YUL Updates

Scholars Portal – Upcoming hardware maintenance May 24-25

Rita Carcasole — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:44:09 +0000

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.

Christina G Pringi — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:25:53 +0000

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

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Part-Time Employment Opportunities

William Denton — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:20:04 +0000

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

Aaron A Lupton — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:48:24 +0000

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.

Tuan Nguyen — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:04:58 +0000

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

Libraries resume normal operations Saturday Feb.9

Christina G Pringi — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:34:19 +0000

From the York University website: “At 9:30 p.m. on Friday, February 8th 2013, a decision was made by York University to suspend Weather Emergency Procedures and to resume normal operations at its Keele and Glendon Campuses effective 8:30 a.m, Saturday, … More »

Libraries closed due to weather emergency Friday

Christina G Pringi — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:23:15 +0000

Libraries at Keele and Glendon campuses will be closed Friday, February 8.
From the website: “The University has adopted Weather Emergency Procedures at its Keele and Glendon Campuses. All day and evening classes have been cancelled and examinations postponed. University offices and Libraries are closed.”
Please check the York website for updates on weather closures: http://webapps.yorku.ca/weather/

Now on Trial: Early European Books, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)

Aaron A Lupton — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:53:21 +0000

We have arranged trial access to two new ProQuest products:

Early European Books

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first hand accounts, and unparallelled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

The trials will run from Jan 24 – Feb 23 2013. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback please send to ereport at yorku dot ca

The Life and Art of Gustav Klimt: Forerunner to Modernism

Christina G Pringi — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:31:11 +0000

Gustav Klimt was one of the central figures of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the epoch that marked the beginning of Modernism. Creator of some of the most famous Art Nouveau paintings worldwide, Klimt was also one of the organizers of the “Jugendstil” art movement in Vienna.

To commemorate the official “Gustav Klimt Year” in Austria and his 150th birthday, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies is pleased to present an exhibit of his life and work. This exhibition, generously provided to us by the Austrian Cultural Forum, focuses on the artist by recreating the atmosphere of his era through historical photographs, biographical documentations and reproductions of his finest and most famous works of art.

The exhibit will be on display on the 1st Floor of York’s Scott Library until January 30.

New from Adam Matthew: Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange

Aaron A Lupton — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:45:30 +0000

We have recently added a new product from Adam Matthew to our online collections: Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years.