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This Week in IUL News
- Passphrase Expiration Notice
- The War of 1812 Captured Online Through Lilly
Library Collections
- Thank You to the War of 1812 Project
Team!
Staff News
It's my
pleasure to announce that Alicia
McCarther's last day in Library
Administration will be August 3. Pleasure,
you ask? Yes! Alicia and her husband
Sean will be moving to the East Coast where Sean
has taken a tenure track faculty position at the
prestigious Westminster Choir College in
Princeton, NJ. Many of you know that Alicia
and Sean have been in Bloomington during
Sean's tenure as a masters and doctoral
student in the Jacobs School of Music.
While we will miss Alicia very much, we
wish the McCarther family the very best of
luck. Alicia's future plans include
starting their family with their first baby due in October.
Please join me in thanking Alicia and
wishing her the best of luck.
In the interim period, please submit room
reservations or any questions to me.
Submitted by:
Amy Cope, Library Administration, IUB
Library News and Events
Passphrase
Expiration Notice
IU will
phase in expirations for any passphrase that is
more than two years old, beginning on Monday,
September 10. Detailed information on this
process can be found in the Knowledge Base (KB) at
http://uits.iu.edu/page/bbtp. This
process will apply to all students, faculty, and
staff at IU's eight campuses. Users will
begin getting warnings, months in advance of the
expiration date. Users who don't change
their passphrases by this date will immediately
lose access to CAS-supported resources such as
Oncourse, OneStart, ePTO, OTP authentication and
PeopleSoft. Affected users will regain
access after completing the passphrase reset,
using the Self-Service Passphrase Reset tool (https://passphrase.iu.edu).
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?
Old passwords
and passphrases can jeopardize the security of
personal and university data. Passphrase
expirations help protect this data against hacking
and misuse.
HOW WILL THIS BE ENFORCED? Passphrase
expiration will only be enforced via CAS, IU's
Central Authentication System. Network IDs
will not be locked or disable. This means you will
still be able to log in to non-CAS services such
as workstations, email, and VPN.
HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT PASSPHRASE
EXPIRATION? Visit: http://uits.iu.edu/passphrase.
Submitted by:
Robert McDonald, Associate Dean for Library
Technologies, IUB
The War of 1812
Captured Online Through Lilly Library
Collections
During the War
of 1812, British troops set fire to the Library of
Congress, destroying the collections within.
Two hundred years later, however, a library has
now captured the war: Indiana University's
Lilly Library has digitized hundreds of
manuscripts, books, maps, and prints that
illuminate the history of the War of 1812.
A new website, The War of 1812 in the Collections of the
Lilly Library, tells the story of this
little-understood war through digitized primary
source documents which have been made available
for the first time thank to technology and
technical services staff at the IU
Libraries. These items range from the
official declaration of war to a receipt for
canteen straps and include such resources as
anti-war pamphlets, a letter describing the
burning of Washington, D.C., and a satirical print
of James Madison boxing King George III.
Visitors to the site can access high-resolution
images of the documents by following the timeline
of events, browsing by tag (from Aaron Burr to
Zachary Taylor), or searching by keyword.
"There aren't many large digital
projects on the War of 1812, especially not
originating from the United States," said
Lilly Library Director Breon Mitchell.
"This site makes a major contribution by
providing not just the story of the war, but also
a wealth of original books and documents that draw
people into the history of the conflict in the way
only primary sources can."
The broadsides, books, and pamphlets in the
project include early printings of the
Star-Spangled Banner, government publications,
sermons, reports, histories, and memoirs.
Manuscript materials include correspondence, log
books, legal documents, diaries, speeches, letter
copybooks, and orderly books.
The digital archive precedes a major
exhibition of the War of 1812 in the Main Gallery
of the Lilly Library that will open September 2012
and run through December.
"Never before has the Lilly Library
created an exhibition where every item on display
is also digitized online," said Brenda
Johnson, Ruth Lilly Dean of University
Libraries. "In this case, the online
archive actually includes more fully digitized
items than we can fit into the gallery
exhibition. Our ability to share these
documents with a broader audience makes this an
especially exciting time to explore this period in
American history."
Submitted by:
Erika Dowell, Interim Head of Technological
Services, Lilly Library, IUB, and Dot Porter,
Associate Director for Digital Library Content
& Services, Digital Library Program, IUB --
Co-Directors, War of 1812 Project
Thank You to the
War of 1812 Project Team!
This project would not have been possible without
the cooperation of several units of IUB
Libraries. Staff of the Digital Library
Program developed innovative uses of the Omeka
Platform, digitized thousands of rare books and
manuscripts, conducted usability evaluation of the
web site, and planned social media strategy.
Under a short deadline, the Technical Services
Department's Cataloging Division encoded the
enormous War of 1812 manuscript collection finding
aid, provided access points for the more than
3,000 items in that finding aid, created metadata
for 200 prints, and cataloged 17 rare maps.
Lilly Library staff selected materials, did
troubleshooting on encoding questions, encoded
several smaller EAD finding aids, retrospectively
converted catalog records for items to be
digitized, and digitized materials too rare to
travel to the Wells Library.
We've tried to list everyone by name,
below, with the exception of Lilly Library
staff. Nearly every full-time and student
employee of the Lilly Library helped at last
once with daily pick up and delivery of War
of 1812 manuscript materials during the summer of
2011. Asterisks denote members of the
project team.
We feel grateful and privileged to have
worked with such a wonderful group of people to
make this site. Its debut this summer, just
over a year since we started, is testimony to the
expertise and cooperative spirit of the employees
of the IU Bloomington Libraries.
Thank you!
Technical Services
Department
Jennifer Liss*
Laila Salibi-Cripe*
Colleen Talty
Shelly Couvrette
Heiko Muhr
Digital Library Program
William Cowan*
Julie Hardesty*
Hui
Zhang*
Kara Alexander*
Annette Smith*
Lilly Library
Zach
Downey
Carly Sentieri
Danielle
Emerling
Annie Bolotin
Dorothy
Waugh
Phil Evans
Elizabeth Johnson
Reference Services
Chanitra Bishop
Thanks to you all!
Submitted by:
Erika Dowell, Interim Head of Technological
Services, Lilly Library, IUB, and Dot Porter,
Associate Director for Digital Library Content
& Services, Digital Library Program, IUB --
Co-Directors, War of 1812
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