RE: Remote Servers at Large Academics

[Sara Brownmiller <snb at darkwing dot uoregon dot edu>]

Bryon,

The UO Libraries has its own secure, environmentally controlled server
room, located in our building.  It's probably the only one on campus,
outside the campus Computing Center, that was designed as a server room
and did not start it's life as a closet.  Access to this room is limited
to a very small number of people.  We currently run about 40 servers in
this room -- from our innopac server to an inn-reach server to file
servers for library staff to the library's web server to citrix server
farms to support public workstations and lab computers to the campus
blackboard application server to mass storage servers for our digital
collections.

Staff in my department are completely responsible for all servers, from
purchase to installation to maintenance, run by the library.  We do have a
very good relationship with our campus computing folks, but we take care
of our own machines.

In terms of staff, there are a total of 6 fulltime employees, including
myself.  We will be adding another classified staff position very soon to
support our information technology centers (computing labs) because
responsiblity for these labs was just moved into the Systems Department.
Of the 7 staff we will soon have, three of them will be involved in server
administration and maintenance.

We do collaborate on a couple of projects with Computing Center staff.
For Blackboard, the library runs and supports the application server,
while computing center staff run and support the database server for this
service.  Computing center staff also run and support the server for the
campus streaming video system, currently virage.  Most of the production
work for virage is handled by library staff.

I'd be glad to try to answer any other questions you might have.

Sara

Sara Brownmiller			University of Oregon Libraries
Director, Library Systems 		1299 University of Oregon
Women's Studies Librarian		Eugene, OR  97403-1299
					541/346-2368 (voice)
snb at uoregon dot edu				541/346-3485 (fax)

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

-- 
Byron C. Mayes, MLS
Head, Library Systems & Technology
Temple University * Philadelphia, PA
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