ISRL Systems Administrators

The goal of the ISRL technical staff is to provide a flexible, scalable, and reliable infrastructure for GSLIS information systems researchers and service projects to accomplish their goals. This infrastructure is constantly evolving. In trying to implement this infrastructure, we are conducting experiments in how to effectively develop and maintain a customer-managed network.

The personnel that make up the technical staff include:

Martin Wolske, Manager of Research Systems

Martin is a full time academic professional. Martin's background is in Behavioral Neurosciense, having received his Ph.D. at Rutgers in the field in 1993. His curriculum vita can be found at http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~mwolske/cv.html.

Martin's major duties and responsibilities include:

• Facilitate cooperation with other providers of Information Technology services within GSLIS, within the University, and within the community to maximize mutual effectiveness.
• To manage and train the staff, University students, and volunteers who assist in the management of the servers, services, and underlying network infrastructure used by GSLIS research and outreach programs, including the full-time Computer Systems Specialist.
• Provide basic network training to LIS students through assigned courses as well as one-on-one training opportunities.
• To stay apraised of, and to investigate, new technologies that might apply to the field of information science.
• To design, implement, and maintain a flexible, stable, forward-looking Unix-based server infrastructure for GSLIS's ISRL and Prairienet Community Network.
• To implement and maintain core Internet services that use the Unix-based systems.
• To assist in the management of the GSLIS and Prairienet networks
• To provide overall ongoing infrastructure-level technical support of servers, services, and the underlying network for GSLIS research and outreach projects.
• Provide targetted technical support for ISRL and Prairienet as needed.

Brynnen Owen, Computer Systems Specialist

Brynnen is a full time academic professional with a background in Physics. He received his Ph.D. in the field from the University of Illinois in 2001.

Brynnen's current major duties and responsibilities include:

• To design, implement, and maintain a flexible, stable, forward-looking Unix-based server infrastructure for GSLIS research and community outreach projects.
• To implement and maintain core Internet services that use the Unix-based systems.
• To provide day-to-day ongoing infrastructure-level technical support of servers, services, and the underlying network for GSLIS research and outreach projects.
• Provide basic network training to LIS students through assigned courses as well as one-on-one training opportunities.
• To manage and train University students and volunteers who assist in the management of the servers, services, and underlying network infrastructure used by GSLIS research and outreach programs
• To stay apraised of, and to investigate, new technologies that might apply to the field of information science.
• Provide targetted technical support for ISRL and Prairienet as needed.

Paul Kennedy, Computer Systems Specialist

Paul is a full time academic hourly with a background in Computer Science. Paul received his master's in the field in 2002.

Paul's current major duties and responsibilities include:

• Provide support on low level infrastructure development projects for ISRL and Prairienet.
• Provide day-to-day technical support for ISRL users.