By Barbara Coopey

On January 9, 2013 Penn State ILLiad will migrate to a hosted server located at OCLC.  ILLiad will be down at noon on January 8, 2013 to halt transaction activity in order to back up the database in preparation for the migration. To reduce the size of the database for the migration, 689,415 ILLiad transactions from 2002 through 2007 were purged in December 2012.

Moving to a hosted server means that ILLiad will no longer be housed and supported locally in the Libraries. DLT has housed and maintained ILLiad since 2002. With the transition to an OCLC ILLiad server hosting service, all aspects of ILLiad will be moved from DLT to OCLC.

OCLC offers a restricted access and secure facility with 24-hour monitoring of the ILLiad system. OCLC will be maintaining the necessary hardware and software components, back-ups, and system and software upgrades for the Penn State ILLiad. This frees DLT and I-Tech staff from being responsible for supporting ILLiad hardware and software components and upgrades.

Penn State users should not notice any changes with the migration of services to OCLC. A new Penn State ILLiad was built on an OCLC server that will house all of our ILLiad web pages and files and the transaction database. The Penn State “thumbprint” authentication will continue to be used with the new hosted service. ILLiad was developed by Atlas Systems and is distributed through OCLC. More information (http://www.oclc.org/illiad/hosted/default.htm) about ILLiad hosted service at OCLC.