LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETINGSeptember 29, 2008, 9:15 a.m., HovdePresent: Chris, Andi, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca, Rachel.Librarians gave reports regardi

Last Friday I had the opportunity to participate in the G. Jon Hall Online Gift Forum, in Waterloo, IA. The Forum was part of the 44th Annual Conference of the Iowa Communication Association. The t

During this week’s maintenance window, routine OS patches will be applied to illiad.luther.edu. This will likely result in brief downtime of the server, which provides access to interlibrary

The library catalog server, books.luther.edu, will be rebooted on Thursday, Sept. 25 at 1:00 am, during the weekly maintenance window.

The Health Service has provided an AED (automated external defibrillator) for the library. It is located behind the circulation desk next to the pillar at the reserve desk. A placard on the pillar

Monday, September 22, 2008 – Hovde Present: Germano, Rebecca, Jane, Ryan, Andi, Rachel, Lindy, Chris, JohnLibrarians reported on their contacts with their liaison departments regard

Three members of LIS will be part of the panel presentation “Rising Tide of Opportunity: Designing Effective Communication Strategies for Information Organizations” at the 14th Annual A

Naxos Music Library has released version 2.0 of their web interface. Users will notice that the main page layout has changed slightly.The most noticeable difference in the new version is th

LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL STAFF MEETINGSeptember 15, 2008, 9:15 a.m., HovdePresent: Andi, Ryan, John, Jane, Lindy, Germano, Rebecca.Jane reported on the Department Heads Meeting.

As part of his new Digital Initiatives Librarian role, Ryan Gjerde is now the primary contact for questions and problems relating to the operation of the books.luther.edu server, the Encore server

Our friends at JSTOR have the following announcement regarding recent problems with Mac Preview:We are glad to report that we have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility

Direct on-campus access to licensed databases has been restored.Off-campus access remains available through the LIS website, and r