Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is transferring to a new website www.oed.com, you may experience some technical difficulties when trying to access it.

Creative Chaos International Summer School

Creative Chaos is an international summer school, hosted by York St John University, held in the beautiful historic Roman City of York, England and Terni, Italy.

An accredited summer school that offers the chance to build skills within film & television and performing arts.

Extend your practice through creating new work delivered through workshops, lectures and a final presentation in Italy. Led by a team of internationally renowned practitioners and skilled academics.

Deadline for submissions from International students Tuesday 14th December 2010

Deadline for submissions from UK Students Friday 3rd December 2010

Selection Panel results provided week commencing 10th January 2011

See Creative Chaos website for more information.

Possible disruption to electronic resources - 23 November 2010

On 23 November 2010, Eduserv will be performing maintenance on the OpenAthens Account Administration website. This could lead to disruption of off-campus access to our online resources. Should you experience any difficulties on this day, check http://status.openathens.net for more information on whether resources are not working. You can also contact the library information desk by email to libraryqueries@yorksj.ac.uk, by telephone on (10904)876698, or by the library instant message service for help. Please let us know what resource you are trying to access and any error message you receive.

Stuart

Off-campus access to electronic resources - technical issues 18 November 2010

We have experienced some technical issues with off-campus access earlier today which meant that some users may not have been able to access eBooks and eJournals. These issues should be resolved and apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

However if you continue to experience issues, please try entering your username in the following format:

yorksj/firstname.lastname or firstname.lastname@yorksj.ac.uk

If you still experience issues, please contact libraryqueries@yorksj.ac.uk, or ring (01904) 876698 with details of the problem, including any error messages and the address of the webpage you are accessing.

Stuart

[Lecture] The Small Secret Sociology of Jane Austen Subjectivities, Hierarchy, Context

You are invited to attend a guest lecture by Chris Wilkes, Vice Provost for Research and Professor of Sociology at Pacific University USA

The Small Secret Sociology of Jane Austen Subjectivities, Hierarchy, Context

The interiority of Jane Austen's novels leads most sociologists to conclude that they are a lost cause. A claim can be made, however, that this focus on the interior life offers a largely unexplored avenue into social subjectivities and social habitus. More than this, Austen's account of largely rural, domestic life is rife with judgements about hierarchy and social context. Using Bourdieu's theory of habitus, field and capital as a backdrop, we can begin to form a picture of the social fields, capitals and positionalities that formed in Austen's period.

The lecture will take place on Tuesday 16th November at 17:00 in De Grey Mini Lecture Theatre (DG/014). Please note that this is a change of venue.. There will be a sparkling wine and canape reception afterwards in the Second Floor Lounge, Fountains Learning Centre.

No prior booking is required. We hope to see you there.

WorldCat Local unavailable 7-11am, 14 November 2010

OCLC will be conducting a maintenance install this Sunday, November 14th, which should be completed between 7-11 am. WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local will be unavailable during this time. This is to move the WorldCat database to a new storage device.

This means that the Search functions for Catalogue and Catalogue Plus will be unavailable during this time. However, you will still be able to renew and check your loans and use the old catalogue interface.

Stuart

WorldCat Local unavailable 7-11am, 7 November 2010

OCLC will be conducting a maintenance install this Sunday, November 7th, which is typically completed between 7-11 A.M. WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local will be unavailable during this time. This means that the library catalogue search and catalogue plus functions will be unavailable. The old library catalogue at http://stjohnslibrary.yorksj.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/49?user_id=WEB-SJ will still be available, and you will still be able to renew and place holds on books.


Further maintenance is due to take place on Sunday, November 14th.

Technical difficulties with inter-library loan form 4 November 2010

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the inter library loan book request form at http://w3.yorksj.ac.uk/library/library--information-services/get-help/help-and-information/inter-library-loans/ill-forms.aspx. If you have submitted a book request electronically this week, please contact interlibrary@yorksj.ac.uk so that we can check whether the form came through.

We are working to rectify the situation asap.

Best wishes

Stuart