Archive for February, 2009
ProQuest® platform maintenance will beconducted on February 21, 2009. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place for infrastructure maintenance. The window will begin Saturday, February 21, 2009, at 22:00 Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time. The following products will be unavailable:
- ProQuest platform products
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface)
- American Periodicals Series
- Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)
- CSA platform products such as CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences, CSA Sociological Abstracts
February 21st, 2009
Celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday online!
February 12th, 2009
SciFinder Scholar 2006 client software has been discontinued as of January 31, 2009. Users need to upgrade to SciFinder Scholar 2007; to get this version of the SciFinder Scholar client software for your computer, please contact:
- Josh Clark, Library Systems, Fenwick Library, 703/993-9006, jclarka@gmu.edu
February 11th, 2009
The company providing the Blackwell Synergy collection (all of the Blackwell journals) will be unavailable on Saturday, February 7, 2009. The company just announced it will be doing maintenance on its platform tomorrow, beginning at 9am (Eastern Time); maintenance may take as long as 12 hours.
February 6th, 2009
Mason Libraries welcome these new colleagues:
- Josh Cruciotti, Circulation (Fenwick Library)
- Rita Glazer, Copyright Resources Office
- Cynthia Holt, Head, Collection Development & Preservation
- Melissa McAfee, Head, Special Collections & Archives
- Lynn O’Hara, Serials/Circulation (Mercer Library)
February 3rd, 2009