More new changes

Recent changes...

• Hours updated to say we'll be opening at 7am on July 2nd.
• New ILLIAD page look-- it has a banner simialr to what we have now, and I changed the font to match the new site
• -- through LOUIS I've found out how to edit the ILLIAD page's appearance. If we need to change it again, it can be done.
• Note: According to the computing center, even though the captial letter ULM logo is on the website, the ULM circle logo like we had before is the offical ULM logo. So that's what I plan to put on most of the databases that allow graphic customizations. Although some of them already have the capital ULM logo for consistency
• Blog  and Facebook banners updated with capital ULM logo
• Off campus access page updated to match new site
• Will the other deference librarians get website access? That is still unknown  but the outlook is not good.

Coming soon:

More work on Google Scholar. It doesn't work properly off-campus yet, but on campus it does work... but only if you tell Google to do that. It doesn't recognize ULM's IP address automatically, and I'm pretty sure it's supposed to. I've asked EBSCO support about this (EBSCO LinkSource is what makes GS work and we had to ask EBSCO to set it up for us), but I haven't heard back yet. If there's no good news by next week, I may reveal GA to the public anyway, since patrons have been asking for it for a long time.

NEW SITE DOOONNNEEEE

The new website is up!
http://www.ulm.edu/library/

Many adjustments and compromises were made over its development. Let me know if you have any concerns or questions.

The old  library site is here if you need it, but it won't be there forever:
http://www.ulm.edu/library_TEMP

KN also has a backup of the old one on her computer.


Also:
CH and KN are looking to make more adjustments to the EZproxy to allow access to more journals off-campus

New website update

New website

This past month the new website has been built,with many new pages and changes. The developing site is here:

http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/

The home page is of course the most important page, and currently is pending approval. There have been many versions.

The latest is:
 http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/hometest-3c.html

Some previous versions include:
http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/hometest-3a.html
http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/hometest-3c-2.html
http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/home-bgtest-2d.html
http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/home-bgtest-2.html

Library Reference Materials

The new site's Guides and Tutorials page is using the old ulm.edu/~person pages since we don't know yet how we're going to get user privileges on the site for the other librarians. Most of the old tutorials from the current page have been removed for evaluation and may of them will need to be updated before they return to the new site.

Other current web site changes:

• hours
• new HTML hours page (like on new site)
• news post about upcoming new site

New website coming & more

1)
Meeting on April 29th, 2013, 10am
In attendance: KN, CH, ML, LJ, CR

Due to lateness of KN, a fire alarm evacuation, and computer equipment failure, the meeting was loose and relatively brief.

• KN explained what working with OU is like and showed some page examples
• The amount of access ref. librarians will get on the new site is still unknown, KN says
• The future use of EDS and the catalog was discussed
• ML said she would start a ref. dept. meeting to discuss the ref. dept. pages and content (she did)
• Other ideas for re-doing content on the new site were discussed
• Deadline set as June 1  [not true anymore-- it will be much sooner after the semester ends --KN]

2)
KN has been working on various pages for the new site. Here is the developing site (only works on campus):

http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/

And some extra home pages:
http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/home-bgtest-2c.html
http://www.ulm.edu/library_dev/home-bgtest-2.html

3)
the ACM Digital Library has been tested and it works off-campus. It's status and name (formerly just "ACM") has been changed on the site. News of this has been placed on the blog.
Now all of the DBs we have which are supposed to work off campus do work off campus!

4)
The new site will probably go live after the end of the semester. The plan is for KN to set up the main pages to work, and the ref. dept. can prepare its instructional content next.
Still no certain word from the CC on how/if ref. librarians will be allowed access to the new site. KN plans to no longer use ulm.edu/~name directories or the ulm.edu/~govdoc directory

Changes for new EZproxy, hours, etc

Since the last update...

• Made changes to the hours for the spring holiday, then changed them back after
• Removed all the "special" links for EBSCOhost from the site, since they are no longer necessary. MEDLINE w/ Full Text and CMMC are working great now.
• Made instructions for recovering lost LOUIS EBSCO folder accounts, with anchor link, : http://www.ulm.edu/library/offcampus.html#folder
• Posted news about the off campus access changes to the blog and home page news box
• Now preparing EDS for expanded use. FYI, here is its link again:  http://atoz.ebsco.com/link.asp?id=1412&rid=2794470
• There are some new menu options on the EDS home page linking to our own pages. I don't know how those got there, but it does show it's possible to customize that part.

EZproxy + the catalog + newsletter

1)
At 11am today KN was in a conference call about EZproxy with an OCLC rep., JG and LS from LOUIS, and CE. It was almost 40 min. long.

OCLC and LOUIS talked for a long time about getting the files that make LOUIS and ULM's proxy work together. We will be able to start testing the server this week, and KN has been given a test server to look at. KN will need to get in contact with JG  and do the testing with him because he has to change something on the LOUIS server to test the new OCLC one.

Once all the testing is done and we're ready to move everything over to the new server, KN will need to change the URL prefix on the library web pages, and CH will need to change those in EBSCO AtoZ as well.

All vendors must be informed of the new external IP Address for the new OCLC EZproxy server.  LS from LOUIS says she will inform the vendors LOUIS deals with. KN has informed the non-LOUIS vendors which use EZproxy (there are a few that use other authentication) about the changes, including EBSCO.

2)
KN was at the 2013 COSUGI conference, thanks to LOUIS. Some LOUIS personnel and other LA librarians were also there (including KC, who used to be in the ULMLWPC).

The big news about SirsiDynix is that they have come out with a new "BlueCloud" catalog, to be available this summer, they say. There was very little talk about e-Library at the conference, because it is no longer SirsiDynix's true focus, even though they continue to support it.  This explains why e-Library has been so clunky over the recent years.

This means that along with the new website we're making, we and other LA libraries need to accept that it's the end of the road for e-Library, and a new catalog solution must be chosen, whether that's EDS, BlueCloud, Enterprise, or whatever. SirsiDynix says BlueCloud is "free" with "your maintenance," but it's unclear even to LOUIS what "free" really means.
Part of this decision will be made by LALINC and LOUIS. But a decision must be made. We cannot use e-Library forever.

3)
Added CR's New Special Collections newsletter, Fall '12 & Spring '13, to the archives page, and announced it on our news blog and home page.

4)
Thanks to MW and CH, some old names and URLs to EBSCO component databases were updated last week. Most of those are the HW Wilson titles that got bought and absorbed by EBSCO. They now have their own direct links and have been added to the DB lists, ART subject page, and HISTORY page.

New links:
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
World History Collection
Same DBs, new names:
French Business Source® Vente et Gestion is now just Vente et Gestion
Environmental Issues & Policy Index™ is now just Environmental Issues

Updates

• Since the last post, Naxos Music Library was added to the site, and announced on our website, blog, and Facebook. It will be available off campus as soon as our EZproxy is set up
• CH found a some EBSCO databases missing from the DB lists. 
•  Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
  Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
  World History Collection
• 2 more DBs remain the same but have been re-named by EBSCO:
  French Business Source® Vente et Gestion is now just Vente et Gestion
  Environmental Issues & Policy Index™ is now just Environmental Issues 
• The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals doesn't exist anymore, and I've removed it.  
• EZproxy update, I talked with KS from LOUIS at LLA, and she feels that we've been waiting too long for OCLC to finish. I got an update email from OCLC asking to talk today-- I don't know if that has anything to do with LOUIS or not-- but alas, I and CE from the CC don't have time to meet today. We'll have to wait until next week.