About the Webinar
When young, we look to the sky and see shapes in clouds. We watch as the cloud reshapes into something else. Like actual clouds, the world of digital cloud-based tools seems to also be ever changing as this new technology is developed. For librarians, trend of moving ILS systems to the cloud has exciting possibilities but enthusiasm is tempered by uncertainty. Cloud-based web services are a somewhat new tool, and as such, options are limited. These services are being continuously upgraded, and librarians need to have a voice in the development of these tools to be sure their needs are met.
Libraries have needs that are complex and evolving and available ILS systems are presently limited in their abilities. Minimally, an ILS system will track what the library owns, its patrons, what they have borrowed, and other general library services. These minimal functions do not take into account the need for integration with the wider array of online services libraries offer nor integration into services of the libraries’ academic institution.
This webinar will discuss what capabilities libraries need versus the capabilities currently offered in commercial ILS systems, and possible short-term solutions as well as helping ILS cloud services to understand better what future versions of their products should include.
Event Sessions
Introduction
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Utilizing the Cloud to Empower Research Efforts
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As the volume and diversity of content explodes, libraries struggle to provide researchers access and support discoverability of this rapidly growing body of information, which is increasingly comprised of electronic resources. Unlike older technological systems based on inventory and management of print resources, the cloud provides improved economies of scale to manage a variety of content types. With modern researchers increasingly collaborating on interdisciplinary research across locations, cloud-based systems better serve a broader and more diverse group of researchers and also offer improved access to near real-time resources. Next generation cloud-based ILS supporting management of print & electronic resources across the entire collection help libraries further improve the research experience, whether inside the library or in other locations.
Migrating CDL Infrastructure to Amazon Web Services
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Starting in 2014, CDL has been working through a project to migrate their entire technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. This project is well under way and we currently have 115 EC2 instances, 51 RDS (MySQL) instances, 358 EBS volumes, 7 load balancers, and 40 S3 buckets actively used by our services. We support Development, Stage, and Production environments within our AWS infrastructure, and are currently working in a hybrid mode with some services and functions still running in our local data centers while we complete our migration efforts. This presentation will be an overview of why we decided to move to a cloud provider, what benefits we have seen to date, and where we see ourselves going in the future.
Surveying the Horizon: Preservation and the Cloud
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Preserving digital information is becoming an ever more important role of libraries and archives in our digital society. Cloud computing and, more specifically, cloud-based data storage offers some potential to help address the issues information professionals face. Yet, not everyone agrees that cloud computing is the best solution. By examining the problem, reviewing the literature, and assessing best practices, it is possible to understand some of the issues that need to be considered.
Additional Information
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Registration closes at 12:00 p.m. (ET) on October 14, 2015. Cancellations made by October 7, 2015 will receive a refund, less a $25 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
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Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the webinar via e-mail the Monday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions.
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If you have not received your Login Instruction email by 10:00 a.m. (ET) on the Tuesday before the webinar, at please contact the NISO office or email Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager at jwood@niso.org for immediate assistance.
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Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. You may have as many people as you like from the registrant's organization view the webinar from that one connection. If you need additional connections, you will need to enter a separate registration for each connection needed.
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If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact Juliana Wood to provide alternate contact information.
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Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free webinar connection as part of their membership and DO NOT need to register for the event for this free connection. Your webinar contact will receive the login instructions the Monday before the event. You may have as many people as you like from the member's library view the webinar from that one connection. If you need additional connections beyond the free one, then you will need to enter a paid registration (at the member rate) for each additional connection required.
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Webinar presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to the site following the live webinar.
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Registrants and LSA member webinar contacts will receive an e-mail message containing access information to the archived webinar recording within 48 hours after the event. This recording access is only to be used by the registrant's or member's organization.