ILLiad to Be Unavailable Monday, December 1st

Next week will bring some temporary down time for our interlibrary loan service as we perform a system upgrade. ILLiad will be unavailable for requests between the hours of 12:00-2:00 p.m. on Monday, December 1st.

Prior to 12:00 p.m. on Monday we will temporarily disable our interlibrary loan web pages at http://libguides.montevallo.edu/illiad. Over the next several hours we will still accept requests for articles and books; for help submitting a request during this time, please use our Ask a Librarian web pages. Remember that any electronic requests submitted during the maintenance window will not be saved in our system. We will post to social media on Monday once the system upgrade is complete.

Thanks for your patience as we perform this update to our systems!

Harbert Writing Center Consultants in the Library

The Harbert Writing Center is teaming with Carmichael Library, the Learning Enrichment Center, and the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs to pilot an effort to provide extended hours for the Writing Center's services here in Carmichael Hall.

Get Writing Help Tonight

@ your library

Today, October 2^nd from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m., consultants from the Harbert Writing Center will be available on the ground floor of Carmichael Library to work with students who are working on papers. Consultants can advise — and love to advise — writers at any stage of their writing processes.

Related on our blog:

• Harbert Writing Center hours for Fall 2012

eRes Update

[Update 8/19 8:35 AM - We're still working to re-establish access to eRes. We'll post here again as soon as this work is completed.]

[Update 8/18 5:20 PM - Off-campus access to databases has now been restored. eRes is still unavailable.]

Our eRes service is currently offline as part of today's server maintenance project. Off-campus access to databases will also be unavailable for a couple of hours as we continue this work. Stay tuned to this blog for updates on all library services.

eRes to Be Unavailable Tuesday, August 18th

We will be applying server and software upgrades to our electronic reserves system tomorrow, August 18th. While eRes will remain visible online throughout the upgrade, faculty and staff are advised not to upload new documents or make other changes to course reserves pages tomorrow as these modifications will be lost in the transfer to a new server.

This maintenance will begin at approximately 9:00 AM and we'll post here when the work has been completed.

Thanks for your patience as we upgrade eRes!

Catalog Problems Resolved

Our apologies to those who were inconvenienced while attempting to use our public catalog earlier today. As always, please call or e-mail us should you experience any problems while using the catalog. Some issues, such as today's minor glitch, can be resolved in just a few minutes.

Harbert Writing Center Summer I Term Hours

Looking for help with your papers? The Harbert Writing Center is open Monday-Friday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

HWC offers one-on-one assistance to writers at all stages of the writing process. The Center also offers computers for composing and revising papers, as well as grammar handbooks and MLA, APA and Chicago style books.

The Center is located in Room 311, Comer Hall

For more information visit HWC online: www.montevallo.edu/hwc/

Harbert Writing Center May Term Hours

This information comes from Glenda Conway, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Harbert Writing Center:

The Harbert Writing Center is open during May Term from 10:00-2:00.

Members of the University of Montevallo community are welcome to come to the Center to meet with a Writing Consultant or to use the resources (including computers, grammar and documentation guides, or simply the comfortable space).

Harbert Writing Center consultants are trained to work with writers at all stages of the composing process.

The Writing Center is located in Comer Hall, room 311. The phone number is 665-6438.

University Web Site Access Restored

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the earlier problems with the UM web site appear to resolved. We lost access to the university web site shortly before 11:00 AM. The site was again working as of approximately 11:15. Thankfully, this outage did not affect the library catalog or access to full text journals, but it's never a bad idea to have these links bookmarked should we experience further problems.

As always, you can check our blog for any news we receive from Computer Services about planned down times.

Minor Work on Commons Computers

Update at 10:30 AM. We're back up and running!

This is just a quick dispatch from the Ask Here Desk to let everyone know that there will be no access to the public computers surrounding the Desk for just a few minutes. Computer Services staff are now working to upgrade some hardware. This work should be completed shortly and does not impact any other computers in the Library building.

Thanks for your patience as we upgrade our systems!

