Possible catalogue disruption 27 Feb 2011, 5am-4pm

On Sunday, February 27 there will be a scheduled service downtime for a number of OCLC services from 4:00 am until at least 11:00 am and, at most, 4:00 pm GMT. This may lead to some disruption of library catalogue services. OCLC need to take the following services off-line in order to upgrade the storage systems and capacity for all OCLC services. During this time, the following services will be unavailable:

• ArchiveGrid
• Connexion
• Cover art display in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local
• Digital Archive
• FirstSearch
• FTP services
• OCLC Usage Statistics
• WebDewey
• WorldCat Collection Analysis
• WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway
• WorldCat Identities
• WorldCat Resource Sharing
• WorldCat Selection
• xISSN and xISBN

However, the old library catalogue, accessible from the library homepage, should still be operational throughout.

Testing on library catalogue systems 20 Feb 2011, 7-9am

On Sunday February 20 2011 from 7:00 am until 9:00 am GMT, systems and storage testing will be run on WorldCat Local, WorldCat Navigator Group Catalog, OCLC Web-scale Management Services, WorldCat.org, WorldCat knowledge base and CONTENTdm. This presents possiblity of a small disruption to the library catalogue during this time.

Library catalogue interface unavailable Sunday 13 February 2011

OCLC will be conducting a maintenance install this Sunday, February 13, which is typically completed between 6-11 A.M., WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local will be unavailable during this time. This means that the Catalogue and CataloguePlus options on the library homepage will be unavailable. However your library account and the old catalogue interface will still be available during this time.

Stuart