Library News

EXTENDED OCLC SYSTEM MAINTENANCE ON
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2004 AND SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2004

To allow for hardware and system maintenance, the OCLC FirstSearch service
will be unavailable for approximately 6 hours, beginning at 02:00 a.m. US Eastern Standard Time Sunday, February 1, 2004 and again on Sunday, February 8, 2004. This will also affect any libraries that use OCLC group catalog services or link into WorldCat and FirstSearch from partner information services. Temporary disruptions to the QuestionPoint service are also likely to occur on February 8, 2004.

Barring any unexpected problems, we anticipate that these services will be available for use again beginning at approximately 08:00 a.m. US Eastern Standard Time Sunday, February 1, 2004 and February 8, 2004 respectively.

OCLC sincerely regrets the inconvenience to its users.

Posted by at 9:16 AM | Permalink

A notification of hardware maintenance at Kluwer's electronic journal site has been sent to users at SU Library:

All Kluwer Online Journals sites, including the gateway pages at:
http://journals.kluweronline.com
http://journals.kluweronline.com
http://www.kluweronline.com
http://www.kluweronline.com

will be down on Sunday 25 January 2004 from 3:00 - 3:30 PM EST for hardware maintenance. Other Kluwer Academic Publishers web sites will be unaffected.

Kluwer apologizes for this inconvenience and will make this technical change as quickly as possible.

Posted by at 11:43 AM | Permalink

The following new databases have been added to SU Library's collection of electronic resources and are available online.

HarpWeek : Full text access to Harper's Weekly from 1857 to 1877, including the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. This database includes scanned images of the periodical in addition to searchable text.

Sanborn Maps : Digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.

Bertolt Brechts Werkes : An electronic edition of Brecht's works based on Bertolt Brecht - Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden - Jubiläumsausgabe um 100.

Kafkas Werke im WWW : An electronic edition of Kafka's complete works, Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebücher.

Posted by at 11:02 AM | Permalink

SU Library has added a new JSTOR collection to its electronic journal subscriptions. The Arts & Sciences III Collection is focused on the arts and humanities and currently contains 33 Language & Literature journals, 32 Music journals, and 7 journals in the disciplines of Art & Art History and Architecture & Architectural History. Additional titles in these fields as well as journals in cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, and religion will follow. The collection will be complete by the end of 2005.

A title list can be viewed at
http://www.jstor.org/about/asIII.list.html.

Posted by at 10:11 AM | Permalink