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As the date of the Oberlin Board meetings and the ribbon cutting for CELA (Oct. 6) draw near, expect a flurry of activity to finish up things on the lower level of Mudd. Our Contemplation Garden is making progress and a huge bit of stone will be lowered by a crane soon. Security gate should go up on October 4. I do not know when the elevators will be secured with swipe access–soon, I hope. We will review all this at the October 5 Pan-L meeting–in Moffett. See you there!
Hi Everyone,
FYI…Lake Erie Electric will perform an upgrade of the wireless system in the Mudd Center tomorrow, Friday, 7/29/22, beginning at 7am. The work may continue into Saturday.
While not a complete overhaul, this work should result in better wireless coverage in the building. The work does not affect wired network connections and all is expected to be operational as usual on Monday when we return.
Heads up that there will be some clean up of the vegetation on the south side of the Mudd Center this summer. An arborist has identified at least one diseased tree (a pine, I think) that might need to come down. Otherwise, they will be trimming branches back from the building and clearing the underbrush. Facilities assures me that they are workig with an arborist on this. This is not related to SIP.
Regards,
Valerie
The plant boxes on the ramp are temporary. Landscaping needed a place to put them until the skylights are replaced on the sundeck later in July.
No plans for xeriscaping the ramp (yet!)
FYI– A level painting will begin this weekend so there may be some odor in the area next week.
Find a new way in/out DMS/AES for now… Air handler install & construction has begun! The main door near the elevator/wooden wall is closed.
Use the circulation back door or east technical services (AES) door or the writing center door (unlocked).
Hi folks,
Two members of the construction team just informed me that they will be doing some installation work in the academic commons and Azariah’s starting today. All of the security cameras are being replaced with newer models that provide more coverage and higher quality images. They are replacing two cameras in Azzy’s and four in the commons. They expect the work will take most of today and some of tomorrow, with work on different sections happening early next week. They also told me they’d be receptive to moving and/or being interrupted if they are in the way, as long as we ask and give them time to pause the process. Thank you for your patience.
Hi Everyone,
Sierra/OBIS will be unavailable from 4am-7am on Thursday, 4/28/22, while our vendor makes adjustments to our database server configuration.
This maintenance is intended to help with the intermittent slowness we’ve seen in recent weeks and requires the servers to be offline during the maintenance period.
Hi Everyone,
The Sierra update to version 5.4 is complete. A new JAR cache file will download on your first launch of Sierra after the update and may take a few minutes to complete.
Please report any issues to libsys@oberlin.edu.
Hi Everyone,
Our Sierra update will begin at 3am next Thursday, April 7, 2022. The maintenance window is expected to be about 2 hours, so we should be up and running when we start the day.
Sierra and OBIS will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
Regarding the ongoing slowness with the system, please continue to send me any incidents you encounter. Describe what you were trying to do, what happened, and grab the Origin ID. I plan to hold off until our upgrade to place another ticket because that upgrade will include a complete server reboot. If we continue to have issues after next Thursday, I will submit another support ticket with a request for escalation.
