a feature like this used elsewhere, click on this search of Articles+ and look to the lower left to see the date range and histogram.
As always, your feedback is welcomed and appreciated. Please use the feedback link on the bottom center of the digital collections search page (or just click here), and tell us your thoughts!
Last year, after the successful upgrade of our Articles+ e-resource discovery service and the beginning of the public beta phase of our Quicksearch unified discovery interface, library staff held an information session called Rediscovery Discovery, where we demonstrated features, functionality and sample search strategies in the Articles+ discovery interface and debuted the Quicksearch discovery interface.
This year, we will hold Rediscover Discovery again, covering Articles+ but with more focus Quicksearch. We will also introduce the digital collections search currently in development.
Rediscover Discovery is primarily aimed at instruction and public services staff, but is open to anyone who’d like to attend. Please register for each session as space is limited!
There will be two information sessions:
See you at Rediscover Discovery!
Based on the success of the first SearchFest! event held in Bass L06 on Thursday July 9th, there will be two more sessions scheduled for the fall semester.
The goals of SearchFest!:
As with the first SearchFest!, there will also be pizza served at the beginning of each session.
To register for the August 18th session, click here.
To register for the October 8th session, click here.
See you at SearchFest!
Library IT will be using an automated service to compile and send our newsletter. At the end of each month, news items from the Library IT News blog will be pulled into an email template and sent to Yulib. It will also be published to Twitter and visible on the web.
PDF copies of the newsletter will be archived in Eli Scholar with other LIT newsletter back issues.
Please email Jenn Nolte (jennifer.nolte@yale.edu) if you have any questions!
Yale Library IT invites you to our April Tech Talk Lightning Round. We will give a brief five-minute update on the topics below, followed by a ten-minute question and answer period. These talks are meant to be an informal way for IT staff to share information about initiatives and projects, while giving library staff the majority of the time for their questions and feedback. You are free to ask about any aspect of the initiative or project and not just what we elect to highlight.
The details:
Tech Talk Lightning Round
When: April 9, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Where: Bass L01
Agenda:
Request fulfillment with Aeon, Steelsen Smith
As part of the Aeon expansion we are revisiting the way that requests are made for special collections. After gathering requirements from public services and technical services staff, as well as the requirements of the Fortunoff and Kissinger projects, we will be readying to debut forms that are able to aggregate requests from multiple sources and route them to the appropriate fulfillment tool. New features will include single form multi-item requesting, enhanced restrictions, and an exciting new format.
Kissinger Discovery Project, Lakeisha Robinson and Tracy MacMath
We will discuss the efforts of Library IT to bring the Kissinger Collection into Findit via the Hydra stack. We will give a brief overview of current functionality and what is new for this implementation (the context tree, a new image viewer, authentication and access control, full-text search), and also discuss how our digital collections will be standardized in Findit.
Dashboard for LibGuides, Katie Bauer
The User Experience Group, working with Sarah Tudesco, has created a dashboard for all library subject guides. The dashboard, created using Tableau, presents a small set of key metrics from Google Analytics in a brief visual display designed to convey how people use individual subject guides. We will work with guide owners to help them take action based on the data. We have now joined the central ITS effort to use Tableau dashboards, and over the next year will create similar dashboards for all library digital interfaces. Katie Bauer will show the dashboard, briefly describe the metrics and actions that might affect use, and discuss next steps in the project to create other dashboards. Yale Libguides Usage Dashboard – http://j.mp/yale_libguides
Legacy Digital Collection Migration, George Ouellette
As a part of a library wide initiative, Library IT and Metadata Services and Catalog Management are collaborating to migrate digital content from a variety of legacy systems into our Hydra/Fedora/Backlight infrastructure. We will discuss the process and workflow, the current status of collection migration and our schedule for future migrations.
We look forward to seeing you next week!
The LIT Newsletter for Tuesday March 31st 2015 is up! The LIT Newsletter will be published every 2 weeks and emailed to Yulib. You can find this week’s newsletter here.
The next issue of the LIT Newsletter will be published Tuesday April 14th 2015.