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2022-01-06 Meeting

2022-01-06 Meeting

Jan 20, 2022

Present: 

  • Stephanie Ayers 

  • Esmé Cowles 

  • Kate Lynch 

  • Kevin Reiss 

Agenda and Notes:

  • (Kate) Microsoft Access alternatives update

    • Challenges to finding a sustainable realistic alternative that's going to work with Windows Auth

    • Two options for continuing to support read access

      • Let it go until Access is no longer viable

      • Set an end date and everything goes into excel or sheets on that date. 

      • What DBs are we talking about (all on e-reserves system)

        • MASC - Follow up with staff on advising them to get the data out by X date. 

        • PPPL Cat - Kevin will check with Peter to see where this went with Marc records. Dump database and store it on S3?

        • Supplementary Catalog - Steph will check to see who is still using this, Esmé can check with them and see how they use it and if Figgy would be a good replacement

        • Reserves - move to simple search/browse interface

  • (Kevin) Voyager sunsetting:

    • Voyager - Goal is to shut down by end of Jan.

      • Converting database from Oracle to Postgres. Esmé will ask Simeon from Cornell about their Oracle-to-Postgres tooling that they used for their Voyager data

      • Cornell may have a script to share with us that can help with this. 

    • SFX  - reconfirmed with E-resource staff that this still needed for active clean-up work still related to the alma migration. Shut down date - June 2022. 

  • (Steph) System decommissioning:

    • Disconnected from the network: Lib-serv24, libserv127, and Meridian

    • http://webvoyage.princeton.edu/ has been made inaccessible

    • Close to decommissioning libserv64

    • Lib-elixir.princeton.edu?

      • Check with Francis or Trey on status

      • On it's own system: lib-elixir-test - already decommissioned