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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

OhioLINK services & possible browser errors

OH-TECH has informed OhioLINK that on Tuesday, May 31, between 9am and 11am, they will be updating the load balancers for all their services (which includes OhioLINK services). There will be no downtime as part of this maintenance.

However, as part of this, OH-TECH will be disallowing certain types of connections from outdated browsers. Users with outdated browsers may see errors.

OH-TECH has verified that the following browser versions will continue to access all services without error after the change.

Google Chrome: v 51, 50, 49
Mozilla Firefox: v 46, 45, 44
Apple Safari: v 9, 8, 7
Microsoft Internet Explorer: v 11, 10, 9

Other browsers may also continue to function, but this is what has been tested.

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General Interest Professional Development

Ohio Library Support Staff Institute

The Ohio Library Support Staff Institute (OLSSI) for 2016 is scheduled for July 24-26 at Ohio Northern University. Their scholarship contest is currently under way, with applications due by 5:00 pm on April 15th. Early bird registration ends April 30th.

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Cummings Center for the History of Psychology

CCHP Exhibit for Rethinking Race Forum

The exhibit “Black Psychologists and the American Dream” showcasing materials from the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, is now located on the first and second floors of Bierce library.  The exhibit features a speech written by Martin Luther King, Jr. only seven months before he was killed, personal and professional materials of the first Black woman psychologist in America, a seminal book in the struggle for African American psychologists to be recognized within the profession, and film stills from the 1963 program, “The Negro and the American Promise”.

These original materials from archival collections at the Cummings Center put the African American experience in context with psychology.  The exhibit reveals the struggles of Black psychologists within the profession of psychology, as well as the history of civil rights in American psychology.

This exhibit complements the “The African American Dream: Historical Perspectives in Today’s Society” Rethinking Race event sponsored by the Cummings Center.

The exhibit will be open through the month of March.

James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Kenneth B. Clark
Kenneth B. Clark
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X

 

ProQuest Scheduled downtime – 1/16

On January 16, 2016, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of your products. The window is scheduled to begin at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time and will last for 8 hours.

During this time, access to the ProQuest products listed below will not be available, and users will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance:

Research databases:
ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com)
ProQuest Congressional (congressional.proquest.com)
ProQuest Dialog (search.proquest.com/professional)
Chadwyck-Healey databases (full list available here)
CultureGrams
eLibrary (all editions)
ProQuest Digital Microfilm
ProQuest Obituaries
ProQuest Research Companion
SIRS (all editions)

Dissertation dissemination:
ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator

Reference management/Research support tools:
RefWorks
COS Funding Opportunities
COS Scholar Universe

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Electronic Services General Interest

Scheduled downtime: ProQuest Aug 8, 10pm

On Saturday, August 8, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of its products. The system maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 10:00 PM American Eastern Standard Time and will last for eight (8) hours.

During this time access to the ProQuest products listed below will not be available and users will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance:

Research databases
ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com)
ProQuest Congressional (congressional.proquest.com)
ProQuest Dialog (search.proquest.com/professional)
Chadwyck-Healey databases (full list available here)
CultureGrams
eLibrary (all editions)
ProQuest Digital Microfilm
ProQuest Obituaries
ProQuest Research Companion
SIRS (all editions)

Dissertation publishing
ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator

Reference management/Research support tools
RefWorks
COS Funding Opportunities
COS Scholar Universe

Bibliographic and catalog enrichment resources
Books in Print®
LibraryThing for Libraries™
ProQuest Syndetic Solutions™
Resources for College Libraries

Bowker
TitlePage
SAN (Standard Address Number)

 

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Dean's Office General Interest Professional Development

Everett Awarded Two National Scholarships

Stephanie Dawson Everett was recently awarded two significant national scholarships towards the completion of a Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree.

The American Library Association (ALA) selected Stephanie as a 2015-2016 Spectrum Scholar awarding her with a one-year, non-renewable award of $5,000 in scholarship funds and reserving $1,500 for her participation in ALA and the 2016 Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. She was designated as the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Scholar in this year’s Spectrum cohort.

She was also selected as an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 2015-17 Diversity Scholar. This honor provides a financial award of up to $10,000 towards tuition and expenses to attend the 2016 ARL Leadership Institute Symposium held in Boston. Additional award benefits include a site visit to a sponsored research library, $2,500 for professional development, and a student membership in a professional organization.

Both scholarships seek to increase the number of racially and ethnically diverse professionals in the field of library and information science to best position libraries at the core of today’s culturally diverse communities. Selections were made based on the applicant’s commitment to diversity, commitment to entering the library profession, demonstrated community outreach, academic ability and achievements, and leadership potential.

Stephanie is currently pursuing the Library Management track at Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science. She expects to complete her MLIS in the fall of 2016.

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Electronic Services General Interest

Thompson’s short story places in fiction contest

Paul Thompson’s short story Fall received second place in the category Fiction: Fantasy in the recent Wordhaus fiction writing contest! Congratulations, Paul!

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General Interest

EmpCenter upgrade 7/19 from 3-9am

EmpCenter upgrade

(re-posted from EMail Digest)

On Sunday, July 19, EmpCenter will be upgraded from 3 to 9 a.m.
During that time, EmpCenter and its functions will be unavailable.

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Electronic Services General Interest

7/8 switch to new H: drive location

We will switch to the new location for our H: drive early on Wednesday, July 8.

This change should be transparent to everyone. If you do find something to be awry with your H: drive or My Documents, log out of Windows and back in to see if that corrects it. If it does not, please submit a footprints ticket.

 

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Electronic Services General Interest

H: drive server upgrade

On July 8th we are transitioning to a new server where our H: drive is located. This is part of a larger, university-wide IT upgrade to server hardware and software. This change will be transparent to you as the end-user. Mike has made the necessary changes on most staff and faculty PCs already, and will be stopping by shortly if he has not yet updated your machine.