Re: Remote Servers at Large Academics

["Margaret Peloquin" <peloquin at austincc dot edu>]

Our Library Sys Admin might also respond to this.  We are a six campus 
college with about 27,000 students.  Our ILS server is not on any campus, but 
at a Service Center for the College which houses most of the College's 
servers and the College IT department.  "Production" -- assume you mean 
acquisitons and cataloging -- is located about 25 miles from the Service 
Center on one of the campuses.

IT maintains the equipment, does the daily backup, trouble-shoots network 
issues,etc.  The Library Sys Admin does any new upgrades by going over to the 
Service Center, but, otherwise has no need to go there for any other reason.

I might mention that Library Services and IT are under the same divisional 
umbrella and we do have a good relationship with them.


"Byron C. Mayes" <bcmayes at temple dot edu> said:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've checked the archives and recent discussions about ILS servers remote 
from
> the Library. Most of those replying seem to be public library systems, 
smaller
> colleges, and consortia. 
> 
> I'm interested in getting an idea of what the breakdown is in large academic
> systems. I'm primarily interested in two questions:
> 
> 1) Where is your production ILS server located?
> 
> 2) Regardless of the answer to 1), what is the division of labor between 
Library
> Systems and University IT -- specifically, who does what -- with regards to
> system administration and maintenance (not including database management)?
> 
> Obviously the key to any arrangement working is a good relationship between 
the
> Library and Univ IT (however that's defined at one's institution), so I'm 
not
> really asking pros and cons of either arrangement. I just want to have a 
picture
> of what others are doing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Byron
> 
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