News

AberLearn Blackboard access

27/01/2012

AberLearn Blackboard will be unavailable from 8pm on Friday 3rd February until midday Saturday 4^th February due to essential maintenance.

It will also be “at risk” from midday Saturday 4^th February until 9am Monday 6^th February.

For more information, please contact bb-team@aber.ac.uk

Exchange email “At Risk” Tuesday 31 January

25/01/2012

Exchange email will be at risk between 8:00 and 12:00 am on Tuesday 31 January due to essential maintenance. 

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Thomas Parry Library closed Wednesday 1st February

25/01/2012

As a result of maintenance work by Welsh Water on Wednesday 1st Feb 2012 Thomas Parry Library will be closed. The rest of Llanbadarn Campus will stay open as most buildings have water tanks. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Analogue Phone Disruption

23/01/2012

There is a problem with the analogue phone system which means that some users will have lost service completely. This does not apply to VOIP phones. We are waiting on an external engineer to visit to help fix it so it may be a few hours before service is restored.

Thinking of a career in Library and Information Management?

20/01/2012

Take a look at the Graduate Library Assistant (Trainee)positions in Aberystwyth University Information Services: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/hr/jobs/vacancies-external/

Primo "At Risk" Tuesday 17th January

16/01/2012

Some areas of Primo will be at risk between 8:30am and 9:30am on Tuesday 17th January due to system maintenance.  

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Exhibition to mark the bicentenary of Dickens birth in 2012

13/01/2012

Come and take a look at a display of books by and about Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth in the Hugh Owen Library.

Aberystwyth University Library holds a number of early copies of novels by Dickens along with the first volume of “All The Year Round” from 1859, including the initial serialisation of “A Tale of Two Cities”. Also on display are George Powell’s copy of the collected letters published by Chapman and Hall in 1880 and Camden Hotten’s 1870 biography.

Make the most of 2012!

11/01/2012

Make the most of 2012 - get your New Year off to a good start and find out how to use IS services to the max!

http://jump.aber.ac.uk/?knqd

IS Services - 5 Jan 2012

05/01/2012

All computing Services are now available.

 

 

Information Services Disaster Recovery Plan testing is now complete.

If you have any problems please contact Customer Services on ext: 2400

IS Services At Risk - 5 Jan 2012

05/01/2012

Email is now working for both staff and students. Other IT and library services should be considered at risk until 5pm.

All services 'At Risk' - 10th Jan 2012

03/01/2012

On Tuesday 10th January, maintenance work will be taking place which requires the electricity supply to the Computer Room to be switched off. All

 

IS services, including email and Web browsing, will be at risk between 05:30 and 09:30 on Tuesday 10th January 2012.

Voyager and Primo unavailable 4th Jan 2012

03/01/2012

Voyager and Primo will be unavailable between 09:00 and 09:30 on 4th January due to system maintenance. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Information Services will close at 4.30pm on Friday 23 December 2011 & will reopen at 8.30am on Tuesday 3 January 2012

23/12/2011

Information Services wishes everyone an enjoyable break.

We're dreaming of a greener Christmas - are you?

19/12/2011

• Save paper! Don't print your articles off before you go home - you can access our electronic resources from anywhere using VPN and Primo: http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/advisory/faq/163/
• Use your central filestore. Staff and students have their own individual filestore that can be accessed on and off campus from any computer with a network connection: http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/advisory/faq/95/
• Staff can also access office and departmental documents via SharePoint: http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/advisory/faq/218/
• Turn off all non-essential electronic equipment, including printers/photocopiers, computers, monitors, scanners etc.

Information Services: planned interruptions to services (Thurdsay 5th January 2012)

16/12/2011

On Thursday 5th January 2012, Information Services will test its disaster recovery procedures.

 

These annual tests are essential to ensure that, in the event of an actual disaster, our staff are trained and able to restore services as effectively and efficiently as possible. 

This year's tests will be more rigorous than last year’s and as a result there will be significant unavailability of IT and library services throughout the whole day. This includes web, blackboard, email, library catalogue and the telephone service. It is anticipated that testing will start at 9 AM and be completed by 5 PM and we will inform all users when the tests have been completed.

