ITTS Update

Matt has counted up some statistics for some of the services ITTS provides, and there's more of pretty much everything than we would have thought. Since all new blogs and wikis get parked on Dreamhost, those sites have come online just within the last five months.

Not all of these installations are fully live yet (some have just been requested and are being configured by the owning unit), but it gives some sense of the direction in which ALA is moving. This also doesn't count blogs and wikis hosted offsite, since we have no way of tracking those.

Staff, please don't forget to link your sites from the Read Write Connect wiki so that members can find them. If you need help figuring out how to do this, please us know.

Wikis
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On wikis.ala.org: 74
On Dreamhost: 27
Total wikis: 101

Blogs
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On blogs.ala.org: 39
On Dreamhost: 19
Total blogs: 58

Lists on Sympa: 926

Courses on Moodle: 30

Online Communities by category
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ALA General: 57
Divisions: 197
Round Tables: 20

Total Communities: 274

ITTS staff have spent the last couple of months switching out 64 laptops and 132 desktops throughout the Chicago office. The lease on these machines is up, so we are now in the process of cleaning the hard drives and sending them back.

We've also installed flat-screen monitors for everyone, so we hope you're making good use of the new-found space on your desk. If you received a new computer during this round and encounter any problems with it, please contact us or submit a Track-It help request.

The lease on about one-third of our desktop PCs and laptops will expire in June. We are working on a plan to roll out this new equipment. We are also planning a couple of days when people who use laptops will have a hands-on opportunity to test and select the model of laptop they would like to have.

Processing of inbound email is caught up. More than 53,000 email messages were processed in the last 24 hours. Please let us know if you experience any email slowness going forward.