Last night I began some system maintenance to prepare our production environment for the installation of ILL2. In order to do this I had to shutdown Aleph so I could perform a cold backup of the database. The backup is still running and is a little over 2/3 complete. I estimate that it will take another 3-4 hours to complete but if it should finish sooner than that the system will be brought up immediately and a notice sent out. Once again, I apologize for the downtime but we are doing our best to fix ILL as quickly as possible and unfortunately, taking the system back down is our first step. If there are any changes I will make sure to update everyone.
Thanks,
Sean
Sean Crooks
Systems Administrator/Network Security
South Dakota Library Network
605.642.6252
scrooks@sdln.net
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
SDLN update - Important information for ILL users
The migration to the new software for the library catalog is mostly complete.
The one exception to a successful migration was the Inter Library Loan (ILL) function. This part of the system is aparently badly broken. We anticipate the ILL functionality of the catalog will not be available for several weeks.
The good news is, we have a backup system that on campus users can access.
To place your interlibrary loan request go to http://www.worldcat.org find the record for the item that you would like us to borrow for you. Click on request item, fill out the form that opens. You will need to fill in only the fields marked with an * for books.
For copies of journal articles find the record for the journal, fill out the form and enter the vol, number, and pages desired into the Comments field.
If you have questions or problems please contact Scott (mailto:Scott.Hall@sdsmt.edu)
The one exception to a successful migration was the Inter Library Loan (ILL) function. This part of the system is aparently badly broken. We anticipate the ILL functionality of the catalog will not be available for several weeks.
The good news is, we have a backup system that on campus users can access.
To place your interlibrary loan request go to http://www.worldcat.org find the record for the item that you would like us to borrow for you. Click on request item, fill out the form that opens. You will need to fill in only the fields marked with an * for books.
For copies of journal articles find the record for the journal, fill out the form and enter the vol, number, and pages desired into the Comments field.
If you have questions or problems please contact Scott (mailto:Scott.Hall@sdsmt.edu)
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