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LIRNnotes

  1. An updated Online Guide to Using LIRN was included in the 3.4 release. lirn.net/guide/
  2. LIRN services are now back live in gateway version 3.4. Thanks for your patieince. Please let us know if you experience any problems.
  3. Moving into the final phases of testing 3.4. If no problems turn up, we should be live in a few hours.
  4. We are moving along with the upgrade to gateway 3.4. Still have some testing to do tomorrow before releasing it for general use.
  5. We will be doing a database backup this morning, then moving on to the upgrade to gateway 3.4.
  6. The work on our network is nearly complete. Operating system updates are next, then the ugrade to gateway 3.4.
  7. Work is continuing on the network reconfiguration. We will need to do some network testing before moving on to gateway 3.4.
  8. LIRN services will be offline beginning at 9 a.m. EDT while we do some network reconfiguration.
  9. Enjoy the holiday weekend. We will post updates here on our progress, starting with some network work at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
  10. All users will also be switched to the Gale common menu this weekend as the next step in the sub-accounts project.
  11. In addition to gateway 3.4, we will be converting everyone to the new ProQuest interface this weekend.
  12. We're finishing preparations for the roll out of gateway 3.4 this weekend. Services will be unavailable at times Saturday through Monday.
  13. A new LIRN newsletter was sent out today to our member contacts. Contact the office if you would like to be added to the list.
  14. InfoTrac maintenance from 2-6 am EDT Saturday May 12th. Some product downtime may occur during this window.
  15. ProQuest maintenance 10 pm Saturday 5/5 through 10 am Sunday 5/6 EDT. Both legacy and new platforms will be unavailable.
  16. Work at the datacenter is complete.
  17. The new firewall has arrived and our engineer is configuring and testing it. There will be a brief outage later today to bring it online.
  18. We are back up.
  19. Still working on bringning the network and services back up.
  20. It's taking a little longer to reconfigure the network than the original estimate. We should be back up in the next couple of hours.