About Core Services

Our role:

Core Services provides server infrastructure, systems integration, and automation of workflows and processes to support other units in LIT as well as other areas of the library system.

What we do:

• Server Hardware/Software Maintenance and Support: purchase, installation, repair, preventative maintenance, on-call support, security management, data backup, upgrades, and replacement for over twenty servers and over ten terabytes of storage in three different machine room locations across campus.
• Database Administration: installation, maintenance, and upgrades of several database environments
• System-level support: Management of the servers and databases that underlie many of the library's services, including Mirlyn, the library's web site, SFX, Library Authentication (which was developed within Core Services), the Library Proxy Server, and over 100 distinct digital text and image collections managed by DLPS and the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO).
• Production Work Flow Automation: examples include OCR processing and metadata management in DLPS, data loading and processing done within Core Services for DLPS, and some quality control procedures used in Preservation.
• Systems Integration: examples include participation in campus-wide working groups focusing on authentication, authorization, and directory services, and a pilot of the Shibboleth authentication and authorization system in partnership with ITCS
• Access Control: maintenance of access control rules behind Library Authentication to control access to locally-hosted web-based resources. As needs dictate, Core Services configures the system to restrict access to resources based on IP address, password, or a combination
• Data loading and archiving: loading, processing, tracking, and archiving digital images for collections managed by DLPS.

Our Goals:

Core Services Goals for the current planning year

Core Services Goals for previous years

Our Monthly Reports:

Core Services Cumulative Monthly Report for the current month

Core Services Cumulative Monthly Reports for previous months

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