A hard drive that served as digital backbone went kaput
The Durango Public Library’s Integrated Library System, a server that contains the collection catalog, patron records and databases, rebooted with a new hard drive Friday. An old hard drive failed overnight Wednesday, leaving the library without access to its digital information resources.
Durango Public Library is “fully functional again,” Director Sandy Irwin said Friday afternoon.
The library’s digital information backbone broke overnight Wednesday, leaving staff without access to the collection catalog, patron records and databases.
A hard drive in an Integrated Library System server at Durango Public Library broke, an impending mechanical failure staff warned City Council about this summer.
The servers at the library are old, and the company that services them does not produce hard drives designed to fit the library’s outdated equipment.
Irwin said Thursday she ordered a replacement hard drive. By 3 p.m. Friday, the drive was delivered and installed, she said.
