Scholars Portal – Upcoming hardware maintenance May 24-25

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Rita Carcasole

Upcoming hardware maintenance to one of the storage arrays will affect Scholars
Portal services.

From May 24 at 8 PM to May 25 at 4 AM, the following
services will be unavailable:

- Journals
- Books
- ODESI
-
GeoPortal
- SCOT and SPUD analysis tools
- Dataverse

- RefWorks

The following Scholars Portal
services should not be affected:

- RACER
- SFX
- OUR
- Ask A
Librarian
- OJS platform
- WizFolio
- OCUL Website
- SPOTDocs
wiki

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Please contact help@scholarsportal.info if you have questions prior to this window

Scott Elevator temporarily out of service.

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Christina G Pringi

The elevator repair people have been called, and signs have been posted.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Part-Time Employment Opportunities

Posted on May 1, 2013 by William Denton

There are currently Part-time job opportunities in the library. For details, see Part-Time Employment Opportunities on the web site.

New from Adam Matthew Digital

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Aaron A Lupton

We have added some new products from Adam Matthew to our Online Collections.

Mass Observation III

The latest addition to Mass Observation Online will further supplement coverage of the war-years and for the first time includes personal writing material from the post-war years.

The new content provides research opportunities from an age of post-war austerity and the rise of consumerism and the welfare state:

demobilisation
health and the NHS
reconstruction
industry
sport
holidays and leisure

Foreign Office Files for CHINA (1919-1929)

The three parts of this collection make available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1948:

1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
1930-1937: The Long March, Civil War in China and the Manchurian Crisis
1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese War and the Seeds of Communist Victory [due in 2014]

PLEASE NOTE: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest is now known as Popular Culture in Britain and America 1950-1975

Campus Wide Internet Service Interruption: Sunday February 17th, 08:00-11:00.

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Tuan Nguyen

Please be aware that there will be two short network service interruptions
on Sunday February 17th between 08:00-11:00.

Each interruption will last about 15 minutes and will affect all network
traffic leaving and entering the campus.

The first interruption will affect all academic buildings, the second
interruption will affect all residence buildings.

This interruption in service is required to implement an upgrade to the
network border bandwidth capacity and introduce a new network Intrusion
Prevention system.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services -
email: ithelp@yorku.ca or visit http://ithelp.yorku.ca