Thursday 5th / Saturday 7th January.    In order to minimise disruption to users, we will be testing disaster recovery procedures on BIS systems (AStRA, QL, Cyborg, etc) on Saturday 7th January instead of on Thursday 5th January.  Access to BIS systems will still be affected for some periods on the morning of Thursday 5th while the network is recovered, but it should be possible to use these systems without interruption from midday onwards on that day.  These systems will not be available to users on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th January.

For more information, see http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/news/disaster-day/

Exchange email service at risk – 20 December 2011

08/12/2011

Exchange email service will be at risk on Tuesday 20^th December for essential maintenance.

Computer room closures January 2012

07/12/2011

To accommodate two large online exams, Information Services will be temporarily closing the Hugh Owen Library EL6 computer room on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th January. On both these days, the room will be closed between 09:00 and 13:30, re opening in the afternoon.

On both days computers will be available to students in the following locations:

• Level D Hugh Owen Library
• Level E Hugh Owen Library, (main floor and Law Library)
• Level F Hugh Owen Library (main floor and Tom Lloyd silent study suite)
• Physical Sciences Library
• Student Union
• Llanbadarn Campus
• Pantycelyn, Rosser and Trefloyne
• Old College and Joseph Parry

 C66 Hugh Owen Building will also be available on Thursday 26th January.

To see the numbers of computers available in each location, take a look at www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/computers/rooms/availability/

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Aberystwyth University Libraries open as usual Wednesday 30th November 2011

30/11/2011

Please note that all Aberystwyth University Libraries are open as usual today. Normal opening hours apply to all our sites.

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/library/hughowen/

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/library/physicalscience/

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/library/tp/

Christmas Vacation opening hours and loans

30/11/2011

  

Hugh Owen Library opening hours
Saturday December 17		10:00 - 18:00
Sunday December 18		Closed
Monday - Thursday December 19 - 22		08:30 - 17:30
Friday December 23		08:30 - 16:30
Saturday December 24 – Monday January 2		Closed
Tuesday – Friday January 3 - 6		08:30 - 17:30
Saturday – Sunday January 7- 8		10:00 - 18:00
Monday January 9  – term time hours apply
Monday – Thursday		08:30 - midnight
Friday		08:30 - 21:30
Saturday & Sunday		10:00 - 18:00
There may be some variations in other AU libraries, please check the libraries' webpages: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/library/
Vacation Loans
Standard and Three day loans	From Monday, 12 December 2011 until Monday, 9 January 2012
Short loans and one day loans	Usual loan periods apply
Details of computer room opening hours over the Christmas vacation may be found at (AU only) http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/computers/rooms/
Information Services wishes everyone an enjoyable break.

Start Christmas @ Aberystwyth University’s First Book Festival

29/11/2011

Start Christmas @ Aberystwyth University’s First Book Festival 

December 5

17:00-19:00

Hugh Owen Library

 

Meet local authors, see interviews and digital stories. 
Enjoy free mince pies and mulled wine.

AU Book Festival

25/11/2011

Information Services is excited to host the first AU Book Festival on Monday 5th December.

The event includes interviews with academic and local authors, viewings of digital stories made by writersand opportunities to buy some of the books featured.Mulled wine and mince pies will be served.

All are welcome - the event will start at 5:00pm on the ground floor of the Hugh Owen Library.

This event is supported by the Welsh Government and CyMAL. 

Network outage fixed

23/11/2011

The network outage in Rosser/Trefloyne has now been fixed.

Network Outage.

22/11/2011

The network in Rosser blocks C,F,G and Trefloyne A and B is
currently down. Wired and wireless networks are affected. We are
working on resuming service as soon as possible.

Do you use other academic libraries? Can you get what you need?

22/11/2011

The Higher Education library community wants to provide the best possible service to students, researchers and staff who, for all sorts of reasons, wish to access other academic and specialist libraries.
Please help SCONUL develop the services and access you need by completing this short online survey - it should take 5-6 minutes.
You can access the survey at http://www.sero.co.uk/sconul_access.html
*WIN VOUCHERS* Prize Draw for SIX winners of £30 Amazon vouchers - optionally provide your email address at the end of the survey to be entered in to the random draw
Data Protection - Sero Consulting is registered with the Information Commissioner and undertakes that your data will be held securely and will not be disclosed in any way that can be traced to an individual.

