Here’s a shout out to Jaons for doing such a great job as Interim Chair of the department. We all appreciate his efforts and willingness to fill in over the summer. Unfortunately for A & L, Jason is now officially a member of the IT (effective 8/24). What is our loss obviously is the IT Department’s gain, but Jason will still be working at the same workstations (at least for now) and will be working with many of us routinely on projects and initiatives that involve his IT skills. Besides, he promises to still come to A & L parties..

Travel Requests are due - remember to submit requests even if you are not asking for funding; if authorized by the Travel Committee, staff can still attend library and other related conferences with paid leave. 

Here’s my chance to give my Blog welcome to Chris Poehlmann. We’re happy to have you part of the dept.!

We’ve set-up a test of 360 Link from Serials Solutions through Metalib at this URL - http://metalib-test.fcla.edu/V and encourage everyone to experiment with it and let us know what problems you encounter and what suggestions you have.  There are some known issues.  Some resources searched by Metalib require the database vendor to enable 360 Link for it to work properly.  Since we don’t want to disable SFX until we migrate to 360 Link we’ve not asked these databases to be enabled.  Some of the popular databases that fall into this catagory are:  JSTOR, OVID, & Wiley.

One of the biggest changes to note is that when 360 finds a full text source, clicking on the Find it@UF button will take users directly to the article.  We’re also in the process of customizing and branding the results and helper pages, so those may look slightly different over the next few days.

A few excellent questions were raised by Jay Wiese who is an early tester of the application.   Below are his questions and my answers:

Q.  What determines which vendor’s fulltext content appears in the pop-up if there are multiple vendors that carry the content?

A.  Currently, the default priority is alphabetical.  However, we have the ability to change the priority to whatever order is desired.  We’ll be working with selectors over the next few weeks to set a custom display order.

Q.  The pop-up is a bit cramped since it displays in a small window (about 640×480). Is there any way to make the pop-up default to full-screen?

A.  Possibly.  It’s not a setting we can control on the 360 Link set-up, but the database vendor may be able to change the default screen size.  We may be able to do it in house as well.  I’ll find out and post the answer here.

Q.  If I click on ‘Get additional resources related to this’, there’s no ‘back’ button; How can I get back to the original screen?

A.  Currently the only way to get back is to right-click and select “Back” from the menu.  We’ll explore adding something like a “Previous Screen” button.

*windows updates: should happen at night

*access support reports that notices haven’t been going out to patrons and no one was notified. Will reports that Matthew is still involved in the process and that Circ should create a ticket in Grover for response.

*360link update give: EResources is testing it in metalib right now. Public Services indicated that they would need the new icon soon to embed it in handouts.

*ignore phishing schemes: 1. emails asking for passwords 2. emails with attachments you weren’t expecting

*workstation support unit getting up to speed they are looking for feedback

*grover has some changes- now the link in an email sent from Grover will take you directly to the corresponding ticket, let them know about enhancement requests.

*to notify someone in systems about an issue put their name in initial Note

*campus AD (Active Directory) starts tomorrow for public machines. They will be presented with a different logon screen, otherwise it will be the same. This process will be completed by Aug. 15th.

*Temp ids for visiting patrons will expire after 2 weeks they are trying to
extend this

*After Public AD is complete systems will begin migrating staff. They anticipate the process will actually start in early October.
-changes
1. No email storage limits
2. Your Gatorlink account will be merged with your work account and your new email address be be your gatorlink ID. For example mine will change to peabody@ufl.edu. If you want to change your current ID you will need to have this done at the HUB.

3. Any listservs staff subscribe to will have to be modified to enable replying to the list , because anything you send will be coming from your gatorlink address
4. The new email system will support mobile devices but requires a Pin to be setup
5. A different kind of spam blocker is used.
6. Email will be very safe , but deleted email will be gone forever
7. PST files may me tricky, should be able to get to or from desktop but nor from webmail. Attachments will be links in emails

+Will is going to find out about email accounts associated with shared mailboxes.

for more information see UF’s webpage: http://www.mail.ufl.edu/questionsandanswers.html

New training HR Position will oversee outlook 2007 training.
Office 2007 will be available to be pushed to the Desktop by mid-september.