At A Distance-UA Libraries Info. for Distance Users

Selected Databases Down on Saturday

The notice below was sent from Proquest. This affects specific library databases including ABI/Inform, Proquest newspapersand Research Library Complete!
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Dear ProQuest Customer,ProQuest will be taking a maintenance window to upgrade our networkhardware. A nine (9) hour maintenance window will take place to installthese upgrades. The window will begin Saturday, June 9, 2007, at 22:00EDT to Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 7:00 EDT.
See below for a more completelist of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during this window:

-- ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers(traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
-- Third-party databases such as PsycINFO(R) Database with Full Text
-- ProQuest Archiver(TM)
-- eLibrary(R), SIRS(R), and CultureGrams(TM)
-- "Digital Vault" products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Thesesand Digital Sanborn Maps
-- Chadwyck Healey, including Early English Books Online, the GerritsenCollection, Policy File, and DNSA

Maintenance window schedule, by time zone:

-- Eastern Time: Saturday, June 9, 2007 starting at 10:00 pm for nine (9) hours

--Central Time: Saturday, June 9, 2007 starting at 9:00 pm for nine (9) hours

We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platformfeedback (platform.feedback@il.proquest.com) or visitwww.proquest.com/suggestions.Thank you for continuing to support ProQuest and the products weprovide.

posted by Maryellen Allen @ 8:06 AM 1 comments

Distance Learners & Action Cards

The message below from the College of Continuing Studies was forwarded along to me. It is VERY important that all students obtain an ActionCard. I know that many of you might never come to campus, but some of you are weekend students and others may visit Tuscaloosa for a home game:
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Now that you are an official student of the University, it is important that you obtain a student I.D. Known as an "Action Card" your student I.D. will allow you to access library services and other student activity related services. We strongly encourage you to have your student I.D. made as soon as possible.

For your convenience, the Action Card Center (104 Student Service Center adjacent to the Ferguson Center), will have special weekend hours to accommodate your schedule. They will be open Saturday, June 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday, June 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is the first time that the Action Card Center has held weekend hours for our students, so we hope that you will take advantage of this special opportunity.

posted by Maryellen Allen @ 8:12 AM 0 comments