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Contacts

Hours: 8:30am - 5pm M-F
Phone: 217-244-6300

Address:
424 Library, MC-522
1408 West Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801

Urgent server problems can be reported at other times to the Information Desk (333-2290)

IT Infrastructure News

ISD News

CMS accessibility improvements
May 22, 2008
ISD has made more improvements to web page validity and accessibility

W. Jason Strutz hired by ISD
May 22, 2008
By J. Weible
W. Jason Strutz has been recently to work in the ISD unit

CMS Upgrade Completed
May 21, 2008
By J. Weible
Our OpenCms upgrade has been successfully completed

Track System Update
Apr 29, 2008
By J. Weible
"Track," our software project tracking system now has 30 projects

CMS upgrade status report
Apr 28, 2008
By J. Weible
We have successfully upgraded a copy of the production CMS system...

Display fixes for CMS articles
Apr 28, 2008
By J. Weible
A couple of minor changes have been made recently to improve display of news articles

CMS users milestone
Apr 23, 2008
By J. Weible
We now have over 100 trained editors in the CMS system

CMS Upgrade Status Report 3-17-08
Mar 17, 2008
By J. Weible
This article details the current status of the progress toward upgrading the Library's OpenCms system.

Library Home Page Now Dynamic
Mar 4, 2008
News & Events are now extracted in near-real-time from the CMS

CMS News Articles now feed RSS
Feb 19, 2008
By John Weible
The CMS's News Articles now automatically produce RSS feeds.

Using CMS Hours Module
Feb 12, 2008
By Saif Abayazid
How to use the Hours Module

Library forums need an upgrade
Feb 5, 2008
We're planning to upgrade the forums to phpBB version 3.0

Forums (phpBB) email problem
Dec 14, 2007
Email "subscriptions" to Library forums (phpBB system) no longer work.

New Image Plugin
Nov 8, 2007
By Alex Waite
The new plugin allows browsing of the CMS filesystem and use of image gallery folders.

News Articles module ready to use
Oct 26, 2007
By John Weible
The CMS has been customized to add support for news article documents with many display features.

Include Module ready to use
Oct 9, 2007
By John Weible
It is now possible to have the CMS automatically include content from one file inside any number of others. This is a tremendous boon to editing productivity and management of site consistency.

Web platform now multi-tiered
Jul 22, 2007
By John Weible
Our web server structure is now more flexible and improves the integration of separate systems

Web Platforms including the CMS
Jul 6, 2007
We're making many upgrades and changes to the Library's web servers.

SAN and Virtual Machines
May 1, 2007
We've installed new data storage and server virtualization systems to improve management, flexibility, and reliability of our services.