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VCU Libraries IT Snapshot. ASERL Information Technology / Digital Initiatives Interest Group Lunch-n-Learn Sept 22, 2010 Jimmy Ghaphery Head, Library Information Systems VCU Libraries. VCU Libraries Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu PS Magazine, issue 165, 1966. About VCU. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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VCU Libraries IT Snapshot
ASERL Information Technology / Digital Initiatives Interest Group
Lunch-n-Learn Sept 22, 2010Jimmy Ghaphery
Head, Library Information SystemsVCU Libraries
VCU Libraries Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu PS Magazine, issue 165, 1966
About VCU
32,436 Students 18,218 Employees (with VCU Health System) $225 million sponsored research awards Young and ambitious http://www.vcu.edu
About VCU Libraries
Two million volumes 50,000 serial titles Aspirations for ARL status http://library.vcu.edu
Library Information Systems
200 staff and 350 public machines Aleph ILS CONTENTdm and scanning operations DSpace for mandatory ETD’s ILLiad/SFX/Metalib/EzProxy Website/Applications/Mobile 9 FT (4 faculty) and 3 PT (1 faculty)
VCU Libraries Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu PS Magazine, issue 105, 1961
Library IT Governance
Standing library tech groups disbanded in 2006
Vision, Agile, Transparent, Responsive Major decisions Management Council Web reaction panel - NOT redesign group Task Forces as needed – LibGuides As the pendulum swings…..
VCU IT Governance University Librarian reports to Provost; CIO dual reports to
Provost and Senior Vice President VCU Technology Advisory Committee—2007
“advisory and communications channels among Technology Services, the schools and College, and major administrative units. The Committee will provide advice to the Chief Information Officer on school/departmental needs as well as central technology services and directions.”
Library contributions one foot in both administration and academic
Recent task force on Disaster Recovery
VCU IT Consultancy
• Ongoing, Initiated Fall 2009• Central & Departmental IT
Central IT ServicesFree Fee Partner
Enterprise systems: email, ERP (Banner), ecommerce, listservs etc.
Identity Management (ldap, edirectory, CAS)
Shibboleth/InCommon
Network maintenance and upgrades
New network installs Wireless
Physical server hosting, Hobbit/NOC
Sysadmin, DBA, Extended server warranty
Virtual Servers
Backup infrastructure TSM/TDP
Initial licensesTape charge per 500GB
Labstats, AV, DeepFreeze LanDesk licenses Laptop loan, Learning Commons
Active Directory infrastructure
Initial CIFS setup SAN contributions
Library Central IT
Management of 200 staff and 350 public pc's and peripherals across five locations.
LabStats; LanDesk; Sophos; Hardware responsibility for Cabell Library; Student Laptop checkout; Public authentication; Ghost licensing; Wireless; Pay4Print
Staff user support1500 tickets closed per year
As needed
Local Area Filesharing, permissions, account maintenance
Active directory; CIFS Server; backups; SAN
Desktop Snapshot Active Directory/CIFS migration from library
managed servers Roughly 4TB in storage, 3TB of digital masters Projects: permissions on staff pc’s and public apple
management
Cabell 2nd Floor Learning Commons
Library Central IT
Aleph Integrated Library System for VCU Richmond and Qatar.
Single Oracle DB, two application instances.
Sysadmin and Oracle DB across 4 servers (prod, dev, standby, test); backups (TSM TDP); SAN; Hobbit/NOC
ILS Snapshot Summer 2010 migration to version 20/Oracle 11. Working on standby posture. Fall 2010 projects VERDE, VuFind
VCU Libraries Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu PS Magazine, issue 53, 1957
Library Central IT/VCCS
SFX URL Resolver
Metalib Federated Searching
Server hosted and administered by Virginia Community Colleges in exchange for SFX application maintenance on a shared instance since 2004.
Virginia Commnity Colleges (VCCS) Collaboration Snapshot
Anxiously awaiting PrimoCentral Not sure how Metalib relates to LibGuides Threw in towel on Metalib federated searching
from homepage SFX ver4
Library Central IT
Library Web Server Design, application programming, server admin,database admin, mobile website, LibGuides, Movable Type, Contribute, backup and test servers
Server hosting computer center; TSM backups; Hobbit/NOC; CAS; investigating central RedHat updates.
Web Server Snapshot New design Jan 2010, mobile site spring 2010,
LibGuides summer 2010. App migration ColdFusion to PHP (codeignitor) New room reservation system, customized Ball State
OpenRoom.
Library Central IT
Web ApplicationsEzProxyILLiadCONTENTdmDSpace
Server hosting computer center; backups; Hobbit/NOC; CAS (proxy only); investigating central RedHat updates.
Web Apps Snapshot EzProxy standby virtual server at VCU DR site. ILLiad 8; exploring central database hosting. CONTENTdm upgrading to version 5.3. DSpace 1.42 with ETD embargo customizations
o Looking at upgrade optionso IR Elephant
Social media deployment (centralization questions)
Library Central IT
Scanning; CONTENTdm server
Digitization Snapshot Recently outsourced yearbooks and alumni magazine
(LYRASIS/Internet Archive). Relationship to CDM/digital masters?
Digital preservation planning to encompass digitized collections, born digital material and web content
Pending: 8,000 slides, student newspapers
VCU Libraries Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu PS Magazine, issue 97, 1961
Central Standards & Requirements
Project management requirements Security standards Laptop and desktop encryption Registries for servers, sensitive data
