Wiley down August 7-8, 2010
Wiley InterScience will be changing their platform to Wiley Online Library this weekend. Because of this change, Wiley InterScience will no longer be available from Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 3am. Wiley Online Library is due to go live on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 12pm.
During this transition period anyone attempting to access the sites will see a message explaining the reason for the unavailability and will be directed to wileyonlinelibrary.com/info for more details.
We apologize for this interruption in service and will do all that we can to ensure a smooth transition to Wiley Online Library.
Do you Love Your Librarian?
Do you have a librarian here at the UH Libraries that has helped you numerous times and you are looking for a way to thank him or her? Nominations are now open for the 2010 Carnegie Corporation of New York / New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. The award invites library users nationwide to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college, and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Nominations run through September 20 and are being accepted online. Read more online.
Summer Book Club meets July 23rd
The Summer Book Club will be discussing Patti Smith’s memoir, Just Kids, in the Women’s Resource Center at noon today, July 23rd. The University of Houston Libraries is co-sponsoring this event.
USS Houston Blue Bonnets Now Available in the Digital Library
One of the exciting features of the Blue Bonnet collection is that it is full text searchable within the image. This will be a real help to researchers.
The Blue Bonnet was the shipboard newsletter of the USS Houston (CA-30), a World War II-era heavy cruiser that was named for the city of Houston. The Houston was sunk in 1942 during the Battle of Sunda Strait, and her surviving crew members made prisoners-of-war. This collection includes the ship’s newsletters from the years 1933 through 1941, although not all issues are available. The newsletters are part of the larger Cruiser Houston Collection, an archival collection that documents the history of the ship and her crew. The Blue Bonnet was revived after the war by the USS Houston Survivors Association and Next Generations, and issues from the 2000s may be viewed online at their web site.
Printing/Learning Commons UNAVAILABLE July 12th
The Learning Commons computers and printing services across the library will be UNAVAILABLE on Monday, July 12th for equipment maintenance and software upgrades.
Users may wish to use the Technology Commons lab located in the basement of the library (entrance in the back facing the University Center) on the 12th. Equipment checkout from the Learning Commons will be available.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Library Hours, 4th of July Holiday
The M.D. Anderson library will be open short hours July 4th – 5th:
July 4th – 1:00 – 4:45pm
July 5th – 1:00 – 4:45pm
Regular summer hours resume on Tuesday, July 6th.
Off-campus authentication moving to CougarNet
Due to security concerns about use of the Peoplesoft number to log-in to library databases from off campus, a CougarNet log-in will be required for authentication as of August 1, 2010. This will only affect off-campus authentication. If you do not have an CougarNet account or have forgotten your username and/or password, please call Campus IT at 713-743-1411 or go to http://www.uh.edu/infotech/php/template.php?account_id=57 . If you are faculty or staff of the University and use the University’s Exchange email system for email and calendaring, this is the same username and password.
Accessible Archives Maintenance 6/21/2010
Accessible Archives will be performing system maintenance on June 21, 2010 starting at 8pm. Their system will be down for approximately 3 hours.
Wiley Interscience Site Maintenance
On Saturday, June 19, 2010, Wiley Interscience will be unavailable from 7am for approximately 5 hours.
What was Houston Like in 1911?
UH Libraries is proud to announce that the Gladys Ewing Debutante scrapbook is now available in the Digital Library!
Click here to see the entire collection.
This is a scrapbook kept by Houston debutante, Gladys Ewing, daughter of Judge Kittridge and Mrs. Kittridge Ewing. The ephemeral contents of the album include invitations, notes, dance cards, and much more — all in the beautifully graphic, formality and color of the Edwardian period. Miss Ewing starts saving these items during the very formal No-Tsu-Oh Houston Social Season in the fall of 1911 and continues through the winter Mardi Gras celebrations, Krewe parties and such. She was, it seems, the premier debutante of that season and served as Maid of Honor to the No-Tsu-Oh queen.