[Libs-Or] OSLIS Update

[Jennifer Maurer]

If your library does not promote OSLIS with patrons, feel free to disregard this email. (OSLIS is an information literacy website, www.oslis.org<http://www.oslis.org>, and the portal for K12 Oregon students and educators to access the statewide subscription databases.)
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.

In order to minimize downtime, the vendor proposed that they put OSLIS Lite on a second server that will automatically become active 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.

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.

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 18th.

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.

Thanks again for your patience.

Jen

Jennifer Maurer
School Library Consultant
Oregon State Library
250 Winter Street NE
Salem, OR 97301
503.378.5011
jennifer.maurer at state.or.us<mailto:jennifer.maurer at state.or.us>

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