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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">OSLIS is an information literacy website,
<a href="http://www.oslis.org"><span style="color:windowtext">www.oslis.org</span></a>, and the portal for K12 Oregon students and educators to access the statewide subscription databases. If your library does
<i>not</i> promote OSLIS with patrons, feel free to disregard this email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">As of about mid-November, OSLIS was set up to redirect to OSLIS Lite if the original OSLIS went down. (See the email below for a refresher.) Unfortunately, the failover feature did not consistently
work, and lately when OSLIS was down, some users were not automatically redirected to OSLIS Lite. That is unacceptable, so today we asked the vendor to take down OSLIS and point all OSLIS URLs to OSLIS Lite.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">You’ll recall that OSLIS Lite is a separate webpage with links to the Gale databases,
<i>LearningExpress Library</i>, and the three versions of Citation Maker. (See the attached PDF for a screenshot of what it looks like.) When you click on Gale
<i>PowerSearch</i>, you will get a menu of all of the Gale databases available via the statewide contract. What OSLIS Lite does
<i>not</i> offer is differentiated content (different versions for elementary and secondary students and educators), the information literacy lessons (Learn to Research section of OSLIS), the worksheets for Citation Maker, the OSLIST archive, and the My Stuff
folder. Why not? Because all of those features or sections are tied to the code in OSLIS that is having problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Speaking of OSLIS code, two separate vendors have examined it and cannot identify what is causing the site to have sporadic downtime. Therefore, we have decided to rebuild OSLIS from scratch. That process will minimally take through April and possibly through
the rest of this school year. In the meantime, <i>OSLIS Lite will remain available, and you should be directed to it regardless of which OSLIS URL/s you have bookmarked</i>. Naturally, I will let you know when we are ready to go live with the rebuilt OSLIS.
(Our goal is not to redesign OSLIS; it is simply to build a stable version of the site.)
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OSLIS Lite is a basic HTML page and is very stable. However, should you experience any access problems, please report them. Include the date and time that the problem occurred , the text of any error messages, screenshots if possible, and anything else that
you think would help us identify or replicate the problem.<br>
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If you have questions, please ask. <br>
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Many thanks,<br>
Jen </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">OSLIS ||
<a href="www.oslis.org"><span style="color:blue">www.oslis.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to research. Research to learn.©<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jennifer Maurer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> libs-or List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] OSLIS Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If your library does
<i>not</i> promote OSLIS with patrons, feel free to disregard this email. (OSLIS is an information literacy website,
<a href="http://www.oslis.org"><span style="color:windowtext">www.oslis.org</span></a>, and the portal for K12 Oregon students and educators to access the statewide subscription databases.)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">As you may know, the Technology Development Consultant at the State Library and I created OSLIS Lite because there are problems with the original OSLIS that causes it to randomly lock up or not
be accessible. The vendor we recently contracted with made several updates to the original OSLIS and then tested the updates using an artificial load. In other words, they created a situation that replicates OSLIS being accessed by multiple simultaneous users.
With that testing, they cannot get OSLIS to fail. That means we need to put the original OSLIS back up to see if the issues have truly been resolved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">In order to minimize downtime, the vendor proposed that they put OSLIS Lite on a second server that will
<i>automatically become active</i> should the original OSLIS site have problems. The vendor has also configured the system to provide additional logging to gather system information for them to analyze should the original OSLIS site have problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">I understand that the solution is not ideal because potentially you could be teaching one version of OSLIS and then get the other. However, we don’t have a lot of choices. Someone suggested that
we keep OSLIS Lite up until summer and then do any repair work and testing. That’s not ideal for at least two reasons. One, what if the original OSLIS is truly fixed? If it is, we want it back up as soon as possible. Two, what if OSLIS isn’t fixed and the
work to fix it takes longer than two and a half months? Then we run out of summer and are in the same boat we are in now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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So, we have opted to allow the vendor to reactivate the original OSLIS and to direct traffic to OSLIS Lite if the original OSLIS has problems. This is scheduled to happen late in the evening this Friday, November 18<sup>th</sup>.
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If you encounter any problems with the original OSLIS (when it’s back up) or OSLIS Lite, please let me know. The more specific you can be, the better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Thanks again for your patience.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">OSLIS ||
<a href="www.oslis.org">www.oslis.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to Research. Research to Learn.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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