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- August 2008) – screenshot from Wayback machine
Fourth.5 – August 2008 – May 2011
Fifth Generation (May 2011 – January 2012)
Fifth.5 (January 2013 – present)
– moved into WordPress.
Generations of Intranet Home Page
First Generation (February 21, 2001 – September 7, 2004)
Third(?) Generation (2006-February 2009)
HAL / Sharepoint 2007 – (early 2009+)
July 17, 2019
First deposit into Esploro (Soderdahl)
July 15, 2019
Esploro goes live
March 2019
Libro goes live – Alexa skill and app to search InfoHawk+ with voice commands
August 2018
Aeon goes live
June 18, 2018
Primo New UI goes live
January 9, 2018
IRO reaches 10,000,000 uses
August 2017
TRAC Resource Sharing in Alma goes live – Institutions include; UIowa, ISU, UNI, Drake, Wartburg, Hawkeye CC, St. Ambrose, and Grand View
July 2016
Alma goes live
April 29, 2016
First deposit to DPN
September 29, 2015
Mail and calendar migrated to Office365
June 1, 2015
Digital Studio for Public Arts & Humanities merges with Digital Research & Publishing to become the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio
May 22, 2015
IRO reaches 5,000,000 downloads
December 31, 2014
RefWorks support ended
December 15, 2014
DIY History v.3 goes live
December 3, 2014
Ex Libris license for Alma signed; discount extends to all Iowa colleges and universities, public and private
November 11, 2014
DIY History reaches 50,000 pages transcribed
November 11, 2014
IRO reaches 4,000,000 downloads
November 2013
Iowa Digital Library video streaming migrated to Kaltura CDN
March 18, 2014
Explorer’s Legacy website launched (related Gallery grand opening exhibit, also called Explorer’s Legacy, held on Jan. 31, 2016)
March 18, 2014
DIY History reaches 40,000 pages transcribed
February 4, 2014
Campus-wide EndNote license available
January 31, 2013
DIY History reaches 30,000 pages transcribed
January 8, 2013
www.lib moved to WordPress
October 1, 2012
Soft launch of DIY History (colloquially DIY History v. 2, replacing the first version known as the Civil War Diaries Transcription Project); hard launch on Oct. 9, 2012, announced three additional collections: Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks, Nile Kinnick, and Iowa Women’s Lives
July 15, 2012
IRO reaches 1,000,000 downloads
May 15, 2012
Gateway retired
January 25, 2012
The Hawkeye: Over 100 years of Hawkeye yearbooks made available online
January 2012
Tim Barrett’s Paper Through Time published
January 2012
Digital Library Services renamed to Digital Research & Publishing
January 2012
CIC UBorrow goes online, built on Relais D2D
December 2011
The following sites were moved to ITS servers:
- libres.lib.uiowa.edu
- purl.lib.uiowa.edu
- www.lib.uiowa.edu
- hosted.lib.uiowa.edu
- madurese.lib.uiowa.edu
- wallace.lib.uiowa.edu
- mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu
- paper.lib.uiowa.edu
- digital.lib.uiowa.edu/uipress
- atlas.lib.uiowa.edu
- bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu
October 31, 2011
The Daily Iowan: Over 100 years of Daily Iowan archives launch today
October 2011
William Davies’ Madurese Storytellers published
September 2011
IDEAL Co-Directors Matt Gilchrist and Tom Keegan pilot a new curriculum (later to be named Archives Alive!) to incorporate digital humanities in the undergraduate classroom using materials from Iowa Digital Library collections
August 2011
Primo Central released.
WordPress (blog.lib.uiowa.edu) moved to ITS servers.
July 2011
EZProxy moved to ITS servers.
June 8, 2011
Civil War Diaries crowdsourcing project gets redditted and crashes. Says one Redditor: Reddit the giant / Wants to pet the small website / Squishes it instead
May 5, 2011
Civil War Diaries Transcription Project (later renamed DIY History) announced
April 2011
CONTENTdm upgraded to version 5.4. Moved from Windows to a Linux environment on a new server at CSS (Engineering).
January 2011
The Gateway-generated Resources by Subject pages retires. Content transferred to LibGuides.
October 2010
SFX upgraded to 4.0; servers moved to Engineering (CSS)
September 2010
IRO reaches 100,000 uses. Other IRO milestones: 3,630 papers to date;
88,688 downloads in the past year
July 2010
ILLiad now hosted by OCLC
Smart Search mobile goes live
June 2010
Primo3
moved into production
May 3, 2010
Iowa Heritage moved to http://iowaheritage.org/
March 27, 2010
The Mac server, survivor of the Flood of 2008 (hence the paddle and life jacket), home of FileMaker/Tango (Feminae), NetForms, and much, much more was
taken from us (we think by a racoon landing in a transformer but we aren’t sure) on Saturday, March 27. She will be missed.
Spring 2010
Primo 3 (OPAC via Primo) installed on new servers maintained at Engineering.
Early 2010
UI Libraries
mobile beta released
January 2010
Aleph v.20
; New InfoHawk template
October 2009
Archon moves into production
September 2009
MetaLib link removed from the Libraries’ web pages.
CONTENTdm4.3 & Wiki servers shut down.
August 12, 2009
ILLiad 7.4 upgrade
August 3, 2009
CONTENTdm 5.1 upgrade
July 18, 2009
Biographical Dictionary of Iowa debuts at the Iowa City Book Festival
The Internet Scout said the BDI “is a website that just feels welcoming”
June 16, 2009
MetaLib 4.3 upgrade
May 26, 2009
Enabled bX Recommendations + Simplified Template
April 17, 2009
CONTENTdm42 server shutdown. Unplugged on May 18, 2009
February 11, 2009
New IDL template debuts just in time for Lincoln’s Birthday
October 27, 2008
Verde put on ice.
October 21, 2008
Iowa Research Online: The University of Iowa’s Institutional Repository brought online
July 11, 2008
CONTENTdm upgrade to 4.3
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 27, 2008
First LibGuides developed
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 lib-webmaster@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 HawkID 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 1993 to May 1996
The original Gopher menu.
September 9, 1993
University Libraries Gopher approved by Executive Council