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Generations of UIowa Libraries Web Home Page<\/b><\/p>\n
First Generation<\/a> (May 10, 1996 – January 19, 1999) Generations of Intranet Home Page<\/b><\/p>\n First Generation<\/a> (February 21, 2001 – September 7, 2004) July 17, 2019<\/strong> July 15, 2019<\/strong> March 2019<\/strong> August 2018<\/strong> June 18, 2018<\/strong> January 9, 2018<\/strong> August 2017<\/strong> July 2016<\/strong> April 29, 2016<\/strong> September 29, 2015<\/strong> June 1, 2015<\/strong> May 22, 2015<\/strong> December 31, 2014<\/strong> December 15, 2014<\/strong> December 3, 2014<\/strong> November 11, 2014<\/strong> November 11, 2014<\/strong> November 2013<\/strong> March 18, 2014<\/strong> March 18, 2014<\/strong> February 4, 2014<\/strong> January 31, 2013<\/strong> January 8, 2013<\/strong> October 1, 2012<\/strong> July 15, 2012<\/strong> May 15, 2012<\/strong> January 25, 2012<\/strong> January 2012<\/strong> January 2012<\/strong> January 2012<\/strong> December 2011 October 31, 2011<\/strong> October 2011<\/strong> September 2011<\/strong> August 2011 July 2011<\/strong> June 8, 2011<\/strong> May 5, 2011<\/strong> April 2011<\/strong> January 2011 October 2010<\/strong> September 2010<\/strong> 88,688 downloads in the past year<\/p>\n July 2010<\/strong> June 2010<\/strong> May 3, 2010<\/strong> March 27, 2010<\/strong> Spring 2010<\/strong> Early 2010<\/strong> January 2010<\/strong> October 2009<\/strong> September 2009<\/strong> August 12, 2009<\/strong> August 3, 2009<\/strong> July 18, 2009<\/strong> June 16, 2009<\/strong> May 26, 2009<\/strong> April 17, 2009<\/strong> February 11, 2009<\/strong> October 27, 2008<\/strong> October 21, 2008<\/strong>
\nSecond Generation<\/a> (January 19, 1999 – May 20, 2000)
\nThird Generation<\/a> (May 20, 2000 – May 2006)
\nFourth Generation<\/a> (May 2006- August 2008) – screenshot from Wayback machine
\nFourth.5<\/a> – August 2008 – May 2011
\nFifth Generation<\/a> (May 2011 – January 2012)
\nFifth.5 (January 2013 – present)
\n– moved into WordPress.<\/p>\n
\nThird(?) Generation<\/a> (2006-February 2009)
\nHAL \/ Sharepoint 2007 – (early 2009+)<\/p>\n
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\nFirst deposit into Esploro (Soderdahl)<\/p>\n
\nEsploro goes live<\/p>\n
\nLibro goes live – Alexa skill and app to search InfoHawk+ with voice commands<\/p>\n
\nAeon goes live<\/p>\n
\nPrimo New UI goes live<\/p>\n
\nIRO reaches 10,000,000 uses<\/p>\n
\nTRAC Resource Sharing in Alma goes live – Institutions include; UIowa, ISU, UNI, Drake, Wartburg, Hawkeye CC, St. Ambrose, and Grand View<\/p>\n
\nAlma goes live<\/p>\n
\nFirst deposit to DPN<\/p>\n
\nMail and calendar migrated to Office365<\/p>\n
\nDigital Studio for Public Arts & Humanities merges with Digital Research & Publishing to become the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio<\/p>\n
\nIRO reaches 5,000,000 downloads<\/p>\n
\nRefWorks support ended<\/p>\n
\nDIY History v.3 goes live<\/p>\n
\nEx Libris license for Alma signed; discount extends to all Iowa colleges and universities, public and private<\/p>\n
\nDIY History reaches 50,000 pages transcribed<\/p>\n
\nIRO reaches 4,000,000 downloads<\/p>\n
\nIowa Digital Library video streaming migrated to Kaltura CDN<\/p>\n