Harbert Writing Center Summer II Term Hours

The Harbert Writing Center is open for Summer II Term:

Monday-Friday 12:30 - 3:30 PM

HWC offers one-on-one assistance to writers at all stages of the writing process. The Center also offers computers for composing and revising papers, as well as grammar handbooks and MLA, APA and Chicago style books.

The Center is located in Room 311, Comer Hall

For more information visit HWC online: http://www.montevallo.edu/hwc/















Photo taken by Salt Lake Community College Writing Center. Creative Commons license.

Catalog, Databases Unavailable Tuesday AM, May 15

We've got a planned outage to report but this one will only effect you early birds. :)

Most of the university's servers will be taken down tomorrow morning starting around 6:00 AM. While the UM website and campus e-mail will remain available, this down time is expected to include the library's servers for the catalog, the eRes system, and remote authentication into the databases. Computer Services expects that this outage will last an hour or two. At this point we can expect library services to be restored by opening time tomorrow at 8:00 AM.

We'll post here again tomorrow should this timetable change.

Harbert Writing Center May Term Hours

The Harbert Writing Center has released their May term schedule. The Center will be open from May 14-25, from 10:00-2:00 each day.

The HWC provides free consultation services to writers at all stages of the writing process. The Center has current documentation guides, thesauri, dictionaries, grammar and usage handbooks, computers for drafting and revision of course papers, and a very talented and enthusiastic staff.

May term students with writing assignments should take advantage of this fine resource! No appointment is required to receive writing assistance. You'll find the Center in room 311 of Comer Hall.

For more information, check out the HWC web page.

Now in Central Search: E-mail and Save Your Results

Central Search has new features to help you with your research. Included in the latest batch of updates:

• "Marked List" - Enables the easy selection and management of citations. This new feature keeps a running tally of records selected at the top of the page and allows you to move through the result set. In addition, the export process has changed: you'll now see check boxes next to the citations, allowing you to select records for export while viewing the results list.
• Export/Save - Includes several options: 1-click Export to RefWorks; export in format compatible with ProCite and EndNote; save as HTML; or save as Plain Text.
• Email - Provides ability to email citations in a variety of useful formats, from a form within the Central Search interface.

Please call or e-mail us with any questions you may have about these new features!

New Card Readers Available in the Library

We've upgraded our card readers for the photocopiers and they are now ready for you to use. Our new readers also have an added advantage: you can also use them to add value to your card!



The display on the new readers gives you a running tally of how many copies you can purchase with your remaining funds. When your credit runs out, of course, you can always add value to the card you already have using our new readers. Additionally, the original card machine is still available on the main floor.

New Feature in Central Search

Central Search now has a new feature called search clustering. After you've performed your search, look to the upper left of the screen to see the "Clustered Results" for the term(s) you've entered. This feature groups articles with like terms together to help you further narrow your search. You can also cluster by date, by journal title, and by author.

(Central Search is a tool you can use to search multiple databases at the same time. To find Central Search, click here or look for Central Search under the Find Articles section of our home page. Please note: not all of our databases are included in Central Search.)

Interlibrary Loan Forms

The ILL forms are working again, so please feel free to submit ILL requests through the normal channels. Please let us know if you have any problems.

ILL Forms Temporarily Down

Our ILL forms for requesting books and articles are not working at present. Until we get the problems fixed, please submit your ILL requests through worldcat.org or email Patsy Sears or Mary Seagle. You can find our contact information here.

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Did you know that you can use a desktop widget to keep track of our blog? In addition to the live feed on our toolbar, there are other options if you're interested in keeping up with the latest news from your campus library.

Yahoo! Widgets has a nifty RSS Feed Reader that you can place on your desktop and get our latest headlines. Here's how to get it up and running:

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If you've entered the above address correctly, you should see our blog headlines on your desktop!

There's a few steps involved here, so feel free to send me an e-mail if you have questions about how to set up desktop widgets. We can also help you set up our feed in your web-based feed reader. My favorites are Bloglines and My Yahoo!