it activities and projects at tut library

International Week 2012, March 19-24, TUT Library

IT ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS AT TUT

LIBRARYMargus Vatko & Siim Liivand


Topics

IT Infrastructure

Hardware and Software

Services

Self-made developments and solutions


Computer hardware in TUTL

Number of PCs in the Library – 102

used by employees – 63

used by visitors – 39

Terminals (thin clients) – 57

used by employees – 12

used by visitors – 45

information kiosks - 16



Visitors and counter attendants all use the same new computer sets, which were procured at the same time with the new building.

PC – HP Compaq dc5800 SFF (Intel Pentium E5200 2.5GHz, 4 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista)

Thin Clients – Fujitsu FUTRO S450

Monitors 22“:HP L2245wg & Samsung SyncMaster 2243BW

HP Keyboard with integrated Smart Card Terminal



• Computers used by the staff have significant age variation.

• Operating system dominantly Windows XP (some Windows 7)

• 2 color laser printers, 1 color ink printer, 6 BW laser printers, 6 multifunction printers


Server room

New equipment, acquired with new building

•3 servers – IBM System x3550 M2(1× Intel Xeon E5520 2.26GHz, 6× 4GB RAM)

•EMC AX4-5 storage system18× 300 GB SAS, 18× 450 GB SAS, 25× 1 TB SATA

•Academic VMware vCenter Server 4

•EMC Avamar Backup Server

•Server room environmental monitoring NetBotz Rack Monitor 450


Server room

Põhitekst

new server rack old server rack(what’s left of it)

in case of fire(CF3-CHF-CF3)1,1,1,2,3,3,3–heptafluoropropane


Network

• Internet connection speeds:Tallinn University of Technology – 10 Gbit/sLibrary – 100 Mbit/s (router is the bottleneck)

• Local area network in library:Mixed gigabit and fast ethernet network,Cat6 copper and fiber-optic cabling,Nortel 4550T, 4548GT network switches (and a few other models)


Wi-Fi

The entire building has access to public Wi-Fi.There are four Wi-Fi access points on every floor, which provides a more or less optimal signal strength throughout the building. Wi-Fi is managed by the University’s IT department, not the library’s.

Wi-Fi access point on the ceiling


Software developmentsin the Library


Digital Collection

• Created in 2005.

• Goal is to provide web-based access to TUT dissertations, textbooks and online versions of study materials

• LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

• User interface currently only in estonian, but is being translated to english


Digikogu


Information kiosk

One single gate for accessing

•open stack guide

•e-catalogue ESTER

•ISE — Index Scriptorum Estoniae

•system for reserving study rooms


Information kiosk


Open stack guide

• displays the location of the items on the floors by subject

• direct links from e-catalogue to open stack guide

• Web-based

• .NET webforms application

• MS-SQL

• Ajax queries for a smoother user interface use

• Flash plugin to display map


Open stack guide


Reserving system

Offers a possibility to:

•reserve a group study room or

•individual study room

•.NET MVC 3 application

•MS-SQL

•Ajax queries for smoother user inferface use

•Flash plugin for display


Broneerimissüsteem


LibChat

Chat software

Information consultant’s computer houses the Chat server

Queries from the web go directly to the server

For the user it’s web-based

Requires Flash


LibChat


Software in the Bibliography division

Web-based

.NET webforms application

MS-SQL

Ajax queries for smoother user inferface use

A newer version is in development, which will integrate the digital collection in addition to other new features


Gate program

• For visitor registering at the gate

• Web-based

• Visitors use their reader card to register the visit

• The system also checks for fines and the validity of the card and notifies visitors and employees if there are any problems

• ASP, MS-SQL


Väravaprogramm


Information searching skills environment• Web-based distance education

environment

• Created in 2000.

• Student registers in the system with matriklenumber and ID number

• Everyone gets individual questions to answer

• A librarian will check the answers and grade the results

• When the student logs in again, they will see the results


Inventory software

For easier inventory we procured handheld terminals Honeywell Dolphin 9900 and software from the company ID Balti AS.


Services


Public computers

• 22 PCs in the computer class

• 12 PCs in the public area

• Windows XP,Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome,OpenOffice etc…


Public computers


Terminals in the reading areas

• 29 terminals for regular use and 16 for information kiosks

• The terminals are all Fujutsu FUTRO S450

• Advantages over PCs: easier to manage, silent work (important in a library), smaller

• In areas where it matters, they offer the same functionalities as PCs


Scanning work areas

Self-service scanners

On the 2., 3., 4. and 5. floor

Free service

In addittion to regularoffice software there isalso GIMP


Self check-out machines

2. and 3. floor


Self check-in machine


Monitor renting

Possibility to rent a monitor to use with a personal laptop.

Good for drafts, drawings


Printing and copying

There are copy machines on 2., 3. and 4. floor. These copy machines can be used for print jobs directly from the network. The copy machine on the second floor is cabable ofprinting in color.


Web (old and new)

• Saurus CMS


Book scanner

Minolta PS 7000

Black and white

Maximum size – A2

Text recognition

FineReader


Book scanner


Thank you

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