2025-10-03 LIT Retreat Meeting notes

2025-10-03 LIT Retreat Meeting notes

 Date

Oct 3, 2025

 Participants

  • @Margaret Mellinger

  • @Beth Shields

Details

Supplies for the meeting

  • Beth will bring some candy

  • Margaret will bring paper and pens for the icebreaker activity

 Goals

  • Set project priorities for the upcoming year

  • Collaborate on a set of communication expectations

  • Spend time together as a team

 Whiteboard

 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

10 - 10:30

Gathering, Icebreaker

4 Quadrant Activity

 

  • What do you bring to the LIT team?

  • What do we need to know about you when you are under stress?

  • What is the greatest challenge for this group?

  • What is something you’d like to accomplish in the year ahead?

10:30 - 11:45

Review of current projects and their statuses

Beth and all

Review

  • Product owner

  • Developers

Questions

  • What are major challenges with this project or application

  • Do we still need this application?

  • What would it take to get the project to maintenance

  • Beaver Tracks - on old version of Rails. Margaret wrote to the campus map people to see if it could support campus tours. We’ll want to shut this down.

  • Blacklilght: Sunset

  • ONS: Wikibase migration

  • EZDeposit 2: Sunset

  • Kiosk Project: schedule a migration to Yodeck

  • OD2: Quarterly meeting will discuss what it takes to get to maintenance.

  • OD1: check with SCARC, keep DB?

  • OSULP API: Sunset

  • SA: Ticket Review has started

  • DCWizard: Hui will talk with Clara. Sunset

  • eTextbook: Sunset


Drupal sites

  • OSUL D7:

  • OSUP: Sunset D6

  • OCFRP: Need a solution for this - could be static site. Margaret wrote to Larry Landis - he still uses, as does Andrea Kuentz from Oregon Farm Bureau.

  • RPNW: Sunset
    Undocumented: Over to DX

  • Biblio: seek another option

  • ILLiad: moving to Rapido

  • C4L Planet and Wiki

  • SCARC: needs to migrate

  • Archon: needs to be migrated to A-Space

  • Omeka: needs upgrade

  • OHMS:

  • OJS: Margaret wrote to Adam Becker to see how their installation was going. Eventually we will sunset UO’s content off our instance.

  • Western Waters: Margaret write to Anna Neatrour at Utah.

  • EAD PDF Gen - check with SCARC (RW)

  • Oregon Spatial Data (Sunset)

11:45 - 12:45

Lunch

All

 

12:45 - 1:30

Revisiting internal communication outages and other critical issues

Margaret

Decide on the process we will use going forward this year

  1. We notice something is down

  2. We check with one other person

  3. If the thing is down, we @ people in the channel for that thing. With details or screenshots if possible.

  4. Devs/infra respond to let us know someone is working on it. Thread the conversation.

  5. First steps are to check logs and restart things, usually.

  6. Really helpful to have the person working on the issue to give an update in the thread.

  7. If updates indicate the problem won’t be a quick fix, the person who reported the issue should communicate with the rest of the library using judgement about which Slack channel to post to, or whether a banner is warranted.

Alerting and mobilizing the right people
Fixing the issue
Decide the threshold for putting up a banner, communicating with library or campus
Holding a blameless post mortem for major things.

1:30 - 1:40

Break

 

 

1:40- 2:30

Revisiting external communication

Beth

How do we communicate work that is mostly invisible?

  • Reinstate open hours

  • Presentation at Seminar Series

    • What to expect if you submit a feature request?

    • Demo of OD, OE, or SA

    • What is agile and do we really do it

  • Different levels of communication

    • Who is working on what (internally)

    • Stakeholders -what would be useful for them? Knowing how to request getting on the schedule and seeing the progress.

    • Library-wide

 

How would you like us to acknowledge our successes? We could use the appreciation channel to share some successes.

Communicating project status ideas so far

  • Github Project board for all projects

  • Gantt Chart for us

  • Wiki page

  • Status colors (red, green, yellow)

  • Monthly LAMP updates with more detail

Outcome: Decision for what we want to do for the next year

2:30 - 3:15

What are some trends you see coming at us that we need to track for the future

Margaret

  • Servers moving to CEOAS

    • Timing

    • Staff

  • Government shut down

  • Sharepoint and Google

  • AI

    • For coding - in our IDEs?

    • Cara is using it for Python scripts

    • Marc is using it with GitHub and CoPilot

    • Discuss hosting our own LLM

    • Machine learning for tagging or metadata

    • Notebook LM

    • Guidance for AI

    • Guidance for AI images on website (nix)

    • AI for accessibility

  • Accessibility

  • Open Access Open Science

  • Affordability

  • Workday (HR, Finance)

  • CentOS 9

  • Windows 2025

  • Citrix re-evaluation

  • Library Labubu

3:15 -3:30

Wrap up and next steps

Beth and Margaret

Questions concerns when we are reorg’d how will we communicate Can we keep our same LIT channels

AMD at LIT on Oct 9, 2025

Volunteer projects as a dept?

Set a day when people come into the office , lunch. (Beth set this up as first thurdsays)

3:30 - 4:00

OSU Creamery

 

 

 Action items

 Decisions

 Related materials