YUL Updates

Part-Time Employment Opportunities

William Denton — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 20:30:04 +0000

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

Scholars Portal services will be unavailable beginning Sept. 6 at 11pm

Jocelyn Lagerquist — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:26:45 +0000

Please be advised that there will be a scheduled disruption to Scholars Portal services beginning Friday, Sept. 6 at 11pm. The disruption may last up to 24 hours. Access to RefWorks, some e-journal/e-book content and possibly ODESI and GeoPortal data … More »

Trial: GRAND CORPUS DES LITTÉRATURES FRANÇAISE ET FRANCOPHONE, DU MOYEN ÂGE AU 20e SIÈCLE

Aaron A Lupton — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:19:04 +0000

The library is currently running a trial of the Grand Corpus des littératures françaises et francophones aka The Great Corpus of French and Francophone literature (click on Databases’ direct URL).

The Great Corpus of French and Francophone literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century offers the 4 online corpus of literature published by Classiques Garnier Numérique:
- the Corpus of medieval literature from the origins to the end of the 15th century
- the Corpus of narrative literature, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century
- the Corpus of Francophone literature from Black Africa, from the origins to Independence
- the Corpus of literature from the Indian Ocean, from the origins to Independence

The trial will run until the end of September. If you have any questions about the database you can contact ereport at yorku dot ca

A Note about Graduate Printing

Christina G Pringi — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:34:44 +0000

The Libraries are in the process of converting workstations to a new campus-wide print system. Workstations that have been converted to the new system will temporarily be unable to print using the grad printing quota. Access to grad printing from library workstations will be restored Sept. 3rd.

In the meantime, access to graduate student printing will continue to be available at the following locations:

Scott Library – 6 workstations in the Grad Reading Room (4th floor)
Peter F. Bronfman Library – 2 workstations
Frost Library – after Aug. 28th please enquire at Frost Reference Desk
William Small Centre

We thank you for patience.

Scholars Portal service interruption – Saturday September 7

Aaron A Lupton — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:48:43 +0000

As a result of a planned upgrade to the Pillar storage array, a number of Scholars Portal services will be unavailable for a period of time on Saturday September 7.

The following services will be unavailable from Friday September 6, 11 PM to Saturday September 7, 3 PM:

- Journals

- Books

- ODESI

- GeoPortal

- SCOT and SPUD analysis tools

- Dataverse

RefWorks will be unavailable for 24 hours from Friday September 6, 11 PM to Saturday September 7, 11 PM.

Please contact help@scholarsportal.info if you have any questions.

Emergency Shutdown of Scholars Portal Services, Sunday July 28

Aaron A Lupton — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:31:19 +0000

Scholars Portal has been advised by their storage vendor to proceed with an upgrade to their Pillar storage array as soon as possible, following last week’s cooling and hardware issues. This will help prevent similar drive failures in the future. As a result of this upgrade, a number of Scholars Portal services will be unavailable for a period of time this weekend.

The following services will be unavailable from Sunday July 28, 8 AM to Monday July 29, 8 AM:
- Journals
- Books
- ODESI
- GeoPortal
- SCOT and SPUD analysis tools
- Dataverse
- RefWorks

This weekend’s maintenance is in addition to the planned service outage for the August holiday weekend, which is due to a scheduled full electrical shutdown of the Robarts Library building.

At that time, ALL Scholars Portal services will be unavailable from Monday August 5, 5 AM to Tuesday August 6, 5 AM.

Please contact help@scholarsportal.info if you have any questions.

Scott Elevator up and running again

Christina G Pringi — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:47:01 +0000

Thanks for your patience!

Elevator in Scott Library temporarily out of service

Christina G Pringi — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:58:10 +0000

Currently the Scott Library elevator is out of service. Technicians have been called and we hope to have the elevator up and running as soon as possible.

New acquisition: African American Studies Center

Aaron A Lupton — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:49:59 +0000

We have recently added Oxford’s African American Studies Center to our online collections.

The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles. The core content includes:

New from Ebsco: Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1

Aaron A Lupton — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:03:27 +0000

We have recently added Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 to our collections.

The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: The Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection Series 1 presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture. This collection conveys the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics – shedding new light on the intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized them from the earliest moments of this country’s history through contemporary times. The Latino-Hispanic American Experience focuses exclusively on the Latino-Hispanic history in the United States.

The Latino-Hispanic American Experience collection draws its content from the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.” The project functions under the direction of Dr. Nicolás Kanellos, founder and director of Arte Público Press and includes publications from all regions of the nation.