Details are below – if you are interested in seeing what SirsiDynix are doing, and their plans for Horizon & BlueCloud services, have a chat to your manager about attending. Full details and a link to register are contained in the Road Show website.
It is free and the core sessions are between 9.30 am and 2.00 pm.
There are 15 global library email lists (see list below) all starting with “_LR Library…”
Originally these were maintained by the Learning Resources Admin Team, but that team has morphed into the Financial Shared Services Team with somewhat different responsibilities.
Maintenance of these lists now resides with eServices. Let us know if you need changes made. Over the next week we will review the lists ourselves, to check they appear accurate.
The lists:
_LR Library
_LR Library Academic Liaison
_LR Library Casual Library Assistants
_LR Library Central and Learning Hub
_LR Library Committee
_LR Library Customer Services
_LR Library E-Services
_LR Library Interloans
_LR Library Law
_LR Library Learning Teaching and Research Management
_LR Library Liaison Officers
_LR Library Macmillan Brown
_LR Library Managers
_LR Library Resource Acquisition
_LR Library Resources Discovery
PressDisplay, which provides online access to newspapers and magazines from around the world, is now called PressReader. It has been redesigned and is now very similar to the PressReader app released over a year ago.
Links in our Catalogue and database pages changed yesterday. We had some concerns with this change but most of those have been fixed with help from the vendor. However, the vendor suggested there may be problems using Chrome or Firefox. We have seen some problems – but they appear related to caching rather than to browser type and do seem to go away.
I expect there will be a few teething issues, but hopefully when people get used to it, the newer software will provide a better experience than the old.
Library Access and Collections staff will have a number of other changes to put in place to do with original cataloguing, and how we keep our holdings data up-to-date on the OCLC database. It may take us a few weeks to get all of our processes running smoothly.
We first noticed this yesterday, and lots of other Libraries elsewhere started reporting this problem overnight.
Taylor & Francis have changed their infrastructure. The consequence is that many articles will not open directly in MultiSearch. The side-frame appears, but the left-hand portion of the screen remains blank.
At the moment, you can use the Additional Options link at the bottom of the side-frame to open 360 Link which normally contains a direct link to the article. From tomorrow, there will also be an option to Open content in new tab, again at the bottom of the side-frame which should work.
A little later in the week we should be able to add a prompt to the, currently blank, left-hand portion of the screen to help.
On Wednesday, 20th April, the Institutional Repository will be unavailable at times. This is to allow the underlying software to be upgraded to fix some security issues.
We have been advised by Proquest that there are problems linking to EBSCO full-text articles. EBSCO are working on this – they comment:
We are aware of an issue currently affecting our Open URL server that is affecting customers linking into the FT on EBSCO databases. We have our networking services group investigating this matter as a high priority service issue and hope to have an update shortly.
