Technology Backup Collaboration Workgroup – inactive

This Workgroup is now inactive. In December 2025 the group determined to pursue separate platforms. Because of this, the workgroup members felt that the work of this group, the WPLC Technology Backup Workgroup, is now complete and there is no need for future meetings. The group noted there was no economic benefit to doing the project collaboratively, but did note that the collaborative research was beneficial and will plan to share out potential research projects with one another in advance,

Charge

The Technology Backup Collaboration Workgroup will provide project expertise and make recommendations to the Technology Steering Committee on project budget needs and governance structure for the backup collaboration project. 

The Backup Storage Platform will aggregate infrastructure backups from any participating Wisconsin public library system into equipment hosted in two data centers (South Central Library System and LEAN, WI). The Systems will be connected via BadgerNet. The purpose is to provide secure and redundant storage accessible by System IT staff.

Documents

Past agenda and note documents can be found here.