Horizon and HIP will be upgraded over Tuesday (3rd December) evening and Wednesday (4th December) morning.

Requesting/renewals/logins to HIP/MyLibraryAccount will be disabled at 9pm on Tuesday 3rd December – through to around early afternoon on Wednesday the 4th. The catalogue will be available again (for SEARCHING ONLY) from 10:00pm Tuesday.

Horizon will be unavailable from about 10:00pm Tuesday 3rd of December until the upgrade is completed, probably around mid-day Wednesday.
This will affect all Horizon applications, Horizon reports and for a time will also affect parts of the Library website, including the hours, databases, and bookings pages.

Please ensure that you are logged out of Horizon on Tuesday evening, and do not log in again until you hear from Library eServices that it is OK to do so. Please log-off all PC’s that usually run Horizon, for the night.

It is likely that we will check modules incrementally, with public interfaces taking priority, so even if you see some functions of Horizon working, please do not login to other functions until you have been given clearance. This includes Horizon reports and the High Demand system. RFID should not be used until you get the go-ahead from e-services.

CKO on Wednesday
Issuing on Wednesday will take place manually from Library information desks only, RFID pads will be used on manual mode, allowing items to be “unsecured”. Transaction details will be manually entered into Horizon when the upgrade is complete. See customer services coordinators for more details.

Please ensure that all staff in your area are aware of this posting.

The vendors have informed us that:

the “ebrary platform will experience interruptions in service (up to 2 hours) while scheduled maintenance is performed at the following times:
2pm Wednesday 27th November”.

This may mean there could be problems with users accessing ebrary e-books from 2-4pm.

Kind Regards,

Romy (on behalf of e-services)

Hi all

In preparation for the launch of the new-look library website we are freezing changes on the current site.
Library Web-Editors, please do not make any changes to the library web pages from now until mid-December.

If anyone needs to have anything changed please contact e-services.
We can put any urgent/important information/content-changes through on the live site but will make all others on the test site only and they will go up live when we go live with the new website (around 10th of December).

If you have any questions please contact e-services.

Kind Regards

Romy

Hi all

We (the website review group) have been working towards rebranding the library website (to match UC branding present on many UC webpages now).
At this stage we have set up a demo site and are looking for your opinions, particularly on the navigation menu and quicklinks content (left hand column).

Here is a link to the demo website so you can have a look. The “home” page is currently just an image (a mock-up only) so links in the centre of the page will not work. The left side navigation bar and quicklinks do work and all lower level pages should work (they have just been rebranded and no tweaks/touch-ups done at this stage).

The idea with the home page is that at least one of the central 3 picture/boxes will be a slide show that we can use to showcase features of the library, special news, events e.t.c.(see the UC accommodation site as an example)
The other non-hours picture/box can be used in a similar way or it can be a static box linking to a particular webpage…
The News section will be similar to our current news feed from the Library News blog.

The picture circles at the bottom of the page are designed to be “quick access” type buttons to frequently accessed pages.

We are looking to get agreement on the navigation/quicklinks/picture circles ASAP, so please have a look and send any feedback/comments through to e-services.

We expect to go live with the new branding and navigation the week 9 December.

Note – the demo site will only work on campus.

Cheers

Romy (on behalf of e-services and the website review group).

Hi All

The National Library website seems to be down at the moment (which means Te Puna and other services will probably not be available). We are assuming they are having technical difficulties rather than doing scheduled maintenance. Hopefully they’ll have it fixed soon.

Kind Regards,

Romy (for e-services)

Hi All

After the K drive move you may find your spine label program shortcut is not working or gone.

You can create a new one by right-clicking on your desktop and selecting New > Shortcut.

In the “location of the item” field enter or copy&paste in:

K:\LIBR-Library\library_IT\reports\splabel.bat

Let us know if it doesn’t work for you.

Cheers

Romy (on behalf of e-services)

Hi all

Multi-search appears to be down at the moment. We are in the process of reporting this to Serials Solutions. Hopefully it’ll be back up and running again soon.

Romy

From eTV’s general manager….

“Please be advised that eTV will be offline and unavailable to all users on Monday Oct 7 and Tuesday Oct 8.

We are upgrading our webserver as part of ongoing maintenance and to enable development work for eTV Version 4, scheduled for launch for Term 1 2014.

If you require a particular video for use on those days please download in advance, or contact us so we can arrange to get the video to you during the outage.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Gresham Bradley
General Manager eTV”

Hi liaison librarians…

I’m just letting you know about a small change we have made to dynamic list pages in libguides (e.g. journal lists, database lists that are biblioplus_lg pages).
See http://canterbury.libguides.com/content.php?pid=32999&sid=241827#15503016 for an example of such a dynamic list box.
In the past these lists had a header which allowed you to change to a different sort option (e.g. sort by call). E.g. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/webapps/public/biblioplus.php?page=span_jour
These sort links have been playing up in libguides so we have disabled them (only in the libguide version or the page i.e. those with biblioplus_log.php at the end of the remote script URLs). The default sort for most of these pages is by title alphabetical. If you would prefer call number or author sorts in your libguide remote script box – add &sort=call or &sort=author to the end of the URL. This may not work for all pages (it depends on the template they have been set up with).

Please contact e-services if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,

Romy (for e-services)

Hi All

There appears to be a problem accessing articles for American Physiological Scoiety Journals e.g. American Journal of Physiology. We’ve reported this problem to the publisher as it appears to be something wrong on their end. We will update this post when we hear from the publisher.

Kind Regards,

Romy (for e-services)