20 Sep 11 ITTS News Meeting – September 20, 2011
1. CMS Update (Louise)
Things are moving along
Everything will go into the review stage during the next few weeks
Showed the new versions of PLA, I Love Libraries, LLAMA, AASL, RUSA, ASCLA, LITA, YALSA (some of which still need some work) but are displaying at some level in the new system
Hope that all divisions will have first round of pages on the review site by the end of this week
Then we’ll start on the round tables, offices, and sections
Reviewers should begin hearing from Louise soon
Will take PLA live when Shibboleth is ready, hopefully next week
When your site is ready to go live, you do one last lookover with ITTS on Monday
Tuesday the site is frozen and the migration starts
Go live on Wednesday (can rollback to old site if things don’t go well)
Thursday you come to training (Friday if you can’t make Thursday)
Member volunteers will all eventually get trained, starting with iLinc webinars
Screenshot-based documentation and training will probably become available in December
We’ll be taking sites live on a rolling basis as they’re ready
Shibboleth is moving forward, with just one remaining hangup to get it working on the dev sites
2. Connect update (Jenny)
Showed the new “Suggestions” feature that will be coming soon
Connect Roadmap for FY12:
- Implement redesign (hopefully in October)
- Add Suggestions feature (hopefully in October)
- Midwinter Scheduler (November)
- Mobile version of the Scheduler (November)
- Migrate to Drupal 7 (work done in January, migrate in February)
- Merge Connect profiles into iMIS (February)
- Move to Single Sign-On with ala.org using Shibboleth (February)
- Migrate to in-house servers (March)
- Implement ala.org’s Solr search engine for federated and faceted searching (March)
3. Service outage on Tuesday, September 22, 2011, 5:30-8:30 pm CDT – corrected date (Sherri)
Hopefully the following services will only be down for a few hours early Wednesday evening
- iMIS
- Log in to the ALA website
- Log in to Connect
- Membership renewals
- Registration for events
- Fundraising
- KMS
- Track-It
- Drupal dev site for the new CMS
- New finance system (check requests, etc.)
- FRX
Staff: if you’re already logged in to the network, you’ll be able to keep working after 5:30 pm CDT; otherwise you won’t be able to log in during the outage
We’ll put up a message on the public sites when this happens so that users will see a meaningful message
