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Pathfoot Reference Room C24 closed in mid semester break

The Pathfoot Reference Room C24 will closed during mid semester break. It will reopen at 2pm on 13th April. If anyone requires any resources from the reference room during this period please contact Helen Beardsley, h.r.beardsley@stir.ac.uk

31. March 2010Library News, Opening hours, Vacation 0 Comments »

Stirling Campus Library – plans for reopening

The target date for opening the new Library building on Stirling Campus is Monday 30 August 2010. 
 
In order to achieve this we will have to move books, equipment, service desks and staff.  The Library Programme Board has approved the decision to close the interim library from  Wednesday 25 August and re-open in the new building on Monday 30 August. 
It is considered that this will keep the inevitable disruption to a minimum.
 
Note that the following services will remain available during the closure period.
  • A-Z online resources – if you need to do literature searching
  • Library catalogue – if you need to check references
  • Study zone and rooms in 4W corridor – if you need to study
  • 2Y5 computing lab – if you need to use a pc
 
Thanks
 
Lisa Haddow
_____________________________________Lisa Haddow

Project  Manager

Library

Information Services

University of Stirling

Stirling FK9 4LA

 

Tel: 01786 467232Fax: 01786 466866

Email: l.j.haddow@stir.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

30. March 2010Uncategorized 0 Comments »

Electronic access to Nature, Nature Geoscience and Apidologie

You can now access articles online from the journals Nature, Nature Geoscience and Apidologie. Simply log on to your portal, search for the journals in the catalogue and click on the link.

 

Elizabeth Andrews

Subject Librarian

25. March 2010Journals, Library News, Uncategorized 0 Comments »

Portal service resumed

The student and staff portals are now available.  Users of the SITS application will be informed when it is available

Apologies for any inconvenience
 
Information Services and Student Administration

 

25. March 2010Uncategorized 0 Comments »

Portal downtime Thursday 25th March

Reminder: the portal will be unavailable tomorrow morning due to an essential upgrade to SITS, the student system.  Access to WebCT, library and other resources will be made available via alternative links and for your convenience these are included below. 

 

While the portal upgrade is taking place you can still access the following services directly:

 

We will endeavour to minimise the downtime and restore the full portal as soon as possible.  Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

Information Services and Student Administration

 

 

 

24. March 2010Uncategorized 0 Comments »

Advance notice of portal downtime: Thursday 25th March

Due to an essential upgrade of the student system (SITS) it will be necessary to make the portal unavailable during the morning of Thursday, 25th March.  Access to WebCT, library and other resources will be made available via alternative links.  We apologise for the inconvenience and will aim to minimise the downtime as much as possible.
 
Information Services and Student Administration
 

 

16. March 2010IT News, Portal, Uncategorized 0 Comments »

Looking for new books about social work?

The Stirling Campus Library has bought 50 brand new social work books in the last year. A list of these books is available here

12. March 2010Library News 3 Comments »

Network Upgrade Project

Systems and Network Services have been working for some months on a project to upgrade the data network across the entire Stirling campus.  This project will deliver an increase in bandwidth which should improve network performance for the majority of
users and will provide the network infrastructure on which the University’s new telephone system will be based.  Although the work is taking place only on Stirling Campus, Highland and Western Isles users will be affected for one brief period towards the end
of this first phase of the work.
 
The first tranche of equipment has already been physically installed and we now need to start migrating users from the old equipment onto the new.  This will require two separate periods of network downtime the first of which will occur between Tuesday
9th March and Friday 19th March, inclusive.  The second periods of downtime will be later in the year and have not yet been scheduled.
 
All migration work will be done during the Network “at risk” period 0630 – 0830.  I will send further Service Messages giving notice of the specific areas that will be affected by each day’s work.  Note that small groups of users may be affected by more
than one day’s work.
 
Users in the affected areas are advised to power off all networked equipment (e.g. PCs, printers) on the evening before their migration and switch them back on again at 0900 after the work has been done.  Departmental “servers” will not be affected by
the work and need not be powered down.
 
The first work on Tuesday 9 March will affect:
Cottrell users in the general vicinity of 3BW, specifically
  • any wireless hubs in that geographic area
  • those with network sockets with numbers ending with “W”
  • rooms 3B114 and 4W6
 
If you did not power something down as advised and it is not working on the day of your migration a simple reboot should fix the problem.
 
Alan Richardson
Systems and Network Services Manager
 

 

 

5. March 2010IT News 0 Comments »

Need up to date articles about education in Scotland?

The Scottish Educational Review journal is now available in electronic format. Search the library catalogue for Scottish Educational Review or go to http://www.scotedreview.org.uk/content.php Full text articles are available from 1997 onwards, with abstracts to articles from last two most recent issues also available. If you need the full text from the most recent issues the library has these in paper format.

4. March 2010Journals, Library News, Websites 0 Comments »