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Hamilton College Library
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

(315) 859-4479
(315) 859-4578 (fax)

Library Systems Department

Systems Status

Overview

The Library Systems Department is responsible for maintaining the computer systems used by both library staff and library patrons. We work with the library staff to create better use of computing technologies in their work and in meeting the needs of our patrons.

The systems staff maintain computer hardware and software for 34 public computers, 49 staff computers and nine networked printers. We also maintain the hardware and software for the library's online catalog (ALEX) and our digital collections, and we manage the Library's Web pages.

Systems staff are on duty Monday through Friday 8:00AM - 4:30PM. We can be reached at 859-4487 or 859-4493. If we are not available, please leave a brief message and a contact phone number.

Managed Systems

  • ALEX, the online catalog -- ALEX is the local instance of Endeavor Information Systems' Voyager integrated library system. It is hosted on a Sun Fire 880 server running the Solaris operating system.
  • EZProxy - EZProxy is software that gives Hamilton College ID holders permission to use any of the library's user-restricted databases from off campus locations around the world. EZProxy is hosted on a Windows 2003 server.
  • Hamilton College Library Digital Collections -- Locally-developed by the systems staff to manage objects digitized from the Library's Special Collections, these collections are hosted on a Windows 2003 server and delivered with PHP scripts. The digital objects are managed by Fedora and any content that is tagged in TEI is indexed for searching purposes in eXist.

Staff

Ken Herold, Director of Library Information Systems
E-mail: kherold@hamilton.edu
Telephone: (315) 859-4487
Duties:

Contact Ken if you have questions or problems regarding user IDs and passwords, connecting to the Internet, connecting to your networked storage space, networked printers, remote databases, ALEX, Databases, or E-Journals. Ken manages all aspects of the Library's four servers, including installing and patching server software, configuring the online catalog, managing the proxy server, virus protection, security and backups. He manages the networked printer queues, writes and maintains batch/script files that facilitate workflow and generates custom reports from Oracle. He also configured and maintains the library's channel on the campus portal, myHamilton.

Peter MacDonald, Library Information Systems Specialist
E-mail: pmacdona@hamilton.edu
Telephone: (315) 859-4493
Duties:

Contact Peter for problems with the operation of staff or public desktop computers (such as keyboard, mouse, local printers and scanners, software, e-mail, virus protection, personal file backups). Peter configures the customized interface to ALEX, manages the Library Web pages, the Digital Collections Web site and its engine, and generates statistics on usage of our E-Reserves and Web pages.

(Reviewed: Nov 14, 2006)