Help and advice from ILS Clinics

We have released more dates for our drop in clinics. Come along and get advice (and chocolate) on referencing, finding information for your assignments, uploading assessments in Moodle, and more.  No need to book, just come along:

Academic Study Clinics
29 October 2012	11.00
31 October 2012	15.00
6 November 2012	13:30
14 November 2012	09:45
16 November 2012	14:30
20 November 2012	15:45
22 November 2012	10:30
26 November 2012	13:00
30 November 2012	09:30
4 December 2012	14:30
6 December 2012	10:45
10 December 2012	12:00
12 December 2012	14:00

IT Trainer Clinics
6 November 2012	13:45
12 November 2012	12:45
22 November 2012	10:00
30 November 2012	11:00
3 December 2012	10:00
11 December 2012	13:45

New search tool now live

Discover, our new resource search tool, is now live:

• Seamless linking to ebooks
• Finds more than books
• Easy linking to full text journals

Any questions, come along to one of our drop-in sessions:

• 6 November at 1.30pm
• 14 November at 9.45am
• 16 November at 2.30pm

Now open for longer

In response to your feedback we have revised our opening hours and are now open for longer.  For more information check out the Information Learning Services website.

Wiley Online Maintenance

Please be aware that Wiley, one of our e-journal providers, will be undergoing some essential maintenance at 10am tomorrow, 27 October 2012.  The disruptions could last for up to 2 hours.  If you have trouble with an e-journal tomorrow between 10 and 12, please check you are not trying to use a Wiley e-journal before you reporting the problem.

EBSCOhost planned maintenance 12pm 26th October

Please be aware that parts of the EBSCOhost service, which provides some of our e-books and e-journals at York St. John University, will experience some disruptions during planned maintenance occurring around 12pm on the 26 October 2012 for about an hour.  Parts of the service will still be available but those areas likely to experience severe disruption are:  

• Personal User Authentication
• Checkout and Download of eBooks
• Alerts
• Access to My EBSCOhost folder items or the ability to save items to personalized folders from session

If you experience problems with electronic resources around 12pm on the 26 October 2012, please check first that it is not an EBSCOhost resource before reporting the issue.