Please note that this is an externally organised survey and there is no Welsh version.

Changes to Webmail for staff

21/11/2011

With effect from Monday 21 November staff who are on the Exchange mail service (How do I check this?) should use https://exchange.aber.ac.uk instead of https://webmail.aber.ac.uk when checking their mail via the web.  

The Hugh Owen Library is open to midnight Monday Thursday until the end of term

17/11/2011

Tell  escstaff@aber.ac.uk  what you think about the Hugh Owen Library opening until midnight Monday – Thursdays.

Primo at risk - 15 November 2011

14/11/2011

Primo will be unavailable for a short time between 9am and 11am on Tuesday 15th November 2011 for system maintenance.

Pay your library fines online

10/11/2011

 To check and pay your library fines online go to Primo at http://primo.aber.ac.uk :

 

• My Account
• Log on
• Fines and Fees
• Pay your fines online

Payments can be made via a credit or debit card and the minimum payment is £1. 

Lewis Carroll Display

10/11/2011

Come and take a look at Lewis Carroll’s early works, including mathematical tracts, The Hunting of the Snark and Alice that are being shown in the Thomas Parry Library.

Midnight opening at the Hugh Owen Library Monday - Thursday

10/11/2011

 The Hugh Owen Library has extended its opening hours to midnight on Monday -Thursday. These opening hours will continue until the end of term to provide more access to study spaces and IS resources to students and staff.

 

Please let us know your views on these extended opening hours at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/feedback/

Movement of staff email accounts to the Exchange Mail Service – Autumn 2011

10/11/2011

 Aberystwyth University currently runs two email services:

• The Exchange mail service – for staff
• The IMAP mail service - for all students and some staff, visiting staff, office and web accounts.

Between 21 November – 9 December 2011 Information Services will be moving allremaining staff and visiting staff accounts onto the Exchange Mail Service. It is very unlikely that you will need to change your email client. More information about whether this will affect you and, if so, what you will need to do can be found at: http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/advisory/faq/1028/.

If you would like to organise a session that looks at the additional features that using Outlook through Exchange provides, for colleagues in your Department please email us on is-comms@aber.ac.uk.

We are also offering Exchange sessions. For further details and to book a place see http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/courses/.

Information Services: tell us what you think about the printing/copying/scanning service

04/11/2011

Information Services: tell us what you think about the printing/copying/scanning service

 

 

During the week beginning 07 November 2011 you have the chance to tell us what we've done right and how we can improve the printing/copying/scanning service.

There is an option to be entered into a draw for a prize of a £30 Amazon voucher.

Go to: www.survey.bris.ac.uk/aber/suggestions11

Free anti-virus software for Macs and PCs

21/10/2011

Old College Study Centre

17/10/2011

We are pleased to announce the re-opening of the Study Centre in the Old College Library which now contains seven computers which were previously located in the Resource Centre. There is also a quiet area with sockets for laptops in the north-west corner. The large tables and chairs used in the library are still available for use. There is wireless coverage throughout the space.

Its extended opening hours will be 09:00 and 21:30 Monday to Friday, and 09:00 and 16:00 on Saturdays during term-time.

JISC Digital Literacies Workshop, 4 November 2011

07/10/2011

Aberystwyth University will be one of the sites used for a JISC workshop on digital literacies on 4 November.

The workshop is free of charge but spaces are limited, so please register early on the event website:  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/4thNovWorkshop.aspx.

More information can be found on our Nexus news blog: http://nexus.aber.ac.uk/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/JISC+Digital+Literacy+Workshop+at+AU

Primo - finding information just got better!

21/09/2011

Primo - finding information just got better!

Primo is a single interface for finding books, e-books, print & electronic articles and digital media.

It is also the place to access your library account for renewing & reserving library material.

For advice and training visit the Primo home page:

http://primo.aber.ac.uk

Follow aberuni_is for the 12 Tweets of Christmas

01/12/2010

‘Twas the night before Christmas and the University was closed ...

 Although Information Services’ libraries will be closed over the Christmas period, you can continue to use our excellent  services. Follow Information Services on Twitter during the last 3 weeks of term to discover how you can carry on using IS services throughout the holidays.

Follow aberuni_is from 1st December for the 12 Tweets of Christmas