Summon now allows the creation of search boxes limited to specific disciplines. According to Serials Solutions, each item in the Summon index is assigned one or more disciplines based on associated subject terms and/or call numbers. The discipline scoped searches will limit to results from disciplines specified at the item-level, rather than broader database-level disciplines. Discipline facets can’t be accessed via the standard Summon interface, so it would be interesting to see how the search results compare.

Searches can also be customised to limit to specific facets (e.g. just journal articles or journal articles from scholarly publications only, etc).

If anyone would like to test one of these search boxes, please email Library eServices and we will create one for you.

Donna
Library eServices

Romy discovered that overdue items returned 2 or 3 days after their due date were being charged at $1 instead of 50c or 75c. We’ve fixed the Horizon parameters that control this and modified existing $1 fines down to 50c.

It would be a good idea to restart Horizon on circ machines used for CKI so that they pick up this system change and apply the correct fine rate for the rest of the day. Please report any further issues with fines to Library eServices.

Donna
Library eServices

If you are working on Sunday be aware that during the afternoon some Proquest databases will be unavailable. The details are very non-specific. I have put some information on Library News, but if you get complaints you may have to check whether the database looks like a Proquest or Chadwyck Healey product. Check the URL if you can’t tell otherwise.

Peter K.

Dear ProQuest Customer,
A reminder that ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on May 5th/6th, 2012. A twelve (12) hour window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 22:00 ET to Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 10:00 ET. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:
• New and Legacy ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
• Chadwyck-Healey products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com
• Illumina products such as Technology Research Database, Illustrata: Natural Sciences, and Sociological Abstracts
• Genealogy and local history products including African American Heritage, Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, Historic Map Works Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries and Digital Sanborn Maps
• K-12 products, including eLibrary and SIRS
• ProQuest Digital Microfilm and online dissertation products

Library Staff are invited to morning tea to wish Margaret well on her last day of work.

Morning tea will be held in the School of Law tea room, level 5 Law building from 10.30 – 11.30 am on Friday 4th May 2012

The LAWS 110 class (around 370 students) have received their second essay topic. The essay is concerned with the case – Hoani Te Heuheu Tukino v Aotea District Maori Land Board [1941] NZLR 590.
Students have been told that they are expected to research this topic, but they will still ask for help both at the desk and on AskLive. We can offer guidance but please don’t do the work for them.
The best starting point for them is to read the case. It is available from the New Zealand Law Reports online from the Law Guide and in paper copy in the Law Library (take care when searching, as Hoani is often not included in the case name). They should also find books on the Treaty of Waitangi, or on NZ legal history (for general information, and also comment on the case). This is only the beginning! But for further guidance, please refer them to a Law Liaison Librarian (Sue, Sara or Margaret).

Many thanks,
Sara

The minutes from the LR & IS Managers meeting on 14th March 2012 are now available on the Camelot Minutes webpage.

Carole

I am pleased to announce that Sue Johnston has been elected to the position of Library Staff Representative on the Library Committee.

Congratulations Sue!

Carole

The Wiki (e.g. Camelot and the Library Endnote pages) will be unavailable between 8.30-9am on Thursday 19th April due to an upgrade to the software. The upgrade is just for bug fixes, so there won’t be any major changes to the way the wiki looks or functions, and ICTS don’t anticipate any problems.

Library e-Services have tested the upgrade for problems, but please report anything that we may have missed.

Thanks,
Donna
Library eServices

Hi Everyone

The website and blogs are running on a new server now. There will be some consequences of this e.g. changed links, RSS feeds, etc. but we are hoping that redirects being put in place will ensure people get to the correct place even without changing their links. In the longer term, we will want to get all links, bookmarks, and the like changed.

You can post to blogs now. If you need to update web pages, please let eServices know as there will be changes needed to Dreamweaver settings.

Any change of this nature takes a while to take effect everywhere, so there will be some people connecting to the old website, others to the new. Within a few days all connections should be going to the new website.

After Easter, when this has all had time to settle down, we will put another posting on CounterCulture describing things that you might need to change (e.g. bookmarks).

In the meantime, please report any problems you spot to us (and there will be some).

Thanks, Peter

Neither Peter nor Donna will be here on Wednesday. However, Peter expects to do some work from home in the afternoon so should pick up any urgent emails.

Regards, Peter