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Thanksgiving holiday support and special schedules
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Nov 20, 2009 9:29:18 AM | By ms56
Yale University will observe Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, 2009, as a holiday and the Friday after, November...

OLE (Open Library Environment) Joins Kuali Foundation
CMS Weblog | OSS | Nov 19, 2009 5:37:40 PM | By dlovins
Library Journal reports that OLE has joined the Kuali Foundation . OLE is sort of like VuFind, but consists mostly o...

Postdoc Holiday Party
The Postdoc Blog | General | Nov 18, 2009 3:00:00 PM | By ilm3
Save the date for the Postdoc Holiday Party. Here's the flyer . Friday 12/11 from 8pm-2am at the Lounge at GPSCY 2...

Report on the Faltering MARC Market: Call to Action? Defense of LC?...
CMS Weblog | Change Management | Nov 17, 2009 3:00:00 PM | By dlovins
" ... Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world … " - William Butler ...

Improving reliability of AD integrated applications
Ken @ Yale | Windows | Nov 16, 2009 4:14:02 PM | By kjh27
In the early days Active Directory at Yale, the need was foreseen for systems and applications which could not dynamical...

New ITS virtualization service - so long, hardware!
Ken @ Yale | Windows | Nov 9, 2009 12:06:30 PM | By kjh27
ITS has announced the availability of a new and robust virtual server platform. This platform, based on VMware techno...

Berlin Wall Anniversary Part II: What's being said in the Chinese...
disOriented | General | Nov 6, 2009 12:26:19 AM | By sam23
What do you mean 'not everyone is celebrating?' Obviously China is not celebrating the anniversary of the toppling...

Berlin Wall Anniversary Part I: China and the global media love-fest ...
disOriented | Berlin Wall | Nov 6, 2009 12:23:25 AM | By sam23
On the eve of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the Western press has been filled with obligatory (and most...

'Five Colleges' Consider Tech Services Consolidation ...
CMS Weblog | Change Management | Nov 5, 2009 4:19:41 PM | By dlovins
From the November issue of American Libraries : " Tech Services Consolidation Looms over Massachusetts' Five Colle...

Stephen Abram on Open Source Library Systems
CMS Weblog | OSS | Nov 3, 2009 2:08:24 PM | By dlovins
A position paper by SirsiDynix V.P. for Innovation Stephen Abram has been making the rounds and provoking some interes...

Happy Halloween
bricoleursdaughter | General | Oct 31, 2009 8:17:19 PM | By ecastle
Happy Halloween, here is a slideshow of clever disguises…

happy halloween , originally uploaded by Bricoleur's Daughter . ...
bricoleursdaughter | root | Oct 31, 2009 1:22:16 PM | By ecastle
happy halloween , originally uploaded by Bricoleur's Daughter .

Changes to internal and external telephone dialing
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 30, 2009 12:00:10 AM | By ms56
Two upcoming changes will affect the way you use your phone at Yale, mobile, and at home in the coming weeks: Tele...

Mailing lists make group emails a snap
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 30, 2009 12:00:09 AM | By ms56
Mailing lists are generally used when you need to send messages to a group of people on multiple occasions. Rather tha...

The new YaleInfo portal for faculty and staff
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 30, 2009 12:00:07 AM | By ms56
On September 28th, staff and faculty users of YaleInfo were introduced to a new portal designed to present a se...

University expands high performance computing resources
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 30, 2009 12:00:05 AM | By ms56
As part of its Science Cores Initiative, the office of the Provost is working with ITS, the Faculty of Arts & Scie...

Yale ITS launches CyberSecurity Awareness Podcast Series
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 30, 2009 12:00:04 AM | By ms56
The Yale ITS Information Assurance ofﬁce launched a podcast series as part of National CyberSecurity Awareness month. T...

Take a music class or study the psychology of food on Open Yale Courses ...
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 30, 2009 12:00:02 AM | By ms56
Ten new courses spanning a range of topics from music to evolution have been released on Open Yale Courses ( http://op...

Library as metaphor
CMS Weblog | Metadata | Oct 29, 2009 11:58:36 AM | By mbeacom
Here is a link to a posting on my personal blog that may be of interest to other readers of CMS blog. http://mlb...

White House, Growing Number of Libraries, Implement Open-Source Drupal ...
CMS Weblog | OSS | Oct 26, 2009 9:33:58 AM | By dlovins
As reported in today’s slashdot , the U.S. Presidential web site, whitehouse.gov , has just been re-implemented using ...

Chinese children’s books: Ashtrays and copyright infringement
disOriented | books | Oct 23, 2009 3:53:55 PM | By sam23
Every so often, I pickup children’s books while shopping. The vocabulary is simple and sometimes us...

bedtime story , originally uploaded by Bricoleur's Daughter . ...
bricoleursdaughter | root | Oct 21, 2009 7:01:40 AM | By ecastle
bedtime story , originally uploaded by Bricoleur's Daughter .

"Combating link spam at Yale" PowerPoint presentation available...
Systems Alchemy | General | Oct 20, 2009 1:44:49 PM | By ljr28
As a followup to my previous post on combating link spam at Yale , the PowerPoint I have used twice so far to present t...

