Campus IT & Library Updates

CCS has scheduled the following maintenance to occur just before and during the reading week break.

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BDO in collaboration with the University’s Research Enterprise & Scholarly Communications and the Centre for Open Learning and Educational Support proudly presents an Intellectual Property Learning Series.

When: Feb 16, Mar 14, Mar 29 and Apr 26, 2012 Where: McLaughlin Library Room 384 Who Should Attend: Faculty members, Professional Staff and students, graduates and undergraduates inter-ested in integrating the IP knowledge to their Academic and Research activities. Objectives: To provide linkages between different aspects of IP to Academic and Scholarly activities by providing real-life case studies and fostering dialogue and discussions on IP matters that are becoming increasingly dominant and embedded in research and business mod-els.. What to expect: This will be a fabulous opportunity for you to hear and learn from the Business/Professional experts and some of our own Scholarly Community, to make intellectual property your best academic ally. 10:30—12:00: Case Studies and Concepts presentation and Discussion 12:00—12:30: Networking Lunch Topics will include: Feb 16 Copyright and Fair Dealing Policy, Software and App Creation Mar 14 Patenting Inventions Mar 29 Canadian Intellectual Property Office Case Studies—Cell Bio Thera- peutics Apr 26 World Intellectual Property Day—A Special Panel Register through: http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/registration/index.cfm Please register a.s.a.p. Space is limited. There is no cost for Registration Contact hsarma@uoguelph.ca for further details on this new initiative.

There was a software issue preventing the backup service from running last night. The issue is now resolved, and any backups that were missed will be caught up over the week-end.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact CCS help centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca or x58888.

Adobe Connect web conferencing will be unavailable on Feb. 12, 2012 for all or part of the interval from 10:00 PM to 11:59 PM to allow for routine maintenance. This service is hosted by Adobe and this time period is their regular maintenance window.

We expect normal service to be restored at the completion of the maintenance period. Anyone seeking further information can contact the service desk at x58888 or by emailing 58888help@uoguelph.ca.

On Friday, February 10, 2012 starting at 4:00 pm, the Financial Services e-business system will be taken offline for regularly scheduled maintenance. The system will be available again early Saturday morning. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the CCS Help Centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca  or extension 58888.

The McLaughlin Library and Askchat will be closed, Monday, February 20th which is Family Day.

Enjoy the day off.

The rest of the week, February 21st through the 24th, is reading week and the McLaughlin Building and service desks hours are reduced.

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The Library has other resources related to black history, such as the following collections of documents:

• Black Thought and Culture
  
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
• Black Drama

For black history in Canada, try resources such as:

• Early Canadiana Online
• Canadian Newsstand, which includes a collection of black newspapers (content from 2004 onwards, but including articles on black history)

The word is out and users have chosen to keep William’s Coffee Pub in the Library. In partnership with Hospitality Services, the Library released two recent surveys for Library staff and students to discover whether users would prefer Starbucks over William’s.

The surveys were open for a week and both had very good response rates. Ninety-eight staff members completed the survey and over 53% prefer William’s. Obviously, many staff members use the services of William’s on a regular basis and wanted to voice their opinions.

Along with staff responses, over 1700 students completed the survey. Clearly students make up a large portion of our user group and 62% prefer William’s, while only 34% prefer Starbucks and 5% have no preference.

Both the Library and Hospitality Services continue to work together to better meet the needs of Library users. The Library is enthusiastic about the decision to keep William’s and encourages individuals to provide continuous feedback. Please contact libcomm@uoguelph.ca with comments or questions.

PRIMO access has been restored.

In the meantime, please use this PRIMO link until re can restore the link to the Librar homepage.

Our apologies for the unexpected inconvenience.

By 9:30am, the previously reported expired SSL certificate had been renewed.

If you have any questions, please contact CCS help centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca or x58888.

This morning CCS received reports that the password change utility was broken.  We resolved this issue by 9:20am and are working to understand the root cause.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact CCS help centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca or x58888.

CCS is aware that the SSL certificate for www.uoguelph.ca has expired and is working to resolve the issue.

If you have any questions, please contact CCS help centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca or x58888.

The Storage and Backup Team will be making a configuration change to Central Storage, between 6:00 am and 8:00 am on Thursday February 2nd.

No service interuption is expected.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact CCS help centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca or x58888.

We are aware that a large number of students are not able to access Oxford Reference Online. As of now, only 5 concurrent users are allowed to use this package. Please be sure to "log out" when you finish your search, so that others will be able to get immediate access. Please be patient.

If you are part of the following classes, other background resources have been incorporated into the following course guides:

HIST 1010 - course guide

HIST 1250 - course guide

SOAN 2112 - course guide

On Tuesday, January 31, between 6:00am and 8:00am, CCS will be making configuration changes to the server that powers the organizational web hosting service.  A brief service interruption is expected during this maintenance.

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Users may have problems logging in to Gryph Mail this morning. Our service provider is currently investigating. Please check back here for updates.

Update (Mon Jan 30 9:00 AM): This issue appears to have been resolved. All users should now be able to log in to Gryph Mail. If you continue to have problems logging in to Gryph Mail, please contact the CCS Help Centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca or extension 58888.

 

On Tuesday, January 31, from 7:00am to 8:00am, CCS will be making minor configuration changes to the internet gateway router in an effort to balance internet traffic between two university's internet service providers. No service interruption is expected during this maintenance.

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Whether you’re interested in fiction writing, magazine writing, tweeting or scientific journals, there is a session suited for you at the Writers’ Workshop. The workshop sessions are designed to provide hands-on, practical tips and instruction for a wide variety of writing needs.

The Writer's Workshop is a two day event on February 23rd & 24th open and free to all students, faculty, staff and alumni. The greater Guelph community is also very welcome to attend these sessions at a cost of $30 per session or $50 for a day pass. We do strongly recommend that you register early for sessions you wish to attend as seating is very limited.

Visit the conference website for a full list of the available sessions along with a brief biography of the session leaders.

If you are interested in leading a workshop, or you have comments or questions, please contact us at: libcomm@uoguelph.ca

Thank you for your interest in the Writer's Workshop, we hope to see you at the event.

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Hospitality Services is considering changing the coffee pub in the Library from Williams to Starbucks - we want you to decide. This survey will take less time than it takes to order a half-caf, grande java chip frappacino with a half shot of espresso, topped with twice whipped cream, hold the fudge...

https://surveys.ccs.uoguelph.ca/limeSurvey/index.php?sid=88638&lang=en

On Tuesday, January 24th between 6:00 AM and 8:00 AM, CCS will perform maintenance activities on the campus web hosting infrastructure.  Access to the following web sites may be intermittent during this time:

• gryphons.ca
• listserv.uoguelph.ca
• www.alumni.uoguelph.ca
• www.recruitguelph.uoguelph.ca
• www.fin.uoguelph.ca

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the CCS Help Centre at 58888help@uoguelph.ca or extension 58888.