 GOALS OF THE PRESERVATION
DEPARTMENT
Fiscal Year 1997/1998
GENERIC/SUPPORT ACTIVIES
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- GOALS:
- Complete migration
of FILMLOG from Q&A
applications-program to MS-Access
applications-program.
- Migrate departmental
LAN, "Rodentia," from NOVELL to
Windows NT 4.x
- Migrate departmental
web server, "Karamelik," from
UNIX to Windows NT 4.x
- Evaluate
on-going services to identify
efficiencies
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Complete migration of FILMLOG
from Q&A applications-program to MS-Access
applications-program.
- Associated Library Goal:
- Implement a library management information system
- Primary Contact:
- Erich Kesse (erich@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)
- Performance Measure:
- Complete programming (i.e., tables,
reports and standard queries) to allow
migration without enhancement or loss of
functionality; migrate data.
- Outline plan for expansion of programming
for enhancement.
- Complete 15% of the enhancements.
- Progress:
- 1997 July 15. New
MS-Access'97 database structure defined;
85% of tables referencing MARC field
information mapped.
- 1997 September 01.
Documentation of existing Q&A
application completed.
- 1997 September 15.
Migration and further work contingent
upon LAN migration.
- 1998 May.
Migration of personal and place names complete,
migration of other data proceeding.
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Preservation Goals
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Migrate
departmental LAN, "Rodentia," from NOVELL to
Windows NT 4.x
- Associated Library Goal:
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- Primary Contact:
- Erich Kesse (erich@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)
- Performance Measure:
- Completion of migration prior to end of
fiscal year.
- Progress:
- 1997 July 01. Migration continent
upon availablity of Systems staff and
scheduling.
(Systems staff are responsible also for
bringing several new Windows NT servers
on-line; as long as the Preservation LAN
continues to function it has lower
priority.)
- 1997 September 10-12. Preservation
LAN crashed and restored long enough to
bring backups up to date. Migration
planned for the following week.
- 1998 May. Microsoft IIS upgraded to version 4.0;
new PERL and CGI.pm PERL module loaded
- 1998 June. Beginning to restore PERL programs
and develop ASP pages.
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Migrate departmental web
server, "Karamelik," from UNIX to Windows NT
4.x
- Associated Library Goal:
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- Primary Contact:
- Erich Kesse (erich@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)
- Performance Measure:
- Completion of migration prior to end of
fiscal year.
- Progress:
- 1997 July 01. Migration continent
upon availablity of Systems staff and
scheduling, as well as, Departmental LAN migration.
HTTP server will be merged with
Departmental LAN/file server.
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Evaluate on-going services to
identify efficiencies
- Associated Library Goal:
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- Primary Contact:
- Erich Kesse (erich@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)
John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)
Cathy Mook (cathy@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)
- Performance Measure:
- Unit heads will establish performance
measures, test and refine them before the
end of the fiscal year.
- Unit heads will evaluate 35% of services
to establish quantitative measures of
performance and performance expectations
and will begin discussions with
appropriate staff to establish
qualitative measures.
- Progress:
- See Other
Preservation Goals by Unit for
additional tracking.
- 1997 August 01. Unit heads have
established performance meansures for all
staff; refinement is a continuing goal.
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For additional information or reference
assistance, contact the Preservation Department at preserve@mail.uflib.ufl.edu
or telephone (352) 392-6962.
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