2022-01-06 Meeting

Present:

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