Service & Technology Update

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The Role of libraries

“The object of the library is to bring together human beings and recorded knowledge in as fruitful a relationship as humanly possible.”

- Jesse Shera-

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Physical Changes - Workspaces Computer workstations and support

Support both sign-on and quick access machines Computing Commons - 1st main, 1st west 2 multimedia classrooms (56 pc), 1 teaching area (40 pc) 18 distributed quick access stations

Total: 250+ public machines

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Peripherals and Support:

Printing: Leddy printer queue 4 high-volume printers 1 colour printer

5 printers (3 locations) ~100,000 pages/month Scanners:

3 standard flatbed 1 oversized flatbed 3 microform scanner/printers

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Flexible access & transfer support

Laptop drops 22 on six floors

Wireless 3 access points on 3 floors Expanding now – 12 areas on 9 floors

Lending pool 14 wireless network cards 9 Laptops 5 USB memory keys 2 e-book readers

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Are they using it?

WIBS – Leddy login & reservation system ~1200 bookings per day

Network traffic increasing significantly Doubled from March 2004 to 2005

Printing ~100,000 pages/month

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Proxied web servicesAccess through Leddy’s EZProxy & remote login system

July 2002 - June 2003: 137,000 July 2003 - June 2004: 423,000 July 2004 - March 2005: 451,000

On campus use is ~53% total

Student network in library ~26%

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EJOSE-Journals

RefWorksCitation Manager

O-SpaceCollaborative

Repsitory

O-ZoneGovernment Documentw

RACERInterlibrary Loans

IlluminaArticle & Citation

Search

Get It!OpenURL resolver

Key FactorsOCUL – Scholars’ Portal Project

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Scholars’ Portal – highlights Locally loaded journals & backfiles ~5000 journals / 7 million full text articles Abstract & index databases

Interoperability of systems Search results will

Link to full text Load citation into RefWorks Link to catalogue record for local materials Create ILLoan request in RACER

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Some Additional Resources

Journals & Publications ~22,000 Journal titles ~ 6,000 E-book and reference titles Additional abstract & index databases

Statistics & Data Statistics Canada Federal & Provincial Depository Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange (OGDE) LEO – cooperative data initiative

Services ERes – electronic course reserves Course integration - participant in ViCKi

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Underpinnings

Servers 9 Leddy 5 ITS(shared)

Staff equipment (85 FTE, 110+ staff) 112 Workstations 12 network, 30 stand-alone printers 6 Flatbed, 28 Barcode Scanners

Systems / Production Applications Voyager ILS & Catalogue EZProxy – remote access LogIn – remote authentication WIBS - booking ERes – course reserves InMagic / DBTextworks WILD - tutorial Local Scholars Portal administration

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Technical Support & Development

3 techs, 2 Systems librarians, 1 clerical staff Desktop installations, configuration and support Local development and support

Local, provincial, national & international projects Development/Programming Project support and planning

Partnerships ITS - local support and infrastructure CFL – courseware integration, Interlend partnering Teaching and research colleagues

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Upcoming Projects

Equipment & Facilites Mac workstations Expanded wireless (ITS) Server additions & upgrades

Collections & Services Information Literacy Tutorial project Courseware integration Institutional Repositories Shibboleth authentication (with ITS) Senate & Presidential Papers database Academic Data Centre …

Point of Intersection

Redesign for full integration Standards-based and accessible Supporting pedagogical & research missions

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What was recently unthinkable, What was recently unthinkable,

is now indispensable .is now indispensable . (anonymous)