In Spring 2015 the University will be migrating the faculty & staff email to Exchange Online, a cloud-based email solution. For information about the migration and what you can expect, see the Exchange Online Migration Project website. This site includes a Project Overview Presentation which clearly explains why the migration is taking place and what you can expect.
UPDATE: UL Dept migration is scheduled for 4/13/15. You can see a migration schedule by department on the project migration page.
There will be a scheduled maintenance for Wiley Online Library at the following date and time:
DATE: Saturday – March 21, 2015
TIME: — beginning — 5:00 am New York
DURATION: up to 10 hours
On Saturday, 3 January 2015, OCLC has scheduled a technology upgrade to support system performance and reliability.
During this upgrade, all OCLC services will be unavailable on 3 January 2015, from 12:01 am to 3:00 pm, U.S. Eastern Standard Time (approximately 15 hours).
The Annual Meeting of the Document Academy (DOCAM’14) will be held this year in Kent, OH from August 7-9!
It’s an international, interdisciplinary conference for scholars, practitioners, and students where you can rub elbows with some of LIS big wigs, such as Michael Buckland and Brian C. O’Connor.
You do not have to be presenting to attend. We are still accepting proposals for the poster session (email Jodi Kearns if you’re interested: jkearns@uakron.edu) and DOCAM is launching the brand new peer-reviewed conference proceedings. So come join us!
Registration and program information can be found on the conference website: www.kent.edu/docam14
OARnet scheduled maintenance Feb. 5 from 8-10pm
OARnet will be making equipment upgrades. This may result in two short interruptions in access to the OhioLINK website, shared catalog, database lists and other web services. OARnet expects that these interruptions will last 1 minute or less.
Some specialized software that the libraries do not have installed on the public workstations or that students don’t have installed on their personal machines is available via the university’s Virtual Lab.
Information about the university’s Virtual Lab is available from their site: http://www.uakron.edu/dts/virtual-lab/
The list of software available via the Virtual Lab is listed under Machine & Software Configuration.
There will be a basic intro to Search A Roo for library staff on Oct 31 from 10-11, Bierce 274.
OhioLINK has Scheduled Maintenance on several of their products and services from 11/1-11/2
Expect 30-minute Service Outages starting on Friday, November 1 (at 11 PM) and ending on Saturday, November 2 (at 3 AM)
OhioLINK expects service outages of approximately 30 minutes at varying times for each OhioLINK service during scheduled maintenance on the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) shared infrastructure firewall. On-campus access to content on third-party (non-OhioLINK) vendor websites will not be affected.
The following access/services will be affected by 30-minute outages: Libraries using OhioLINK’s remote authentication (proxy) for off-campus access to third-party vendor websites; and all other OhioLINK-hosted services, including online databases, the OhioLINK central catalog, the OhioLINK Electronic Journals Center (EJC), the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC), OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), OhioLINK Music Center, OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository, and the OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons (DRC).
The Society of Georgia Archivists has named Emily Gainer, Special Collections Librarian/Assistant Processing Archivist at the Center for the History of Psychology, and Michelle Mascaro, Coordinator of Cataloging Services and Special Collections Cataloger at University Libraries, as the 2012 winners of the David B. Gracy II Award. The David B. Gracy II Award is awarded annually in recognition of a superior contribution to the society’s journal, Provenance.
Emily and Michelle’s winning article “Faster Digital Output: Using Student Workers to Create Metadata for a Grant-Funded Project,” is a case study on training and supervising student workers involved with University Libraries, Archival Services’ National Endowment of Humanities grant-funded project to digitize and make available online photographic negatives from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Records. Over the course of the project, ten students created metadata for over 23,400 digitized images. These images are available online as part of University Libraries, Archival Services Digital Collections (http://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15960coll3) .
