DALNET Details Newsletter

Board Approves $500 Delivery Subsidies through 2014

The DALNET Board has approved the recommendation of the DALNET Delivery Cost Allocation Task Force to award a $500 grant annually to each DALNET member institution using the statewide RIDES delivery system, if that institution meets qualifying criteria. The Boards continues to support a subsidy for interlibrary loan deliveries, as a member benefit, to encourage reciprocal borrowing and sharing of resources. The subsidy and related policies will be reviewed again for 2015.

Virtual Summer Fun!

This summer DALNET’s physical servers will all be moved to a virtual environment. Among other work, the move for Horizon and HIP servers to virtual machines is being planned for early July 2013. From a user standpoint the work will be similar to a system upgrade, with the system unavailable on the day of the move. After the virtualization project is complete future upgrades should be quicker and occur primarily in the background. The work will create a new virtualized infrastructure for DALNET systems, will reduce annual operating costs for the consortium, and will lay a more up-to-date and flexible foundation for the future.

Got Meeting Space?

The DALNET office is beginning to plan the DALNET Annual Meeting to be held in August. The day's activities are to include a morning Educational Forum open to the public, lunch, an afternoon member meeting, and breakout sessions. Let the office know if your library is interested in hosting the event at your site.

DALNET member libraries are beginning to "go live" with Enterprise, including Concordia University Ann Arbor and Detroit Medical Center. More libraries are planning to make the switch in the summer months.

May 2013