Another week winding down, this time finishing the week in Portland in a meeting with ExLibris and the Alliance. I was invited to attend the meeting on the initiatives by Lori Hildebrandt in charge of Resource Sharing. I currently do not do a lot with Resource Sharing, but I have a lot of knowledge of our history with ExLibris in Resource Sharing. It also worked out very well with my football officiating, as I was assigned a game in Colton which is just south of Portland, so I can easily make it by game time. ExLibris was also willing to at least make a request by us, to look at removing one they had suggested for one we felt was more important.
The second item this week was finishing up installing the ILLiad Primo integration that Lewis & Clark developed. Since I was looking at our ILLiad API last week to try and track down other issues for Liz, I decided to grab the code from Jeremy and update it for our instance of Alma and Illiad. Now in place, it allows users to see their outstanding requests, and to directly see their articles.
Our campus is phasing out all of our Windows 7 machines, and we currently have about 10 still in use. For most of our machines, upgrading to Windows 10 is not going to be an issue, just an issue with reinstalling the software on the systems. So I have begun looking at all of our software on those specific machines, and unfortunately, we have two software packages that only will run on Windows 7. We currently have one machine which is non-networked which may have to be the landing zome for one of these programs which may not require network access to run, but one of the programs definitely is still going to be a hot topic issue come January.
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