The opening hours for each library are listed wrong on our website. Each library is listed as opening/closing an hour later than normal, which is suspect is due to Daylight Savings changes. I have emailed Library IT, so it should hopefully be fixed by Monday morning.
Thanks,
Angela Berry.
Thomson Reuters are holding an Endnote training session at UC on the 13th of October (nicely in the middle of conference!).
This is open to all staff and students so if you get the chance to publicise the session, that would be great. Whle free, registration is needed. Full details are on the Library News page.
Thanks, Peter
The next time your computer starts it will do a reinstallation of Office 2003. This process can take up to 10 minutes which is why we suggest you restart your computer when you are going to lunch, tea or a meeting.
Please, could somebody in each section with a laptop, ensure that laptops are connected and started-up. You don’t want to face this process just before teaching starts.
This very unexciting reinstallation adds nothing new, but is one of the necessary preliminaries for us to move to Office 2007 later in the year.
Endnote users: it may be necessary to run a Repair on Endnote in Add/Remove programs to reinsert the Endnote Toolbar. If, when you start Word for the first time, you get an Endnote error message click on Yes. When Word starts, go to the Help menu and select “About Microsoft Office Word”. Click “Disabled Items”, highlight any Endnote items and click “Enable”. Talk to Library IT if you have ongoing problems.
Thank you, Peter.
Again, this morning, we are having network problems that can mean very slow response, or some network drives not being available. ICTS are working on this although clearly they have not yet found a long-term solution as it keeps happening. Restarting may help, although there is the risk that it takes a long time to log in so may not be prudent at the moment.
Peter
ICTS expect to change over student workstations to Office 2007 on November 16th. We hope to move Library Staff to Office 2007 before that date. This will keep us in step with our students, and enable us to properly investigate products such as the latest version of Sharepoint, for document sharing.
Office 2007 has some major advantages (especially in Outlook) but it also has disadvantages – the main one being that the menu bar looks quite different. There will be some adaption needed and we have been talking to Janelle Blythe in ICTS about holding some demonstration sessions closer to the time of switch-over.
There are also a number of online resources available in Learn: you will need to login. Once in scroll down to see the Office 2007 materials.
We will provide more details as we have them.
Peter
This morning we have seen a repeat of earlier speed issues – both for logging in, and for accessing items on the network. ICTS do not yet know if this related to the problems of a few weeks ago, but are working on it.
Peter
You may get queries from remote users connecting to databases and using Internet Explorer 8 – the latest version.
When they first connect they will get a message that looks like this:
The correct answer is NO. There is no security risk associated with this – it is caused by the Ezproxy login prompt but we expect that we can change the way this works to avoid this message from appearing; we will look to do that in the next few days.
Thanks, Peter
There is currently no access to Subject Guides via the Library Homepage. Library IT have been notified, but are unable to fix the problem today. Peter K. suggests trying again later in the day, or on Monday.
Angela Berry.
Our last Windows server, Cantwl3, is being moved to a ‘virtual server’ tonight. This process will start at 6.00 pm and will probably not finish until mid-day Saturday. I have given Sandra Gover a wee bit more detail, but the main items affected are Digital Library and the Mopier Scan to Network function – neither of which will be available.
The MB Databases, Topomap, and thesis digital-deposit forms will also be unavailable.
Peter
The library has now been supplied with the 2009 Midyear exam papers. This will doubtless occasion widespread joy. To compound the ecstasy, this year there were also 36 (as far as I can work out: it looks like 59 were set but only 36 used) Swine Flu Specials. These will become available shortly, when I finish tweaking them. The main bunch is up live now. There were 3 exemptions granted by the Academic Committee, ACIS 213, ACIS 233 and MGMT 101. As usual, anything noticed to be incorrect, missing or broken please tell me and I will try to fix it.
Jack Arron
