CCS News
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM:
3.3.1 Test – The 3.3.1 test server will be available throughout the month. We have had only one library volunteer to help us in this effort – many thanks to them! Please may we hear from the rest of you?? Contact Willie in the Computer Room to assist us in testing or if you need us to resend our message of last week.
SIP connections and the Firewall – there is good news and bad news. Freegal from Library Ideas has been added to the list of certified SirsiDynix vendors. However, the popularity of SIP connections of late coupled with many network changes in the libraries has nearly “maxed-out” our firewall. We now manage about 300 connections and have little room for new connections. We are considering the large and costly task of expanding – but we need to see if we can work within our existing firewall by addressing “clean-up” first.
! If your network engineers are aware of connections from your end that are not longer in use – please contact Frank in the Computer Room. We put out a message about this to the maintenance group in anticipation of a need to “clean up” several weeks ago but there were only a few responses.
This makes it more important than ever to notify us well in advance of any projects needing a SIP or new network connection interface. It is not too early to alert us to projects you plan NEXT fiscal year.
BiblioCommons progress – This has been a flurry of activity. We have collected, reviewed and sent on the configurations for all libraries at this point. We must be excited about BiblioCommons (I know I am) because the compliance rate was really top notch. We had 86% of the libraries respond on time. Bibliocommons is configuring the interfaces and still has some work to do on scoping. We will let you know when the interfaces are ready for examination. Right now they are “under construction” so even if you discover the URL what you see is NOT necessarily what you get and could be misleading.
FREE PRINTERS AND PAPER AVAILABLE:
Christmas has come early from your friends at CCS, free to any library(s) that may be interested. We also have some boxes of 9 ½ X 11 STDR PERFS paper, and some boxes of notice paper (paper used to feed into these printers) to go with the each GENICOM printer(s). You can’t use lose leaf paper with these Genicoms.
You must come or arrange pickup at CCS. Contact the computer room if interested. They are in good condition, no known issues, and worked fine when printing out reports. We don’t have the manuals or any spare printer ribbons, or parts.
We have 2 Genicom 4840e printers, each one weighs about 250 Lbs : http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=genicom+4840e&hl=en&prmd=ivs&resnum=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=8164038974337771559&ei=1jbUTO2sDtOgnQegxK3mBQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEoQ8wIwAA#
CCS MEETINGS NEXT WEEK:
Wed., 11/10, 10:00, CCS: Executive Committee
Fri., 11/12, 9:30, Prospect Heights: Circ
