[ibiblio-announce] Happy 2009 from ibiblio
Paul Jones
pjones at metalab.unc.edu
Fri Dec 26 10:00:12 EST 2008
I'm jumping in between Christmas and New Year's to thank you for your
contributions to ibiblio and for your support in the past year.
We've had a period a great growth over the past few years especially as
seen here:
2002 2006 2008
800 Collections 1600+ Collections 2500+ Collections
3 million ftp+www/day 15+ million 16+ million ftp+www/day
1 terabyte of data 8 terabytes of data 13 terabytes of data
1 large server 22 www/vhost servers 25 www/vhost servers
2 database servers 5 database servers 7 database servers
4 radio stations 6 radio stations 6 radio stations
In fact, the 2008 figures were taken at mid-year and we've grown since then!
ibiblio is lways eclectic as our newest contributors, The African
Elephant Experts Group http://www.african-elephant.net/ and Pachyderm -
the Journal of the African Elephant, African Rhino and Asia Rhino
Specialist Groups
http://www.pachydermjournal.org/index.php/pachy/issue/current/showToc show.
We, you and ibiblio, offer granular bits of everything to everybody in
the world; that is our strength and your gifts, a combined independently
managed set of miscellanies for a loosely connected world.
At the same time, we face new challenges. Some are obvious; the economy
and budgets everywhere have taken a nosedive since September of this
year. Some are less so; we will have a new Dean (the search is just
opened at the School of Information and Library Science) and a new
Chancellor at UNC (Holden Thorp who does understand what ibiblio is
about, but will be feeling budget pressures immediately).
Much of our ability to support you comes from your support of ibiblio.
That need not be in for form of money, which is of course always
welcomed and encouraged; it could be in the form of thanking UNC and NC
officials for ibiblio services and for the university's support of ibiblio.
Thanks for your part of making ibiblio wonderful for over 16 years and
happy 2009.
Paul
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