UIowa Libraries Web

University Libraries Web History
A Chronology of Important Events

Generations of UIowa Libraries Web Home Page First Generation (May 10, 1996 - January 19, 1999) Second Generation (January 19, 1999 - May 20, 2000) Third Generation (May 20, 2000 - May 2006) Fourth Generation (May 2006- present) Fourth.5 - coming soon!

Generations of Intranet Home Page First Generation (February 21, 2001 - September 7, 2004)

The Flood of 2008
June 12-13: All servers moved out of the library
First week of July: Servers moved back into the library

May 19, 2008
Verde moves into production.

January 11, 2008
The new Smart Search is live

August 28, 2007
The new Smart Search (Primo) moved intro production.

August 2007
CONTENTdm upgrade to 4.2 and IDL site redesign

August 1, 2007
MetaLib 4.0 released.

July 6, 2007
NetForms turned off.

March 2, 2007
DigiTool was pronounced dead on March 2nd, 2007, at 8:42pm. The cause of death was an apparent lack of interest. E-cards and e-flowers can be sent to webmaster@www.lib.uiowa.edu. DigiTool is survived by family members ALEPH, SFX, Verde, MetaLib, and Primo.

February 2007
ILLiad 7.2 released. New web pages put into production on March 12, 2007

January 4, 2007
CONTENTdm license raised to unlimited

July/August 2006
ILLiad moved into production

July 16, 2006
InfoHawk cutover to ALEPH v. 18

May 31, 2006
New web site!

May 1, 2006
DigiTool launched as production service

April 5, 2006
CONTENTdm license raised to 50,000 limit

October 6, 2005
MyLibrary cutover to MetaLib v. 3

May 9, 2005
Staffweb service shut down

April 4, 2005
Gateway cutover to MS SQL

March 18, 2005
InfoLink cutover to new version (SFX v. 3)

May 19, 2004
DigiTool 2.4 server available for development

November 5, 2003
My Library moves into production, using MetaLib v. 2.14.

August 4, 2003
Proxy service switches to Hawk ID enterprise authentication.

June 19, 2003
InfoLink cutover to new version (SFX v. 2.0)

March 20, 2003
Streaming audio and video moved to ITS-hosted Helix server

February 2, 2003
LiveReference service comes online

November 21, 2002
Proxy server swtiched to SSL for secure login

August, 2002
Production and development servers moved to Active Directory authentication

April, 2002
Total hits begin to exceed 10,000,000 per month

March 21, 2002
InfoLink cutover to new version (SFX v. 1.3)

March 8, 2002
Extranet server goes live

January 30, 2002
Gateway cutover to Windows 2000 / Access 2000

January 18, 2002
Rita Benton Music Library Streaming Audio Reserves go live

January 9, 2002
InfoLink goes live (SFX v. 1.2)

March 13, 2001
Arapawa brought online; SHOUT, Tango, Gateway, and Netforms move to arapawa

February 21, 2001
Staff intranet goes live

February 16, 2001
SDRC's Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century is announced

January 16, 2001
New proxy and PURL servers go live

November 20, 2000
First three Electronic Theses and Dissertations go live

October 22, 2000
TWIST server on new Apple Mac G4 goes live

August 4, 2000
InfoHawk goes live

May 26, 1999
LWIS production servers cutover to WinNT

January 19, 1999
Second LWIS graphical home page comes online

January 19, 1999
Gateway to the Internet migrated to searchable database as Gateway to Online Resources

October, 1998
First LWIS WinNT servers come online

April 15, 1998
SDRC web server comes online

March 9, 1998
CIC VEL server comes online

March, 1998
Proxy/PURL servers come online to provide off-campus access to IP-restricted databases

March, 1998
Bailiwick research web server comes online

January, 1998
MOO server comes online

November, 1996
STAFFWEB server comes online

September, 1996
TWIST course web server comes online

July 20, 1996
Anita Lowry, founding Head of the Information Arcade and the person who initially proposed LWIS as a Libraries resource, died

May 10, 1996
First LWIS graphical home page comes online

May 10, 1996
First Gateway to the Internet reorganization comes online

May 7, 1996
Gopher server officially stopped

March 11, 1996
Paul Soderdahl named Team Leader for LWIS and Multimedia

January 3, 1996
First Campus Web Clinic, jointly sponsored by University Libraries and ITS

October, 1995
Total hits begin to exceed 100,000 per month

September 25, 1995
Revised LWIS Organizational Structure as currently implemented

June 28, 1995
Name of web server migrated from www.arcade.uiowa.edu to www.lib.uiowa.edu

April 21, 1995
LWIS WWW server comes online

March 23, 1995
LWIS proposed

December 20, 1994
First University of Iowa Campus Webmasters Meeting

December 16, 1994
University of Iowa central server comes online with links to 13 web or gopher servers on campus, four of which are for the University Libraries (Information Arcade (web and gopher), Hardin Library, and Engineering Library)

October, 1994
Total hits begin to exceed 10,000 per month

May, 1994
University Libraries Gateway to the Internet comes online as a gopher server

May, 1994
Information Arcade WWW server comes online

November 17, 1993
Information Arcade WWW server first proposed

September 9, 1993
University Libraries gopher approved by Executive Council