Overview of the ITS department's projects, services, and staff. A look at our areas, including IT infrastructure, eresources management, digital library services, and admin & communication.
1. What the &*%$ are they
up to in ITS?
June 6, 2013 | Blackburn Room | Robarts Library
2. IT Infrastructure & Network Services
Servers
Storage
Networks
Graham Stewart
Steve Baroti
Tarrah Gledhill
Raymond Tsang
System
applications
System
monitoring
Staff
workstations
Alex Cheng
Stephen Hong
Reg Matson
Backup &
recovery
3. E-resources, Sirsi & Metadata Mgmt
Sirsi and
Workflows
Wenran Zhang
Raymond Tsang
Yvonne Ramcharan
Library catalogue
Endeca,
Summon
Metadata
management
and integration
Marlene van
Ballegooie
Bilal Khalid
Marc Lalonde
Richard Hydal
4. Digital and Library Web Services
Library web sites
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Discovery layer
design
Marc Lalonde
Gordon Belray
Richard Hydal
Andrew McAlorum
Web design and
content
repositories
Digital project
development
Ken Yang
Bilal Khalid
Paul Armstrong
Rare and special
collection
digitization
25. Sirsi Catalogue
● Maintenance
○ RDA, Serials concatenation, cleanup...
● Custom requests
● Data export for other services
○ Endeca, Browse Search, Request Item...
● Numbers
○ 7.3 million bib records, 11.2 million item records, 1.5
million e-resources
26. Serials Solutions
● Activating incoming titles
● Loading Serials Solutions MARC into Sirsi
● Daily catalogue updates to Summon
● Troubleshooting access issues
● Managing digital rights information
● Other services
● Numbers
(soon)
29. Digital Projects Development
We collaborate with faculty to publish their research
and data online, and build custom applications to
support their research.
31. Digital Humanities
Using computational tools to do the work
of the humanities. - John Unsworth
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Open standards, open source,
open access
Custom applications for the
study of traditional humanities
objects
Digital publishing
Visualization
Community
32. Digital Humanities
2011/2012
2012/2013
Soviet Samizdat Periodicals
http://samizdat.library.utoronto.ca
DEEDS
Documents of Early England
Data Set
British Armorial Bindings
http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca
Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca
Jackman Humanities Institute
http://humanities.utoronto.ca
REED
Records of Early English
Drama
63. ITS Help Desk
What we do:
● Provide a consistent Windows desktop experience from
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Keep your data secure
Backup your data centrally for you
Provide shared storage for Departments and Projects
Provide you with the IT tools to get your job done
64. ITS Help Desk
● When you call, we will answer!
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Supported business hours:
Mon – Fri: 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sat: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sun: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Holidays: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
● New email address and issue tracking
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email: ITShelp@library.utoronto.ca
software: Jira
● Frequently asked questions
65. ITS Help Desk
What we can do for you ...
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Assist you with any help you need with your ITS supported library staff
computer (laptop or other mobile device).
Regularly apply software and security updates to library staff computers.
Install / uninstall / troubleshoot software on your staff computer or laptop.
Provide Remote Desktop access to your computer.
Create and unlock Library Domain user accounts and reset passwords.
Setup self install permissions on your Library staff computer.
Equipment bookings, laptop and projector setup for meetings.
Computer moves; to a new location, repositioned on your desk, cable
detangling.
If you are not sure who to contact, contact us, we are here to help.
73. Design and Online Repositories
Photography
heritage.utoronto.ca
Large internal collection of UTL/UofT
photographs
Creative Commons license
Also available on network map by request
74. Design and Online Repositories
Digital Humanities
Representative Poetry Online
rpo.library.utoronto.ca
Styles based on printed
anthologies
75. Design and Online Repositories
Digital
Humanities
Soviet Samizdat Periodicals
samizdat.library.utoronto.ca
British Armorial Bindings
armorial.library.utoronto.ca
DEEDS
deedsdev.library.utoronto.ca
76. Design and Online Repositories
Digital Signage
Floor Directories
Fisher
Media Commons
- more to come!
77. Design and Online Repositories
FADIS
Federated Academic
Digital Imaging
System
14 partner institutions
Fine Art content
management system
and teaching tool
83. Graphic Design
Support for Faculty / Departments
● web graphics & css
● print publication support (book cover
design, image prep for print)
84. Coming next...
● Communication
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ITS website
Help desk software
Metrics and analysis
Advisory committee
● Scaling up
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Responsive accessible web design
New digital projects: DEEDS, RPO anthology
New looks: T-Space, OCS, JPS
Digital preservation, data curation and cloud storage