Category: Projects and Processes
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IT Briefing needs your feedback
We are conducting a survey regarding the LITS IT Briefing. A mainstay of Emory IT for over 17 years, the IT Briefing is a monthly collection of speakers regarding various IT projects. Members of the broader IT community at Emory are invited to attend and ask questions of the subject matter experts who present. The…
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Emory Libraries’ new age of digital signage begins ones box at a time
Last week heralded the delivery of a special wooden box in the Woodruff Library loading dock. With great excitement, Derek Butler, Marc Harrison, Norman Hulme, and Edgar Perez unboxed the Information Kiosk, the first physical piece of equipment in Emory Libraries’ digital signage project. The Information Kiosk, standing almost eight feet high, was delivered by Boyd…
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Emory Data Storage transformed with an eye to the future
The Data Storage team has finished a complete storage migration to new storage servers, and the results are impressive. Through this six-month process, the team members reduced their price per gigabyte of storage by 65%, their power utilization by 70%, and their footprint (actual floorspace for equipment) by 80%. “This block storage refresh is a…
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Emory Libraries award first Innovation Grants
Libraries Grants Support Committee announced this week the recipients of the first Libraries Innovation Grants. Emory Libraries offered two internal grants this year, the Innovation Grant and the Mini Grant, to support innovation or the purchase of tools or training that will enrich existing library services, programs, and workflows. This year’s recipients are: Ellen Ambrosone (Woodruff…
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Microsoft Office Suite from Office 365/OWA
Did you know that all Emory employees (Healthcare, faculty, staff) as well as students, are eligible for Microsoft (MS) Office via Office 365 without costing you a dime? It gets better – the license allows you to install up to 5 copies of MS Office on your various computers. You are also licensed to install MS…
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Course Reserves adds FLIP lending library
This summer, Emory’s First-Generation Low Income Partnership (“FLIP”) and the Course Reserves team collaborated on bringing the FLIP lending library to Woodruff Library. This collection was started with the goal of helping first generation and low-income students acquire books for their courses. It is comprised solely of student donations, and available books range across multiple…
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New for Fall 2017 – an improved ETD site
Emory Libraries launched a completely redeveloped Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) site on August 24, 2017. The previous ETD site was a successful mainstay of the libraries’ core systems but required a facelift to keep up with the most current technology needs of students, faculty and staff. Things to know: The new site provides easy-to-use…