Category: Projects and Processes
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Space planning requires expertise and patience
How does LITS coordinate the office moves of 92 employees, between three buildings, and including new construction, network alignment, and all VOIP and data needs all in one effort? Call Susan Greene, of course. As a dedicated construction project manager, Susan is an expert at these types of activities. Working with Wayne Angel (Planning, Design & Construction) and…
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Update on the Library Service Center
Some serious work is being done on the Library Service Center (LSC), a collaborative project between Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Scheduled to open for business this fall, the LSC is currently being constructed on Emory’s Briarcliff property, offering an off-campus location for collections from all of Emory’s libraries. According to the project charter,…
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Emory FIRST expanded to utilize OpenEmory
Emory FIRST, a software tool for faculty to centrally record and manage citations for their publications, has been expanded to also be a path for depositing articles into OpenEmory through the repository connector. OpenEmory is an open access repository of scholarly articles by faculty and a service of the Emory Libraries. By making Emory faculty…
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BI Initiatives: where we are and where we are going
BI – EBI – OBIEE –– Oh me, oh my! Sounds like “Old MacDonald” had a few too many. Instead, we have a few too many acronyms that need to be defined. Several members of the Finance department partnered with the Enterprise Applications Data Warehouse team on the first phase of the Emory Business Intelligence…
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LITS Branding: Email Signatures
In order to properly represent our division to our various clients and patrons, we have been refreshing our branding over the past 18 months to reflect our “Library & Information Technology Services” (LITS) identity. Branding or graphic identity can take many forms, ranging from exterior building signage, uniforms, vehicle signage, business cards, departmental letterhead, brochures,…
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ITIL Intermediate training gets creative
The December 2014 5-day ITIL Intermediate Capability course, taught by Nicole McFarland, was an exercise in the application of ITIL knowledge. A departure from the lecture format of the foundational ITIL coursework offered by ITSMO, this class required twelve hours of outside study so that the students could do activities to apply their knowledge. Some examples…
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Authentication for licensed library resources
On January 5, 2015, the Emory Libraries will implement the same login process for accessing e-books, e-journals, databases and other library licensed content online as is currently used by other Emory resources, such as Compass and HR Self-Service. Authorized Emory University and Healthcare faculty, staff and students will be required to use their netID and password to login…