Penn State University Libraries and Penn State’s Office of the Vice Provost for Information Technology recently agreed to transfer the development team from Services and Solutions (SaS) and their existing roles this fall to the University Libraries. SaS employees worked alongside Libraries Technology staff previously under the former department name Digital Library Technologies, and this realignment will streamline support of this work, including, but not limited to, information domain and data repository services and the integration of library-specific applications.

As part of this alignment of services, nine Penn State employees and one currently vacant position will move from SaS to the Libraries. Dan Coughlin, director of the team, will report directly to Karen Estlund, University Libraries associate dean for Technology and Digital Strategies.

The SaS team provides support for ScholarSphere, ArchiveSphere, the eTD systems, Activity Insight including development and client support, plus operational expertise to run these systems and databases. A primary goal as part of this move is to align the services provided by the University Libraries with the information domain experts and library-specific and complementary systems.

Estlund will discuss the transition in more detail at an upcoming Libraries Tech Forum.

The entire news article about the transition is available on Penn State News.