Meetings disappearing? YaleConnect solutions
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 12, 2009 12:00:00 AM | By ms56
Are you or your clients experiencing issues with meetings disappearing or not showing up on all YaleConnect calendars? ...

National Day propaganda posters
disOriented | Propaganda | Oct 10, 2009 1:27:33 PM | By sam23
While my previous post addressed the National Day Festivities in Beijing, I realize that I neglected to mention how the ...

Some belated thoughts on National Day
disOriented | National Day | Oct 7, 2009 12:00:00 PM | By sam23
National Day (or “ Al Nakba ,” as I believe it is known in the Taiwanese dialect) has come and gone, and m...

Medical Mission to Honduras
Britt @ Yale University ... | General | Oct 5, 2009 5:11:51 PM | By bc363
I would like to contribute to a medical mission to Honduras January 23rd – 31th, 2010. The program will consist of a we...

Apple's Snow Leopard: Doesn't yet work with some key...
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 5, 2009 12:00:04 AM | By ms56
On August 28, Apple released its new operating system, Snow Leopard. At this time ITS does not recommend upgrading to S...

Farewell Yale Heritage
Beyond the Basement: | General | Oct 3, 2009 10:18:04 PM | By sat35
Last week I was a silent witness to two sad days in Yale's history: the demolition of Professor Daniel Cady Eaton former...

A note about the name of this blog
disOriented | General | Oct 3, 2009 6:10:19 AM | By sam23
A note about the name of this blog: Yes, I realize that phrases referencing “the Orient” are largely con...

Windows 7 is coming: Be prepared
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Oct 2, 2009 12:00:03 AM | By ms56
In October 2009, Microsoft is released Windows 7, its next generation operating system. ITS is committed to fully sup...

Comrades, let there be light
disOriented | About | Sep 30, 2009 12:00:00 PM | By sam23
“ Tongbaomen, I hereby proclaim the founding of this blog.” - Scott, October 1, 2009. In the spirit of...

I see your 2MB download and raise you three lines of Powershell. ...
Ken @ Yale | Windows | Sep 29, 2009 12:00:18 PM | By kjh27
There is a T-shirt for sale in various places (mainly targeted at unix/Linux admins) which has the single line: " ...

MASSAGE CHAIRS!
bricoleursdaughter | General | Sep 24, 2009 8:08:36 PM | By ecastle
MASSAGE CHAIRS! , originally uploaded by Bricoleur's Daughter . S went to Big E for a field trip this week. Had to do...

Convert A Bulleted List To SmartArt In Word 2007
Human Resources: Organizational... | General | Sep 18, 2009 4:23:57 PM | By se44
A question was asked in a recent Office 2007 class, relating to the ability to convert a bulleted list to SmartArt in a ...

oh..the translator widget
bricoleursdaughter | General | Sep 17, 2009 6:08:02 PM | By ecastle
oh... the translator widget , originally uploaded by Bricoleur's Daughter . Don't forget your Huttagesgeld, tomorrow ...

Guess what happens, win a prize?
Ken @ Yale | Exchange Project | Sep 14, 2009 4:28:27 PM | By kjh27
When this value climbs past 12,000, what will happen? 1) Nothing 2) An array crash plus an Exchange outage 3) A...

Metadata Woes at Google Books
CMS Weblog | Metadata | Sep 11, 2009 4:44:28 PM | By dlovins
There's an interesting article by UC Berkeley library science professor Geoffrey Nunberg in the August 31st issue of the...

Nieuwsbrief 2
Britt @ Yale University ... | General | Sep 6, 2009 10:07:02 PM | By bc363
Lieve mensen, de tijd vliegt voorbij! Inmiddels vertoef ik hier al meer dan een maand aan de andere kant van de oceaan… ...

Yale ITS promotes secure computing
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Sep 3, 2009 12:00:10 AM | By ms56
Using last year's successful campus-wide secure computing awareness campaign as a model, Yale ITS is gearing up for anot...

New wirless networks on campus
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Sep 3, 2009 12:00:06 AM | By ms56
As you arrive on campus, you may notice that there are new wireless networks available. In addition to the “yale wire...

Data management includes a backup strategy
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Sep 3, 2009 12:00:05 AM | By ms56
The most important part of any computer is the data that resides on it. The documents, images, spreadsheets, databas...

Upgrading Office: Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows & Office 2008 for...
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Sep 3, 2009 12:00:02 AM | By ms56
As the Director of ITS Support Technologies, I am pleased to announce ITS’ plans for the staged deployment of Microsoft...

Yale launches new events calendar
ITS Announcements & News ... | General | Sep 3, 2009 12:00:01 AM | By ms56
The Secretary’s Office and Information Technology Services—in partnership with stakeholders including the Office of Pu...

Visit the new location of 'Mental Notes'
Mental Notes | For our Seminar | Sep 2, 2009 9:56:16 AM | By jdi4
I have decided to move my blog to a more public space so that a variety of individuals will be allowed to comment on my ...

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