Dawsonera down

The Dawsonera website is currently unavailable.  This is due to unforseen technical issues (are technical issues ever forseen I wonder?)  Unfortunately Dawsonera are unable to provide a time scale for when the service will resume, so I'm guessing it's rather serious.  But be assured they are working hard to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

**Update 20/06/2014**

Dawsonera anticipate that their full service will continue to be unavailable throughout the weekend.

DBS Library Annual Seminar

And now for something completely different...

We held what hopefully will be the first in a series of annual seminars on Friday 13th June (which is why we closed the library for that day).  We felt that it was a great success and it did seem to be well received.  Library staff (including your humble scribe) were among the speakers and if you want an idea of what we work on behind the scenes, you can find the presentations from the day here  

AS Library Saturday closures

It seems unfortunate that the most recent postings here all relate to closing a library for a while, but at least it's summer and most of you are occupied elsewhere. Anyway, Aungier St library will be closed on the following three Saturdays in July  

Saturday 12th July 
Saturday 19th July 
Saturday 26th July

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please note that Dame Street Library will be open until 5pm on these Saturdays

Aungier Street Library Closure - Friday 13th June

The Aungier St library will be closed on Friday 13th June to facilitate library-type stuff. Dame St library will remain open and Aungier will be open as normal on Saturday

A further short note about Passport

Not through Athens this time, or rather not just through Athens.  I shall quote our Passport contact

Passport is built on Windows platform and we do not support any form of Apple products. Users may be able to access Passport but intermittently, but a lot of the functionality will not work and we can’t guarantee a good service because we don’t support it.
We support Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox, but it works best on Internet Explorer.
If you use Google chrome on a Mac, you should be able to access Passport, but we can’t guarantee all the functionality. As we don’t support any Apple products, we cannot do any testing to replicate [any issues that may arise during of Apple products to access Passport]

So there you are. If you use Passport, best to do it on a PC.

Passport access through Athens

There is an intermittent problem (the worst kind of problem) with access to Passport GMID through Athens.

The issue not unique to DBS and is beyond the control of Euromonitor  in that the problem does not originate with them; it is related to an upgrade in software from Eduserv/Athens.  They are working to find a solution. 

The following options are thought to be useful in overcoming access problems.

• If you close the browser and open the page again – you may have success in getting into Passport.
• Refreshing the browser may help.

Building opening times June Bank Holiday weekend

'Tis the season for bank holidays.  Another one is upcoming, so here's a public service announcement of library and building opening times:

Libraries

Aungier Street
Saturday 31st May:		09.30-17.00
Sunday 1st June:		11.00-17.00  (to faciliate study for ACCA exams)
Monday 2nd June:		Closed
Dame Street
Saturday 31st May		09.30-14.00
Sunday 1st June		Closed
Monday 2nd June		Closed
Buildings
Aungier Street
Saturday 31st May:		08.00-18.00
Sunday 1st June:		08.00-18.00
Monday 2nd June:		08.00-18.00
Dame Street
Saturday 31st May		09.30-14.30
Sunday 1st June		Closed
Monday 2nd June		Closed
Castle House
Saturday 31st May:		08.00-18.00
Sunday 1st June:		08.00-18.00
Monday 2nd June:		Closed
Balfe Street & Bow Lane
Saturday 31st May		Closed
Sunday 1st June		Closed
Monday 2nd June		Closed

SPSS classes for Business Postgrads

One of my colleagues has done up a nice poster in pdf format, but somehow Blogger doesn't want to embed that here, so... here's a jpg instead (Thanks, Amye!)

Clickable sign-up link

Summer Opening Hours

From Saturday 17th May we are switching to summer opening hours.  As most, but not all of you are finishing your exams and swanning off for the summer, we'll be cutting back opening hours across our two libraries.  However as a few of you will be here over the summer, we will, as in previous years, maintain some evening opening.  Ok, less talk, more times:

Aungier Street Library Summer Opening Hours

Monday	09:30	17:15
Tuesday	09:30	22:00
Wednesday	09:30	17:15
Thursday	09:30	22:00
Friday	09:30	17:00
Saturday	09:30	17:00

Dame Street Library Summer Opening Hours

Monday	09:30	22:00
Tuesday	09:30	17:15
Wednesday	09:30	22:00
Thursday	09:30	17:15
Friday	09:30	17:00
Saturday	09:30	14:00

Enjoy your summer!

May Bank Holiday Weekend - Building Opening Times

Another bank holiday looms large on the horizon, so it's time to inform you of building opening times:

Aungier Street

Saturday 3rd , Sunday 4th  & Monday 5th  - 8:00am to 7:00pm

  

Dame Street

Saturday 3rd 9:00am – 5:00pm,   Sunday 5^th  & Monday 6^th   - 11:00am to 5:00pm

  

Castle House

Saturday 3rd   & Sunday 4th  8:00am to 6:00pm (Closed B/H Monday)

Balfe Street & Bow Lane

Closed

Both libraries will be open as normal on Saturday, and both are open 11am to 5pm on Sunday.  Do note however that the Dame St Library is open 11am to 5pm Bank Holiday Monday but the Aungier St Library is closed on that day.

Here's hoping you have an enjoyable and/or productive weekend!