Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:16:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@temple.edu>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] LIBRARY: WEBSITES: When the Power or Server Goes Down:
What is Your Remote Backup?
This is a brief post to provide an idea for those organizations with
public information pages important to their users, including libraries.
Temple University's main library experienced a power failure of ten hours
duration in the middle of the final exam period. Due to the forethought
of an esteemed colleague, Barbara Wright, who on a different university
server, the Blackboard server, has a public organization page, there was a
hyperlinked copy of the Database list provided to Temple University
Libraries to their students, staff and faculty for their literature
searching needs. The library was able to use the content of this page to
use on an emergency web page to provide access to these expensive tools
during the crisis. I did not initially send my post about the Barbara
Wright Blackboard site to the live list but archived the message on the
Net-Gold archives. Those interested in how a hyperlinked Word document
can be used on a remote server to provide access to databases during a
local internet outage may want to have a look at this archived post.
One great thing about this approach is that it is not a highly technical
solution, so that those with limited web design skills could relatively
easily learn how to create such a backup.
TEMPLE: LIBRARIES: RESOURCES: Barbara Wright: Blackboard Resources Page
On Net-Gold Google Groups
<http://snipurl.com/eorw>
A Direct Link to the Main Page of Barbara Wright's Blackboard Page
<https://tuportal.temple.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?
tab=community&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_7153_1>
A shorter URL for the above link:
I suspect Barbara, having gone through this difficult Tuesday at Paley,
will also look now for remote storage on the web or in email for this
document for future crises, some of which may be university rather than
library wide, should they occur. Actually, the library is in a different
building than our circulation, reserve and interlibrary loan departments,
and the second building had power during this outage and some of us
migrated over there with power adaptors and laptops that the library owned
to do our online work as best we could without the library servers. I
hope that this post will provide ideas for those who have not dealt with
public relations issues involving important internet content in a
situation of local internet outages. The word generator may be one to
kick around a bit as well in these discussions. In our case the main
circuit breaker failed and that would have been difficult to work around,
I suspect.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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