Essential maintenance will be taking place in the Austin Pearce building between the 27th and 31st December 2010. A number of Library facilities will be unavailable or limited during this time.
The Library Catalogue will be unavailable, and you will be unable to renew items by telephone or online .
There will be no access to the NRCD Archive Online catalogue or the E H Shepard Archive Online catalogue.
Access to ebooks and ejournals will only be available through the Online Library page.
Athens, remote access and the main web servers should all be working, but please be aware they are at risk.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Please accept our apologies that you were so inconvenienced by the lack of access. We will pass your comments on to IT.
The announcement was actually made on 15th December, the date was changed to keep the post at the top of the news section on the Library home page.
Reduced Online Resources 27th – 31st December
My dissertation is due 4 Jan. It is appalling that on 23 Dec that you can make such an announcement. If the university can set disseration deadlines months in advance, then surely maintenance requirements can be made with equal forethought.
Typical public service attitude.
This is simply not good enough! Obviously, people who planned this did not think about the consequences! Student’s use these services most during this time of the year because of exams and c/w deadlines when the Uni reopens.
I myself have not been able to use ANSYS as the licence manager have not been able to connect to servers and have therefore been struggling to finish my final year group project report!
Not happy at all!