Tuesday, 15 January 2008

E-Resources in Standalone OPACs

Hi Everyone,

Now that the ebrary records have been added to the OPAC users are naturally clicking on the links to 'View' them. When they do this on the standalone OPACs they just get a 'Page cannot be displayed' message, as these machines are restricted to OPAC use only.

I've asked Paul to try to find a way to display a more informative message on these machines, telling users that they need login to an open access PC to view e-resources. However, this might take some time.

In the meantime Mircea is adding a notice to the top of all the OPAC monitors telling the users that they need to move to a networked PC if they want to view any e-resource that they find.

Thanks,

James.

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