Linda Ackers
(Formerly Linda Grenz)
Library Information Technology Coordinator
541.463.5640
ackersl@lanecc.edu
Working with my colleagues to present library services to students, faculty, and staff.
What I do
- Maintain functionality of Library's integrated system (Innovative Interfaces), and troubleshoot system problems.
- Oversee system upgrades and design.
- Manage the Library's websites including design, creation, functionality, and web programming:
- Design and implement training for staff.
- Configure and administer online databases - Innovative Interface's WAM proxy.
- Research and recommend acquisitions of new technology and system modules.
- Assist librarians in the purchase of technology related resources.
New and Ongoing Projects
- EBSCO Discovery Service - coming Spring 2013
- Book Delivery for Downtown Campus - coming Spring 2013
- Kindle Book Lending (committee) - coming Spring 2013
- Assignment Calculator content by Jen Klaudinyi (code from University of Minnesota Libraries) - in production
- Instruction Request MySQL and Admin Panel - Fall 2012 ongoing
- Library Drupal Website Redesign (committee) - on hold
- Web usability studies (committee) - ongoing
- Staff training - ongoing
- MARC record loads and batch record deletion projects including load table creation and editing- ongoing
- Widgets for Moodle (embeddable on any webpage) ongoing
- Ask a Librarian
- Catalog and Database Search Widgets
- Research Guides
- New Books
Completed Projects
- Automatic HTML page creation of bib items for staff use (uses Python and III Create Lists queries) - Winter 2013
- Display Check Out Report (Outputs the items on display that are checked out using Python and III Create Lists queries) - Winter 2013
- Open URL Resolver with 360Link - November 2012
- LibGuide Redesign with Jen Ferro - Fall 2012
- Google Scholar Library Links - Summer 2012
- Bursar Out processing and database imports using Python - Summer 2012
- Find It! (Stack mapping in the catalog - project with student intern) - Spring 2012
- Intergrated Lane Library and Summit Catalog - Winter 2012
- Cite This in the Catalog using WorldCat Search API - Winter 2012
- Library Student Survey (committee) - Fall 2011
- EBSCO's Integrated Search - Fall 2011
- Mobile Library Catalog - Summer 2011
- Google Books in the Catalog using Google API - June 2011
- QR Codes in the Catalog - June 2011
- Instruction Request Database (Access database) - Summer 2010
- Database of Databases (Access database for electronic resource tracking) - Summer 2010
- Frequently Asked Question Database (Joomla) - Winter 2010
- Library presence in Lane's Student Portal - Winter 2010
- Lane Library Mobile - Spring 2010
- "OneSearch" Serials Solutions 360Search - Winter 2009 - Spring 2011
- Website survey - Winter 2009
- Website additions - Winter 2009
- RSS - Feedburner
- Google Analytics
- AddThis
- LibGuides - Fall 2008
- Website redesign and usability - 2008
- Text Messaging from the catalog (code from University of Oregon Libraries) - Spring 2008
- Library catalog redesign - Summer 2007
Published User Guides
Committees and Groups
- Library Ereader Pilot Project Team Fall 2012 - present
- Library Employee Web Team (Drupal Design) Fall 2011 - present
- Campus: Web Infrastructure Leadership Team 2010 - 2011
- Orbis Cascade Alliance Shared ILS Task Force 2010
- Library Web Group 2008 - present
- Campus: Portal Content Committee (Luminis) 2009 - 2010
- Campus: Student Technology Fee Committee 2005 - 2009
- Campus: Technology Advising and Consulting Team (TACT) 2003 - 2005
Education
- Geographic Information Science and Technology Pathway Certificate (2012), Lane Community College, Eugene OR
- BA Human Resource Management (2004), George Fox University, Newberg OR
- AA Computer Network Operations (1999), Lane Community College, Eugene OR