\nExplorer\u2019s Legacy website launched (related Gallery grand opening exhibit, also called Explorer\u2019s Legacy, held on Jan. 31, 2016)<\/p>\n
\nDIY History reaches 40,000 pages transcribed<\/p>\n
\nCampus-wide EndNote license available<\/p>\n
\nDIY History reaches 30,000 pages transcribed<\/p>\n
\nwww.lib moved to WordPress<\/p>\n
\nSoft 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\u2019s Lives<\/p>\n
\nIRO reaches 1,000,000 downloads<\/p>\n
\nGateway retired<\/p>\n
\nThe Hawkeye: Over 100 years of Hawkeye yearbooks made available online<\/p>\n
\nTim Barrett\u2019s Paper Through Time published<\/p>\n
\nDigital Library Services renamed to Digital Research & Publishing<\/p>\n
\nCIC UBorrow goes online, built on Relais D2D<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The following sites were moved to ITS servers:<\/p>\n\n
\nThe Daily Iowan: Over 100 years of Daily Iowan archives launch today<\/em><\/a>
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\nWilliam Davies\u2019 Madurese Storytellers published<\/p>\n
\nIDEAL 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<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Primo Central released.
\nWordPress (blog.lib.uiowa.edu) moved to ITS servers.<\/p>\n
\nEZProxy moved to ITS servers.<\/p>\n
\nCivil War Diaries crowdsourcing project gets redditted and crashes<\/a>. Says one Redditor: Reddit the giant \/ Wants to pet the small website \/ Squishes it instead<\/p>\n
\nCivil War Diaries Transcription Project (later renamed DIY History) announced<\/p>\n
\nCONTENTdm upgraded to version 5.4.\u00a0 Moved from Windows to a Linux environment on a new server at CSS (Engineering).<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Gateway-generated Resources by Subject pages retires.\u00a0 Content transferred to LibGuides.<\/p>\n
\nSFX upgraded to 4.0; servers moved to Engineering (CSS)<\/p>\n
\nIRO reaches 100,000 uses. Other IRO milestones: 3,630 papers to date;<\/p>\n
\nILLiad now hosted by OCLC
\nSmart Search mobile goes live<\/p>\n
\nPrimo3
\nmoved into production<\/p>\n
\nIowa Heritage moved to http:\/\/iowaheritage.org\/<\/p>\n
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\nThe 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
\ntaken from us (we think by a racoon landing in a transformer but we aren’t sure) on Saturday, March 27. She will be missed.<\/p>\n
\nPrimo 3 (OPAC via Primo) \u00a0installed on new servers maintained at Engineering.<\/p>\n
\nUI Libraries
\nmobile beta released<\/p>\n
\nAleph v.20
\n; New InfoHawk template<\/p>\n
\nArchon moves into production<\/p>\n
\nMetaLib link removed from the Libraries’ web pages.
\nCONTENTdm4.3 & Wiki servers shut down.<\/p>\n
\nILLiad 7.4 upgrade<\/p>\n
\nCONTENTdm 5.1 upgrade<\/p>\n
\nBiographical Dictionary of Iowa<\/a><\/em> debuts at the Iowa City Book Festival
\nThe Internet Scout<\/a> said the BDI “is a website that just feels welcoming”<\/p>\n
\nMetaLib 4.3 upgrade<\/p>\n
\nEnabled bX Recommendations + Simplified Template<\/p>\n
\nCONTENTdm42 server shutdown. Unplugged on May 18, 2009<\/p>\n
\nNew IDL template debuts<\/a> just in time for Lincoln’s Birthday<\/p>\n
\nVerde put on ice.<\/p>\n
\nIowa Research Online<\/a>: The University of Iowa’s Institutional Repository brought online<\/p>\n
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