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MnPALS Technical Services Report: April 2009

System news and work completed

  • Upgraded to version 19 on production on March 21, 2009. Overall, the process went smoothly with only a few minor bumps along the way.
  • Ordered RAM to upgrade servers.
  • Wrote custom programming to restore a couple of fields that were accidentally clobbered by a circulation process in the Oracle z68 Order table for NDC.
  • Changed the update process for MnPALS Plus from once a day to four times a day.
  • Loaded March Marcive records for libraries that subscribe to the service.
  • Attended the Reference Users Group workday.

Work in progress

  • Ongoing system maintenance and upgrades.
  • Attending Indexing Task Force meetings.
  • Attending the PALS Communication Team meeting.
  • Continuing to work on PALS Support Center tickets. An influx of tickets have been related to version 19.
  • Continuing to work with the UNIX system monitoring software. Working with the student systems administration assistant to learn and work with Nagios.
  • Continuing to perform weekly updates to the Authority database on the production server.
  • Working on SQL reports and services.
  • Loading PromptCat records for Minnesota School of Business (MSB).
  • Working on custom programming to add the 035 field with the OCLC number to records identified by St. John’s University (SBJ).
  • Continuing to work on MnPALS Plus and VuFind. Working on recommendations from the Discovery Tool Task Force.
  • Distributed the Discovery Tool software package to ODIN. Received a full database record extract and loaded it. Waiting to hear from them to complete the configuration process.
  • Will be ordering a new server for MnPALS Plus.
  • Preparing to upgrade Solaris on Alto and Tenor within the next two weeks. Downtime will be minimal.
  • Working on creating a backup server/zone for CUFTS and GODOT.
  • Moved z39.50 target for Aleph ILL locates between TdS and MSU and GRRL system and SCS into production.
  • Created the A-Z list in GODOT.
  • Will be attending the Koha Conference 2009 in Plano, Texas from April 15 – 17, 2009.
  • Will be attending the Evergreen International Conference 2009 in Virginia in May.
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