Students are having problems logging into Learn and accessing course files. Access was available after opening, around 10am, but appears to be down again now.
A voicemail message has been left for ICTS, although it may not be picked up until Monday morning.

Angela Berry.

The final move of email accounts should occur on Wednesday morning. eServices and Library Support Services moved on Tuesday and thus far no problems have been noticed. However, these don’t always show up immediately.

From Wednesday, lunchtime, you will not be able to login directly to a shared email account via a web browser as distinct from the outlook software on your desktop. I know some of you do use a web browser – you can still do it, but you need to login as yourself and then add the shared email accounts. Instructions are here but if you have any problems talk to Romy or me.

Peter K

Thomas Evan O’Beirne arrived last night after a very short labour. At 3.94kg (8 pounds 11 ounces), he’s nowhere near as big as the scans would have had us believe! Everything went really well in the end, despite all the initial problems.

Thomas is the name of his only surviving great-grandparent and also means “twin”, which we thought was quite apt, given that he’s kind of a twin to Elsie! Evan is after my Grandmother, whose surname was Evans.

So glad he’s finally here, and I can get some rest (of sorts). This was him being held by his dad not long after he was born

Summon and LibGuides have enabled a mechanism to make it easier for a LibGuide to be found in Summon. We have had this enabled by the LibGuides people and it is up to you whether you decide to use it or not. The instructions from SerialsSolutions are:

For those of you that are using LibGuides research guides (or CourseGuides) from Springshare, we are excited to announce some additional integration features that will allow you to easily map your Guides to Summon disciplines. This can be accomplished using a new, administrative option within the configuration tools for your Springshare Guides.

Mapping your Guides to Summon disciplines will optimize LibGuides for use with our new Summon Topics features (coming soon with the new Summon 2.0 interface) and enable better matching of recommended Guides and subject specialists. All Guides mapped to Summon disciplines will be more discoverable right away – especially for users who use the discipline facet to refine searches.

To map each of your guides to Summon disciplines, just select the appropriate Summon discipline from within the new disciplines administrative tool of your Guides. To access the Summon discipline selection tool, click on “Guide Settings -> Change Guide Information” in the orange toolbar on top. Click on the “Subject Associations” tab to expose the Summon Disciplines pull down list.

In the Summon disciplines pull down select the Summon discipline that best matches the content of your guide. This will be the primary discipline associated with this guide. If you would like to associate additional Summon disciplines with this guide, you may select more than one discipline, but, Summon will give a relevancy boost to the first discipline you select.

Peter K

This advice from ICTS:

‘Between 8.30am and 9.30am on 11 July, the UC Wiki will be unavailable for 10 minutes for system maintenance to increase the amount of RAM (memory).

For us this means Camelot, and the public Endnote wiki.

Peter K

Tēnā koutou,

To celebrate Māori Language week and the theme for 2013, Ngā ingoa Māori (Māori Names), Christchurch City libraries created an online exhibition to celebrate and tautoko this kaupapa, called, “Ngā ingoa Māori o Waitaha – Māori place names of Canterbury.”

The exhibition showcases some of the heritage resources they have in their collection that record local history and place names. It includes maps, photos, other online resources such as Tī Kōuka Whenua and digitised publications.

If you’re interested, you can view it here, http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Maori/Language/Exhibition/
Enjoy!

Aurelia

The latest mid-year exam papers are now available. Any errors or omissions, let me know. There are bound to be som:, the whole process was suspiciously easy this time around!

Jack Arron

Camelot is down. I think this is an unexpected by-product of some test upgrades being done by ICTS. I have left a message for the person working on this and hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Thanks, Peter K

Hi Everyone

A reminder that next week will see a significant RFID upgrade with some disruption to services. Nothing will happen before 10.30 on Monday and we will keep you informed as things progress.

Thanks, Peter

Our keyword indexes are not working in HIP – I’ve copied across an older set but this hasn’t helped. Browse indexes are OK.

I’ll start rebuilding the indexes but this will take several hours to complete.

Peter K