Law Dept Surgery

I won't be running my Tuesday surgery in the law dept during the summer term.

Sue White

Athens Scheduled Maintenance - Sunday 13th April 2008

Hi Everyone,

We have received the following message from Athens about work being carried out this Sunday morning.

I don't believe this will cause us any problems, but it might be worth me publicising the direct link to MyAthens (https://auth.athensams.net/?ath_returl=%2Fmy%2F&ath_dspid=ATHENS.MY_BETA) in case some of you have just got www.athens.ac.uk bookmarked, and it appears this will be unavailable.

Thanks,

James.

Message from Eduserv:

Please be aware that our third party network supplier ntl:Telewest will be carrying out Scheduled Maintenance on Sunday 13th April 2008. This work will be carried out between 00.01am and 12.00pm. During this time the following services will be unavailable: • Self Registration
· Athens proxied resources
· Athens DSP area
· The following websites www.athens.ac.uk, www.athensams.net, and www.athens.nhs.uk
MyAthens, the Athens administration website and authentication services will not be affected.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the Eduserv Athens Service Desk.

IBSS is moving to EBSCO

Hi Everyone,

We've received this email about IBSS moving from Ovid to EBSCO over the summer. Gill or I will make the necessary changes to IBSS in the eLibrary after the term has finished.

James.


We are writing to tell you about a change to the IBSS online service during 2008. In accordance with public funding regulations, a competitive tender for IBSS service provision is carried out every three years to ensure value for money. As a result of this process, IBSS will be appointing EBSCO as its service provider for the UK user community from 1 August 2008. IBSS would like to thank Ovid for providing an excellent service during the 2005 - 2008 contract period.
Continued funding by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) means that the UK user community - UK HE/FE institutions, ESRC recognised research institutes and central government departments - will continue to benefit from access to IBSS free of charge.
The timetable for the transfer will be as follows:
* 1 June to 31 July 2008 - Dual access to IBSS will be available
via both Ovid and EBSCO, so that individual institutions can decide when they wish to transfer.
* 31 July 2008 - Final switch-off date of the IBSS via Ovid
service for institutions using IBSS free of charge.
As your institution already subscribes to other services via EBSCO, their customer service team will automatically switch on access to IBSS using the current access details (IP/Athens etc) they have for you.
EBSCO will get in touch with your main IBSS Library contact to confirm when this has been done, and to advise about the new IBSS login links so that these can be updated on your website.

CrossSearching Emerald via eLibrary

Hi Everyone,

An email has been sent to the MetaLib discussion list to say that the new Emerald interface has some interoperability problems with MetaLib . This means that we have had to switch off crosssearching of Emerald. We will switch it back on as soon as Ex Libris have resolved the problem.

Thanks,

James.

MyiLibrary Browse Warning

Hi Everyone,

Please be aware of the following in case you get any enquiries from MyiLibrary users about this.

Sharon had a recent query from a student who recieved the following warning when she was skimming through a book in MyiLibrary:

Sharon was able to replicate this warning by skimming through the same title herself and confirms that she didn't copy or print anything.

I queried this with our MyiLibrary contact and they informed me that there is a 'flow regulator' which exists as part of the Digital Rights Management System. Apparently this is set at 10 pages per minute and will trigger this warning if a user flicks through a publication quite quickly.

I pointed out that the warning was triggered when nothing untoward was happening (no printing or copying). Although they took this point on board MyiLibrary tell me that the system is set up like this to prevent 'print spiders' from going through a title and printing large amounts of it. Also, it is possible that a user could skim through a title and save each page to a memory stick to print later, and MyiLibrary wouldn't be able to detect this.

So, the response is that the warning will have to stay, but they will review the wording. They did point out that although it would be normal for a user to flick through a print book, they don't necessarily need to do this with an e-book, as they have the option to keyword search, so if we get users reporting these warnings, we probably need to advise them of this.

Hopefully this shouldn't happen too often and users do get 3 warnings before they are locked out of MyiLibrary.

Thanks,

James.

Law Encyclopedias

The loose-leaf encyclopedias that have been kept in the 2nd floor office will go out onto the shelves next week with the exception of:

Encyclopedia of Consumer Law

We will be monitoring usage of this one title over next year. It will be in the 2nd floor office on my desk.

I’ve cancelled lots of loose-leaf encyclopedias and I’ve put stickers on them all to say when they have been last updated. Bibs will make the necessary adjustments on Aleph.

Sue

Sue White's hours

Hi,

My new hours are:

Mon 8.30am to 1pm
Tues 8.30am to 12.30pm (because the law dept insist my surgery is from 11.30 to 12.30)
Wed 8.30am to 5pm (1 hour lunch)
Thurs 8.30am to 4pm (1 hour lunch) = 22.5hours

Let me know if you experience problems because of this change…

New hours start 31st March

Sue White