My Reference Notes

All:

Over the next few days, both libraries staff and OIT need to do some work that will require downtime for MNCAT Classic (Aleph) and
MNCAT Plus (Primo). Here are the details:

--Friday morning 5/29, midnight until approximately 4:00 am: MNCAT Plus will be unavailable while we run a cold backup of the Primo database. MNCAT Classic will be available.
--Saturday morning 5/30, 6:00 am until approximately 10:00 am: MNCAT Plus will be unavailable while we install a service pack. MNCAT Classic will be available.
--Sunday morning, 5/31, 5:30 am until approximately noon: MNCAT Classic will be unavailable while OIT installs an Oracle patch, and MNCAT Plus will be unavailable while OIT does some work on network storage.

Thanks for your patience during this routine maintenance.

Posted by s-gang at 5:58 PM | Permalink

On Sunday, May 24, OIT will be replacing network switches in several data centers on campus. This means that:

--MnCAT Plus (Primo) will be down from approximately 5:30 am through 12:30 pm.
--MnCAT Classic (Aleph) will be inaccessible for a period of approximately 90 minutes between 6:00 am and noon,
and may be sporadically inaccessible for additional periods during that timeframe.

Posted by s-gang at 6:10 PM | Permalink

A ONE-HUNDRETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF ELMER L. ANDERSEN will feature remarks by U librarian Wendy Pradt Lougee, Andersen’s son Julian Andersen, and Star Tribune columnist and Andersen biographer Lori Sturdevant; a showing of a new documentary on Andersen's life, "Legacy of a Leader: Elmer L. Andersen"; and an opening dessert reception for "A Man’s Reach: A Transforming Life," a new exhibit exploring Andersen's interests, philosophies regarding government and business practices, and impact on the U, the state, and the nation. June 17, 7:30 p.m., Willey Hall. Free and open to the public. RSVP by June 10 to Andersen or call 612-624-9339. For more information, see Elmer Andersen announcement.

Posted by s-gang at 2:16 PM | Permalink

U of M Pre-K through 12 Web page

Posted by s-gang at 2:13 PM | Permalink

Beginning Sunday (May 17) library building and service hours will be reduced for the summer with many locations having later opening and earlier closing times than during the regular school terms. For a full listing of services and building hours for all Library locations see:
http://lib.umn.edu/site/hours.phtml

Posted by s-gang at 4:25 PM | Permalink

In an effort to reduce the number of service points while expanding service hours for our users, both the Wilson Periodical Information Desk and the Wilson Course Reserves and Periodicals Service Desk will close in their present locations at the end of spring semester on May 16, 2009. The course reserves collection will be relocated to the 1st floor Wilson Circulation desk, allowing print reserves to be available whenever the building is open. The information type services for the Wilson Periodical collections and equipment will be referred to other information and reference desks within the building.

Staff who work with both these collections and services will remain in the 65L office area of Wilson. The phone number for the reserve processing staff (624-6576) will stay the same.

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me. Information referring to these services are being updated to reflect the changes.

Posted by s-gang at 8:24 PM | Permalink

Search Results
Viewing Records 1 to 5 of 1863 Sort by
Name: Herbert Aal Language: English
Experience: Jewish Survivor Video Availability: Viewable Now
Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp)(generic)

Name: Irena Abraham Language: English
Experience: Jewish Survivor Video Availability: Viewable Now
attitude toward Poland and/or Poles

Name: Ruth Abramsky Language: English
Experience: Jewish Survivor Video Availability: Viewable Now
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)

Name: Sandy Ackerman Language: English
Experience: Jewish Survivor Video Availability: Viewable Now
Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Death Camp)

Name: Anni Adler Language: English
Experience: Jewish Survivor Video Availability: Viewable Now
attitude toward Poland and/or Poles

Posted by s-gang at 8:47 PM | Permalink

Here's the Google Initiative Q & A page which at this date has lots more info than the Google Initiative home page.

Here's the announcement from the U's Brief:

Vol. XXXIX No. 18; May 6, 2009
Editor: Adam Overland, brief@umn.edu

CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND EVENTS
University-wide:

GOOGLE APPS FOR THE U IS UNDERWAY, with implementation planned for early fall. The Google Initiative project Web site is the place to find the most current information on the project. This site includes a Q&A page, as well as general information. Regular and timely updates will be posted to the site. Questions and comments can be sent to the project team. For more information, see Google Apps.

Posted by s-gang at 2:00 PM | Permalink

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is old news to users, but I've been working closely with RefWorks for a couple years now and I thought this issue had been resolved...so just a heads up in case the question comes your way.

Write-N-Cite with Macs is still only compatible with .doc file types. .docx files cause Write-N-Cite to error out. I was working with a patron that was getting quite a headache over this and we eventually contacted RefWorks support.

RefWorks is working on a fix...but until then Mac users that have the newest version of Word should probably be advised to save their documents as .doc before formatting the final document in Write-n-Cite.

This issue *does not* occur with PCs.

Best,
Jon

--
Jon Jeffryes

Posted by s-gang at 8:00 PM | Permalink